COP and Climate Conferences

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 [...]

Are the objectives of the Paris Agreement realistic?

Never had humanity reached an agreement as advanced as that of Paris. Never before has it been so close as now to take concrete action to prevent Global Warming from continuing its increase. It should also be noted that for the first time such terms as those of the Paris Agreement, sponsored by the UN, [...]

Worrying aspects of COP21

Texts we have emphasized in the draft that begins trading on Paris, Sunday December 6, 2015. (Excerpted from the newspaper El Pais, Spain, signed by Manuel Planelles, Paris 5 Dec 2015 - 21:08 CET) We have read the draft agreements on COP21 and highlight these points of their content that concern us. In the midst [...]

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 [...]

The Protocol of Kyoto, Pandora’s box and Google

It’s the end of the fiftys, between fifth and sixth grade, times of great technological progress, times of the launching of the Sputnik, the first artificial satelite, or Laika, the first little bitch to orbit around the earth. Also the era of Professor Jaques Piccard and his Bathyscaphe Trieste, that strange-looking submersible artifact that for [...]

The Protocol of Kyoto died, house for sale in wonderful beach

I don’t know if it is that I’m too stingy or that the economic crisis has struck my pocket to harshly, but when I approached the little newsstand, the one where you place classified ads when you want to sell something, I redacted the cheapest piece of advertising the young man working at the newsstand [...]

Apology of the Earth

The title of this article is the name of a campaign I’m currently working on the social network Twitter, using paragraphs of 140 characters accompanied  images that highlight how privileged our planet is, emphasizing its geo-variety and the neat diversity of life that preserved in its air, soil and water. We should all know how [...]

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The Protocol of Kyoto went up to the roof

The conference of the parts on climate change has not matched the expectation it caused There is an old joke in which a guy who lives in Europe, e-mails his brother that has been living in New York for the last few months: “Your cat fell off the roof and died” said the e-mail. After [...]

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