Echoes Across the Border
A year to be specific was in the year 2157-Young Miguel Sanchez is wake wake up in an unfavorable environment as the earth is turned into an unfriendly environment for nature majorly due to pollution. His parents both being scientists working on terraforming, had always told him the Mexico – their native country – as a symbol of a better life. These are the stories that Miguel was being told as child about this country with jungles, mountains of snow and strong people irrespective of the circumstances.
One fateful day, when Miguel was just twelve, his parents received an unexpected opportunity: and the beginning of an interesting scientific investigation to go to Mexico to study how sustainability and environmental management principles have been included into organisations of the country. Miguel is over the moon and scared at the same time then he is enrolled into a suspenseful life-changing process going round the theme of home and the human being as well as the whole humanity.
As revealed by the setting of the novel the trip to Mexico was more of a theme park of perils. During their journey traveling in the solar powered research ship across the Atlantic they get the visions of the former world – the sea filled with plastics, the cities devastated by climate catastrophes and deserted, people struggling to live in the ruins of the previous world. But among the blend of hope and complicated feelings, Miguel had his parents’ hope and the ‘New Mexico’ that was concrete possibility and light.
After a long voyage getting to the coast of Mexico, what the Miguel together with his family saw was not only beauty they have seen in pictures but also a society that to a certain extent was unknown to them. In as much as this is concerned, technology complemented tradition. The communities built structural structures with environmentally friendly raw materials that had an interior structural look formulated from renewable sources and the buildings had big natural end walls that were genuine green walls.
The more Miguel got to know about the country’s essence, the more he found himself in front of ruins, which told the story of a society that actively practiced the principles of sustainable living before the disasters that struck the earth happened. As taught by the local elder and scientists, Miguel obtained the potency of working with nature through bioengineering lessons from native plants, aquaculture systems of producing food to replenish the existing ones instead of taking more and the communal ways that enriched both the earth and its inhabitants.
However, as Miguel fell in love with the beauty and the wisdom of Mexican culture he also found out that some unpleasant realities exist. The careless leftover of multinational corporations, which once profited from the land and soil; the marginalized and struggling groups of the society; the political conflict over distribution of resources – these three factors put Mexico on the brink of volt face.
Various incidents in the story let Miguel learn that the evolution of humanity does not presuppose submission of the people to the authorities but the ability to live as equal with nature. Thus, encouraged by the spirit of Mexican people and the lessons of his parents, Miguel went to heal the society, to become a mediator between people separated by technologies and to combine fractured communities and nations.
At last, Miguel’s main lesson was not about finding his country, Mexico, but he was discovering himself. He came to the prize that home is not a building, but it is the agreement to protect the Earth for the generations to come. Regaining resolve, Miguel pledged to bring Mexico’s teachings to the world and start a change in the consciousness of the entire global population.
That was the last time Miguel was in the shores of Mexico with the dream in his heart watching the sun that sets at the horizon of the sea. Its multicolored murals presented the conveyors of Mexico’s future and past to the world as the latter desperately yearned for a rebirth beyond the border.
**'Echoes Across the Border” : The novel is one of adventure and discovery as well as a call to citizens of the world to respect and protect God’s land.
Miguel's journey to Mexico:
Miguel Sanchez from childhood listen to stories of Mexico from his parents, a country his parents left, a paradise of flourishing ecosystems in a world where ecosystems are degrading. He forgot the lively jungles of Mexico, the people’s tenacity and sustainable living as a culture as he forgot the dream when one wakes up.
This is the state of affairs on the eve of May 9 in the year 2157: Climate upheavals altered the world to provide base continents without inhabitants and half-starvation populace. At seventeen Miguel erased the proof all the large cities that were coming apart into bits and pieces of failed developing societies that his outlook presented to the world were gagging on exhausts and soot.
Fortunately, the young man had the chance to assist his parents in their research trip to Mexico regarding practices of Mexican environmental sustainability; Miguel did not miss the opportunity. The trip was an odyssey on the aqua-phoenix crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a state of … Fuller solar powered research vessel cruising in the waters stained with the .....
Right from the time that I set my first foot on the Mexican territory, I was more than thrilled. The latter was as though the air specially purified, the colours like the page which has been turned in a book of fairy-tales; the earth seemed to have stirred in its sleep. The cities were a work of art in ecological architecture, and green walls enshrouded buildings and shining photovoltaic panels coated all visible area, the buildings themselves depicted vibrant markets that offer healthy foods from nearby hydroponic green roofs.
Thus, following the Mexican scientists and wise men, Miguel plunged into the country’s fabric of knowledge. The concept of agroforestry farming was picked from the Zapotec farmers in Oaxaca where the farmers grow crops while accompanied by large trees that have existed for centuries, thus supporting the community and conserving the environment. In the state of Chiapas, he learned sustainable water supply systems that existed among the Mayan people in which collection systems of aqueducts and water reserves provided supply to the villages in the dry season and without exhausting the sources of water.
However, at the same time, Miguel saw the problems that Mexico was going through. Indigenous peoples could not afford up-to-date gadgets and on the other hand, metropolises were already being victims of post-industrialization or in other words corporate imperialism. He listened tales of survival and rebellion, of the ordinary people struggling for their rights and against the aggression of global power holders in the context of the concern for land and its proper utilization.
Thus, with the increase in knowledge, the sense of duty by Miguel also increased. He understood that Mexico’s lessons were not only about the conservation of the regions, but also the care of human relations, the strengthening of the character in the face of failure or any other misfortune. Due to such camaraderie and spirit of innovation that he witnessed, such images surfaced in Miguel’s mind: the world where everyone and everything was connected and bridged, not separated; the world where knowledge instead of divisions was the primary driving force towards the creation of the sustainable environment.
It is not only a group of amazing travelers going on research excursions and community meetings, but also a boy named Miguel thinking during the time that he has for himself. Mexico was no longer just a place to visit, but it felt as if it was a part of him, something that gave him the motivation to go on. He understood that these are the lessons which he received – about an interdependence of nature and technology, about the cultural values that lie in the foundation of sustainable development – these lessons are not his to keep but to spread.
Before leaving the country, Miguel had feelings of appreciation and commitment on an ending note on his Mexico experience. Reaching out for the shores where the Pacific Ocean was singing a song of the soft sand, he to himself promised listening to the echoes of the Mexican wisdom only. Miguel was not only taking memories to home with him but also a purpose of being an agent of change to mend that split, to be that voice that would awaken the world and help in creating a world where people and the environment coexisted.Subsequently, Miguel Sanchez was making noises not only for the demand of sustainable and united global society. All these formed policies, evoked innovations, and directly established entity associations that cut across borders through his experiences in Mexico. The story that started with a boy’s interest became a history – a history of learning, acceptance, and the ability to dream of the world without hatred and prejudices.
Far from being a mere adventure story, **”Echoes Across the Border”** is a story of triumph of the spirit and the possibilities of cooperation in ensuring the protection of our world as we know it.
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I hope that this continuation develops Miguel further and conveys the experience of a change that he goes through in Mexico.