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 [...]
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 [...]
Are the objectives of the Paris Agreement realistic? GalleryAre the objectives of the Paris Agreement realistic?
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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 [...]
The first surgeries performed on me, Earth
Earth Monologues - 02 Here I am again, floating around the Sun, circling the Milky Way, trying to guess in my indefatigable routine their next steps. Between each turn about myself today I want to tell you to the Out of Africa II, the last great exodus of you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Protocol of Kyoto walks like a lost soul out there
From some time now Joseph has not been able to sleep well. It was he who placed that economic little note, those in the supply of twelve words, “has died Doña Protocol of Kyoto sell beautiful beach house”, as recounted two years or so ago, part of a trilogy [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When the end of the world is not fiction
Revised March-September 2011 Japan is in its worst tragedy since the end of World War II. What is happening to the generous and industrious Japanese people exceeds the fertile creative minds of the most unlikely and amazing movies or science fiction novels. The catastrophe that is in [...]
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 [...]