My birth was in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, in my early years I grew up near the industrial area of Guadalajara which leads me to my first memories are those large industries, the question I asked myself at my young age was if those large fumaroles were pollutants, even with a very short conscience I remember asking how polluting was that smoke that sometimes I saw coming out of cars or factories, Even of the trains since many arrived in that area, the conclusion of my grandparents and parents was always the same that if they were polluting but that the trees were responsible for that pollution.
Although in the downtown area where I grew up my early years the pollution was not so marked, but as soon as I moved to the Tlajomulco area it was very different because living near neighborhoods like Santa Fe the culture of the people was very different, you could walk down the street and see people living in sheet or cardboard houses, You found garbage in the streets since people threw their garbage into the street indiscriminately, it was a totally different type of culture nobody cared if their streets seemed to have tons of garbage It was like going to another world where poverty and deprivation took over the streets and therefore the pollution looked more abrupt even the rivers that carried the water from the pipe were rivers huge and totally contaminated.
My life from my childhood to my now adulthood has been full of great contrasts, but I think that at this point it is impossible to change the culture of the people, however I believe that we can change this reality little by little with small humanistic acts.
