what role does wilderness have in my life

To relate my experience to that of the Eskimo would be a gross exaggeration, through their way of life they make the concept of wilderness viable with human habitation, something that I may never claim to have done in my life, and it is an option open to increasingly few of us who inhabit the planet. What I can say is how my own native “wilderness” is due to change and how that will affect my life. The country where I was born, Venezuela, is due to increase on average nationwide about 3 degrees Celsius before the end of the century, possibly a noticeable shift by 2050. All credible research, in part funded by government entities such as the ministry of science and technology, point to an average temperature increase that will lead to aridification of many areas already affected by chronic drought, in a country that already knows of water rationing as a common place government failure, the situation is only set worsen. My father owns a farm whose river bed I have seen bone dry, pumped out by farmers and towns, and in a city of four million people I have seen the taps run dry, and hydroelectric power (70% of the countries electric output) cut off in rolling blackouts. Our farms is not part of the original ecology of the region it inhabits; nor is my city and its needs met by a balance with nature, but the lack of a global balance will affect the ability of our local biotic community to support us, and life is bound to become harder for those with no means, and more expensive for those who can afford a first world lifestyle, in the rotting tropic infrastructure of south America. I feel the effect of the change to my region, as do many places without the money, the means and the infrastructure to deny its effect by ameliorating them with oil and air conditioning. My people will not be able to install a nationwide fridge, and the Eskimos cannot install a nationwide freezer. Americans will find a way I’m sure, and if someone doesn’t end up quite rich from creating “solutions” to climate change I will be very surprised. But it will be my ineffective government, not the hyper capitalist American delegative democracy, that fails to fashion a market solution to a moral problem, and it will be the poor citizens of the third world, my estranged countrymen, who will be at a loss of what to do with their dried out fields and pastures. Far south of these farmlands lies the rich Amazon, with its vast water systems and expanses of forest. Brazil might have the luxury to protect it, even though they plan to use the aquifers and hydroelectric power prodigiously, but for how long will Venezuela do the same?