Anthropocene

The electric car and the thriller of the year 2020

By using clean energy instead of fossil fuel, the electric car is the most effective tool to meet the main objective of the Paris Agreement, such as limiting the increase in global warming to 2°C from its pre-industrial level. For this, the transcendental document indicates that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be reduced until they [...]

Wind Power, unlimited, clean and efficient

The main objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit the increase in global temperature to no more than 2°C, from its pre-industrial level, by the end of this century. To achieve this key objective, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced until they are completely eradicated. Through the premise “Zero fossil fuels” is intended to replace oil, [...]

Pioneers of Climate Change

At all times and in all sciences, there have always been visionaries, those people who anticipate situations long before other persons can glimpse them. This is the case of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician and physicist, who in 1824 calculated that an object the size of the Earth and with a similar distance [...]

How to be an activist of Earth and not dying in the attempt

It is to be recognized that in the last ten years attention has been increased on such important issues as global warming, climate change, elephant killings or the Paris Agreement, but there is also much to be done. For example, a short video of a poor lady falling down some steps may have ten or twenty [...]

Why we do celebrate Earth Day? What is a Geo-Almanac?

Earth day is celebrated because there are intelligent life on Earth. That easy. On planets, without thinking beings presence there is no possibility of celebrating anything since there is no one who can do it. Instead, in this little blue point lost in a corner of universe, which from millions of light year distances is [...]

Borneo, a history of an ecological catastrophe that has not yet ended

Some scientists say that what is happening in Borneo is the largest and fastest man-made ecological catastrophe in human history. Greenland, with its 2,175,600 km2, is the largest island in the world; New Guinea, with 792,500 km2, is the second and Borneo, with its 743,330 km2, ranks third among the largest islands on [...]

Cubagua and its Early Human Predators

The story referred here are unusual, but very well documented events, occurring between 1515 and 1545, which are equivalent to a small laboratory, a sample of what today was happening on a large scale on Earth. Few people know what Cubagua is, except the Venezuelans, and yet most people do not know the [...]

From historical ecology to the Anthropocene

“We have already changed the Earth: the Anthropocene is the time when humans can change the life cycle of the planet, when humans bring the planet out of its natural variability” By Sandor Alejandro Gerendas-Kiss Published on March 08, 2017 Scientific agriculture had been implemented in the United States since the second half of [...]

My story told by me, the Earth

Earth Monologues 01 I am a very privileged planet. They cannot imagine how proud I am to have such important and as smart as you in my area guests. Nor Divine pleasure I accommodate the widest variety of species in the universe. It is not like this? Or do you know any planet that has [...]

Biosphericide

A Bio Big Bang on our planet A Bio Big Bang on our planet The biosphere, along with the atmosphere, are two inseparable entities of the Earth, a system in which each needs the other to exist. That thin biological sphere composed of water, soil and air full of life, has been there [...]

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