Anthropocene

Leaders of the world’s eyes are upon you humanity

Revised September 2011 Monday December 7, 2009 has begun the long-awaited summit on climate change on our planet Earth, sponsored by the UN, alleged to commit countries to share decreased carbon dioxide and replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The bad news is that the US and China, the two largest [...]

The bubble of climate

When the 1851 Great London Exhibition opened in the spectacular Crystal Palace, the first building made from crystal and steel and ancestor to modern days’ skyscapers, thousands of visitors made a stop in Cyrus McCormick’s stand to admire it’s top of the line reaping machine, one that at the time had still to be pulled [...]

The bubble of population

While most of humanity celebrated the advent of the third millennium, very few co-habitants of this privileged blue planet realized that world population had doubled twice since almost the same date one hundred years back. At the begining of the 1900’s, world population was of 1,6 billion human beings, but that ammount rose, despite two [...]

The bubble of money

The bubble of Money is undoubtedly born in 1971, just 40 years ago, when during Richard Nixon´s stay at the white house, the US decides to break the relationship there had to be between Gold and the Dollar, paying no mind to the agreements reached at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in july of 1944, [...]

The four bubbles of the Apocalypse

Money, population, commodities and weather are, without a single doubt, factors that determine our daily future in the troubled world we have built for ourselves. An economic bubble has a life that ends with its bursting, which manifests itself with a sudden drop on prices, that only stops when it naturally (or artificially in some [...]

In novels about water there are many gaps

In our previous article we reveal the results of a study we did on several newspapers the spaces dedicated to environmental or ecological issues such as climate change, global warming, endangered species, etc. Our discovery was very discouraging, by famine we find in these “areas”. The next step we took was to give free rein [...]

For a fixed section of Environment in newspapers

We said in our previous article that ignorance in ecological matters, climate change and global warming is highly worrying and has much to do with the shortcomings of our education systems and the minimum centimetraje most media attach to these issues. In this post we promised our readers a study on the spaces newspaper in [...]

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