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, [...]
The bubble of commodities
We recently heard somebody say that prices of commodities have been rising for the last 10 years and that it would be about time for those prices to decrease considerably. The first thing that can be inferred after listening to this statement is that the person, who made it, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Economic Crisis + New Climate Crisis
COP17. UN Conference on climate change. Durban, South Africa, 2011 New conference, new location, new delegates, but it seems the results will be the same Between November 28th and December 9th, the seventeenth conference on climate change, sponsored by the UN will be taking place in Durban, South Africa. The [...]
The voices of Cancun
Revised in September 2011 One year has elapsed COP-15 Copenhagen 2009. Just concluded COP-16 Cancún 2010. Within a year will be COP-17, Durban 2011. Time flies at the same time the planet’s deterioration accelerates. Will we have enough time to win in speed to Mother Earth? It is not [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
COP 15, Copenhagen: a climatic tower of Babel
COP 15 COPENHAGEN, THE SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE sponsored by the UN, held in the capital of Denmark between December 7 and 18, 2009, has been concluded, with little glory and much sorrow. With three weeks to go, it was already known that the most important decisions would be [...]
COP 15 Copenhagen: the fate of humanity will be played?
Revised September 2011 From 7 to 18 December 2009 will be made COP15 Copenhagen Summit on climate change-tico our planet, sponsored by the UN. It still three weeks knows that the most important decisions have been deferred in advance for next year, because there is no consensus on a [...]
COP 15, Copenhagen is not a game … (I)
Revised September 2011 To begin shortly COP 15 Copenhagen, the Climate Change Summit hosted by the United Nations, to be held in the Danish capital from 7 to 18 December 2009, it is this opportunity to remind the curve “hockey stick”. This is a graph in which one of [...]
The Earth: a pollution department store
There is so much the variety of harmful products that we emit and so diverse the means that we harm that it is hard to inventory and fully understand the multiplicity of substances and factors involved in the damage, and much more difficult, if not impossible, to predict the [...]