Climate crisis in Central America: Media tour in Honduras
Joining the Hungarian Association of Conservationists, Éva Antal, the content creator known as The Canvas Bag Girl, is participating in a fact-finding mission. The aim is to gather personal experience with an international team about the climate change situation and the social and economic conditions of the given area in a target country belonging to the Global South. Aside from these, it is also among the goals to get to know the environmental protection organizations working there and to report this credibly in our country too.
The climate crisis further reinforces existing social inequalities and injustices, which mainly affect indigenous communities, smallholder farmers, women, children, the elderly, and the sick. The concept of climate justice strives for a more balanced global distribution of the burdens and opportunities of climate change.
The Hungarian Association of Conservationists is working on this topic with its partners because they wish to draw general attention to the fact that different countries and regions of the world, as well as different population groups within societies, are affected by climate change in different ways. Much of the responsibility lies with the Northern Hemisphere, but its effects are mostly experienced by the Southern Hemisphere. In Central America, small farmers are hit by extreme weather caused by climate change, such as droughts, storms, or heavy rains. This results in crop failure and food insecurity.
For this very reason, a new episode on the popular channel of The Canvas Bag Girl is being launched, in which she travels to Central America, specifically to Honduras, to show us how we affect the processes of a remote vulnerable country and also how we are affected.
“Honduras, along with the surrounding Central and South American countries, such as Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, or Ecuador, are often referred to as banana republics.
It is in these areas that much of the beloved banana, coffee, and cocoa that we consume in Europe are produced, while the agricultural workers who produce them work on the plantations in indecent conditions for very little pay. I try to point out these economic and social problems through my camera," said Éva Antal before the trip.
"The fact of human-caused climate change is becoming more and more obvious to the public. However, there are many misunderstandings about which are the faulty system rules that have caused our climate to be disturbed. Such study tours help to draw people's attention to both individual and community responsibility." - summarized Krisztina Nyolczas, a responsible member for the program of the Hungarian Association of Conservationists.
You can follow the trip on the following channels:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MTVSZ
https://www.facebook.com/mtvsz
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtqNEyhcBMVPFvAAwRcleKw
Following are links to the English press background and its summary in Hungarian, which provide a deeper insight into the topic:
www.mtvsz.hu/uploads/files/GameOn_2023_Media_toolkit_Central_America.pdf
www.mtvsz.hu/uploads/files/Honduras_magyar_osszefoglalo_GameOn.pdf
Hungarian version of the Press Release: