The greatest comedian of Colombia, Andrés López, wrote exclusively for Diners magazine humor a brilliant piece on global warming. Lefty vision of a tragedy that lurks. Recreation and leisure photographic camera Mauricio Vélez. Show only to Diners.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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The greatest comedian of Colombia, Andrés López, wrote exclusively for Diners magazine humor a brilliant piece on global warming. Lefty vision of a tragedy that lurks. Recreation and leisure photographic camera Mauricio Vélez. Show only to Diners.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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The Prisoner's Dilemma
An ominous paradox reason that leads to collective destruction
The tragedy of the commons, enunciated by Hardin, shows that what belongs to everyone, to no one and is likely to deteriorate completely
MANUEL PRIETO DIAZ
Police arrested two suspects of a crime, isolates, and suggests everyone the same treatment: "If you confess and your accomplice chooses not to speak, he would fall 10 years in prison and you go free. But if he confesses and you decide not to, the conviction will be for you and freedom for him. Even if the two decide not letting go, we will let you go after a brief arrest. And, if both confess, both be condemned to six years. "The Prisoner's Dilemma is a fascinating and sinister paradox well known and studied game theory in which the prisoners tend to confess and that whatever the choice of another, the punishment always confessing is reduced. Unfortunately for them, both choose to betray and two receive long sentences. A result known as suboptimal.
This dilemma shows that although from the perspective of the group it would be best to cooperate, rational egoism leads them to do so. behavior of which there are many examples in the present and serves to illustrate the tragedy of the commons, a concept created by biologist Garrett Hardin in 1968 and could summarized in the phrase so internalized in our values: what belongs to everyone, to no one, why not throw the paper on the floor if that comes back will do the same?
Hardin explained it to families of farmers who own animals share a common grazing. So when you consider adding one more animal to his herd They weigh the benefits of doing it themselves (+ 1) and on the other hand, the damage that overgrazing will for the community and for oneself. But in this case the consequences are shared by all, the negative utility for each farmer to take this decision is only a fraction of -1. Therefore, according to Hardin, Always Faithful decanting just by adding more animals and thereby ruining all the grass.
Since Hardin Sciencie article published in The tragedy of the common, the situation has shown signs of improvement and the ordinary - the water, fish stocks, forests, shoreline or street furniture continued supporting unsustainable pressure. In this context it is very enlightening to final essay by Jared Diamond, Collapse, where he talks about how societies choose to fail or succeed. The geographer quotes tragedy of the commons and the prisoner's dilemma to show how in the past various human societies, according to decisions taken in times of crisis, have been preserved or have followed the path of extinction. The parallels to this are disturbing. Diamond presents cases catastrophic Easter Island, Norse Greenland and the Maya culture, and compares them with the civilization of Pitcairn and Henderson Islands, the Inuit of Greenland and Iceland. Why the first
expired, and the second managed to survive? According to Diamond - who won the Pulitzer Prize with his first essay on the causes of the wealth of developed countries, Guns, Germs and Steel ", there are five factors that influence
the possible extinction of a company's attack enemies, loss of support of friendly societies, climate change, the social, political or religious because of these changes and human impact on the environment. Only one of these factors is capable of causing a catastrophe, but there is no doubt that the combination of two or more constitutes an imminent danger to any society.
The well-known example of Easter, isolated from the rest of the world, with food resources and aquifers very meager and, in particular, dominated by a divided society that puts the competition to build ever-larger statues, it seems a metaphor for our planet. Because of the various factors that led to its decline, the irresponsible action stands environmental human.
In its effort to erect monoliths more impressive than those of their neighbors, their inhabitants do not hesitate to completely wipe out the trees on the island, especially with a giant plant variety which depended
stability of its ecosystem. And Diamond concludes that, like the ancient inhabitants of Easter Island, we could not escape the Earth in case of such a disaster. "If I caught that fish or let my sheep eat the grass - Diamond writes," another fisherman or herder will anyway, so that makes no sense to refrain from abusing me fishing or grazing " . The correct rational behavior is to exploit then the action before the next consumer can do, even if the end result may be the destruction of the ordinary and therefore the damage to all consumers. In fact, although this logic has led many community resources are over exploited in excess to be eliminated, others have survived after having been exploited for hundreds or even thousands of years. Exaggerate "Diamond in the diagnosis? From the field of environmental protection is no shortage every day voices that give the reason or have a more troubling scenario: "This planet is home to 20 to 100 million different plants - Joaquín Araújo says the naturalist, author of Echoes ... logic, to understand the ecology-, 25% of this vast wealth is in danger. Each day, for decades, from one to 140 species may be fired for always avoidable expelled by human activities. A rate to be compared with the average extinction per year has been the rule that there is life on the planet. Consumption is exacerbated at the base of the problem: at the current rate, the collapse is literally guaranteed half a century before.
The glass half full But there are voices critical of the geographer prestige to put emphasis on the bottle as half empty. One is Gregg Easterbrook, who from The New York Times believes that Diamond writes about books "Extraordinary in erudition and originality," but also "say exactly what they want to hear postmodern culture." Are we depleting the planet and everything will fall apart suddenly? "Not necessarily - consider Easterbrook. U.S. Deforestation, terrible in the nineteenth century, was reinvested in the twentieth century. And our current oil consumption, analysts observed a century ago, would be considered impossible. In short, Diamond, no big deal. " Even
specialists and Partha Dasgupta, professor of economics at Cambridge University and one of the most important figures in environmental economics (which has defended in most cases conservation positions) are in agreement with Diamond. Dasgupta considers brilliant analysis on the causes of the collapse of different societies throughout history, but harshly criticized his speculations on the future of human societies. Economist wields two reasons: the direct and simple extension to the future of past conditions, and not include benefits that cause environmental damage in the analysis. For example, Diamond, fertilizers are only sources of contamination, but does not include the enormous gains in food production that have resulted in our recent history. What alternatives would
then to not get caught in the prisoner's dilemma and that this is not, make it a tragedy for the common good? Los distinct specialists agreed that the cooperation with the other - although parezca ineficaz rationally, would be the only way for avoiding self-destructive spiral.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF THE CATALONIA
In 2009 CADS celebrates 10 years of its establishment and the willingness to recognize the career and together partners, organizations and citizens who have made possible the advancement of social, environmental and economic situation in Catalonia, we invite you to participate in the process of defining challenges for the sustainability of Catalonia .
the end of this process obtained a document that will integrate the process elaboration of the Strategy for Sustainable Development of Catalonia.
challenges for the sustainability of Catalonia includes five knowledge areas: Climate change and energy crisis, New views on economic models; Rethinking the region and promote diversity, environment, society and health and management natural hazards.
http://www.reptessostenibilitat.cat/index.php
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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The Catalan Association of Environmental Sciences (ACCA) and the Catalan Society of Land Management (SCOT) have organized Dialogues '09 Environmental to discuss major environmental challenges of the country from five face to face between two specialists focusing on different vectors.
http://www.sostenible.cat/sostenible/web/noticies/sos_noticies_web.php?cod_idioma=1&seccio=6&num_noticia=443737
This article discusses the socio-economic model, others do not stop being interesting.
Friday, April 24, 2009
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Sustainable 17-04-2009
Daniel Gomez and disseminating environmental activist Cañete Also over 70% of global emissions of CO2. Surely these numbers grow if it also counted consumption and indirect emissions for urban areas that need work.
In the future, this trend is accentuated. According to the International Energy Agency, by 2030 cities will consume 73% of energy and emit 76% of CO2 emissions. For when it arrives this year, 60% of the world population will be "townie."
other hand, is in developing countries where they are giving the highest rates of urbanization. The concentration of population in cities is occurring mainly in Asia and Africa. The trend is the same all over the world, but the fact that urban development is greater in some countries provides clear opportunities to promote a less intensive in resources planning.
But just look at the developing countries. Do not forget that the highest energy consumption per capita (and also the largest CO2) occurs in industrialized countries, and in these, the average consumption in cities is only slightly lower than in rural areas.
Ideally, the major urban areas of rich countries should follow a diet very energy-saving, efficiency and renewable energy. This not only involves a substitution of energy technologies, but by a redefinition of uses in the area that contributes to decreased dependence on energy and materials in large cities. Some have already started this thread the needle.
The greatest obstacle to convert the progressive urbanization of the world population in an improvement of sustainability is our growth model. In China, the city dwellers consume almost twice the energy in rural areas (and yet per capita consumption of a Chinese child is three times that of a European). Ideally urbanized with sustainability, minimizing the need for mobility and the transfer of materials and building homes that produce negavats. But beyond anecdotal projects, are looking at the mirror in which people in developing countries? Probably to get in sooner, and at any price, to material well-being that we have enjoyed hitherto rich countries.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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"Enough! The rural population of Catalonia is experiencing a threat! For centuries the people playing the bells every hour, the cows, the sheep and horses carry cowbells to the neck, the rooster crows at dawn and shit sucks (as it can not be otherwise).
Lately there has been a great increase in population townie "post modern" about rural tourism for "fresh air" and "living nature". This should not be a problem if it were not for some of them, Town Councils and builders are putting in danger the work of farmers and ranchers. It seems that the bells and cowbells "bother" the turkey "callers" too tractors and "hindrance" to the road, according to some City Council does not fulfill some rule to be removed from the sleeve.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
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Since 2005 Catalonia power dependence compared to the has tripled since the new foreign sources of production have not increased their own in the proportion of consumption, according to the College of Engineering in Civil Engineering in Catalonia. Catalonia will not come next year to 3,000 megawatts (MW) wind which provided the energy plan but there will be 2000 now only work when 420. The school requires a review of government targets and growth rates of 2006-2015 energy plan and decided to boost renewable energy, new combined-cycle and the renewal of contracts of exploitation nuclear power plants, a decision that this should take the state government.
El Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos Catalonia calls for revision of the plan in light of "the failure of the program planning" and to the growing trend to increased electricity imports in the country although the rate of increase in consumption today is lower than expected because the plan . In this sense, the college has done an analysis of the situation recalls that imports represent 18.8% of the electricity consumed 3.5 times more than just 4 years ago. Without making any mention of the long strikes that have taken the two nuclear plants in recent years by incidents added to the fuel refills, the college attributes the decrease in electricity production in the fall in production hydroelectric plants and coal and fuel oil, which have not been replaced by new renewable and thermal. In addition, indicate that increased consumption will remain, for example, rail transport and new water production plant. The college estimates that these two sectors could reach 10% point increase in consumption because of the operation of the entire line of high-speed train (TGV) and new desalination plants, and reuse of water pumping. In view of this diagnosis, the agency requires priority measures of energy saving and efficiency, and diversifying the supply of electricity production centers, placing particular emphasis on renewable energy but without stopping nuclear power.
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In fact, analysis that makes the school look so pretty obvious claim the role of nuclear power as a guarantee of supply in Catalonia as output to cope with future climate change. Firstly remember that Vandellòs Asco I and II and II cover 40.8% of gross electricity demand in Catalonia. Continue by saying that electricity production comes from Catalonia in a 89.4% non-renewable energy such as nuclear and thermal coal or fuel oil. I still remember that 10.6% renewable up to 79% is hydroelectric and wind, solar and biomass represent only 1 remaining 8%. Joan Lluís Quer, head of the committee water and energy of the college, admits to Asco and Vandellòs recent years there have been "episodes that have questioned the safety" and that can not be 'separate nuclear power from management exquisite. " However, the final position of the body is defending the renewal of contracts for exploitation of central Spain, the first of which will decide the English government in July with Santa Maria de Garona. Directly the college defense nuclear energy as "the best alternative energy scale is not station greenhouse gases." Finally, civil engineers also require that the Govern espanyol ja l'decideixi emplaçament of magatzem centralitzat of Waste radioactius that S'ha to build a l'Estat.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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response to growing world's energy needs could be in the wind. This renewable could be exploited in a more effective now how to make wind mills, which use only air currents near the ground as they often have an average height of 80 meters and rarely reach 150. Except in very windy places, usually, the wind speed at 80 meters above the ground is 4.6 meters per second. A 800, however, air moves much more quickly, alcanzando 7.2 meters in the second half of an encrypted offering exceptional breathtaking possibilities for the production of electricity.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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At the risk of opening a debate parallel to the original, with thematic but different approaches, I copy here three articles begun before uploading the interview earlier and continued later. The first is an open letter by Santi, his opinion on the subject, the other two, I put them as comments on this because they are Responses:
then I explain that this text has gone through three phases mental. The first was a stream of insults made alone with his hands on the wheel of a car, the second phase was much less in these insults and a sketch of the ideas for which I had the need to vent me with insults in silence . The third phase is that you can read below:
Forum Su Milena Velba
The interview itself is on page 12 to 17, but the article is also interesting continuation landscape. Oh, and there is one about electric cars, our friends who allegedly have to save your ass as long as we are not against all sources or channels of transporting the electricity needed to operate them , although some not believe does not come out from under the stones:
http://www.ree.es/sala_prensa/
web / inc / fichero.aspx? path = Journal / pdf & file = b4txkogqilf7.pdf
Prepareu-vos els per rant not to the MAT, hehe.
Friday, February 27, 2009
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parell of fragments A memorable:
The Revelion of the masses, Ortega y Gasset
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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sustainable Quan deixa Ciutats them from a simple theory urbanes Les zones viuen a nivell d'proces an unstoppable global expansion. I Estadístiques indicate that 70% of the population in Europe, America and Oceania is already close to urban and global 50% of the population lives in cities. Similarly, despite representing only 2% of land area, cities consume 75% of global energy demand and emit 80% of emissions of carbon dioxide. With these data as it is clear that any way to move towards global sustainability must happen as a priority to improve urban areas.
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Güssing Green Cities: energy production for local consumption ... and sell! Güssing is a village of 4,000 inhabitants, capital of the region of the same name, where 30,000 people live. Located in western Austria, near the Hungarian border, in the last twenty years has gone from being an underdeveloped area to become the European reference model for local energy production and economic growth to be ' arise.
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BedZED: the London district without CO2 emissions (almost) BedZED is a residential one hundred homes, plus offices and small workplaces, built in south London between 2000 and 2002 with an ambitious goal: not having to use any fossil fuel for daily life. The result has not been as successful as expected, but nevertheless has become a model district.
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Växjö, the 'miracle' to reduce CO2 locally Växjö in southern Sweden, has become one of the leading centers in the implementation of renewable energy, both theoretical - the university has several specialists in bio-and, above all, practical. Right now, renewable energy already covers more than one third of the needs of the city and are planning to reach 50% in 2010.
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Freiburg, the capital of ecology Freiburg, the region of Baden-Wuntemberg is considered the capital of the ecology of the European Union and has become a benchmark as ecociutat a model. Located on the right bank of the river Rhine, near the Black Forest and the borders of Switzerland and France, the German city with more sunshine, and it has more solar panels on the continent.
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Ecocity World Summit: the city of the future will be sustainable or not Ecocity World Summit will be the 7th (World Summit on eco-cities) held in late April 2008 in the Californian city of San Francisco (USA), hosted four hundred delegates scientists, technicians and politicians from a seventy countries.
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Ecocity World Summit: Realistic Proposals for more sustainable cities The common denominator of the proposals submitted to the conference was to improve the design of cities to achieve a reduction of resource consumption and energy. In this pointed one of the most innovative ideas: the city based on the concept of fractal.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
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has become evident, throughout this debate, my demand for social responsibility and respect for our individual actions and their consequences both individual and collective, and the observation that the political class is often used as a Turkish head to refuse to accept our blame.
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L'home has sigut Lluita des Capac social base, toujours l'amb ajut of group leaders with Visionaris, per aconseguir allo that i Volia which for many centuries seemed a utopia, very commendable. This quote was written before the world war and dictatorship, and now it seems that his sense is again in force. It seems, according to this writing and according to the general perception that we struggle to make decisions that affect public life and society in general and small print of what affects us personally. " But really it's all true? If we are specialists in claiming all the pleasures and all the luxuries, but when the truth is very few people willing to participate in community decision making. We have created a democratic system more or less functional people chosen to delegate this responsibility by the people. Every four years, if we are not too lazy, we get off the couch and put a piece of paper inside the urn is often choosing between the lesser evil, then let things develop along its course and carrying our things. And when suddenly things go wrong, it is because of these energumens democratically elected because we think and manage our society. Now where is my friend statistic gives a blow and I CopyPaste of the newspaper last Friday:
"The survey, which took place in December 1355 people with a margin of error of 2.72% also shows that the majority of respondents - 54.1% - approve of the job of the government, although 48.3% of them admit they do not know how to solve the problems of Catalonia.
Almost 60% of respondents admit to be little or not informed of the activities of government. A similar percentage said that politics cares little or nothing. Test data is given in response to several questions.
For example, when asked which parties form the government, it is right only in 48.7% of the sample. 29.2% do not rightly say that 21.5% do not know, and 0.6% did not answer. Only 0.7% of respondents answered correctly when asked what dates were the last regional elections held on 1 November 2006. With regard to parties with representation in Parliament, only 21.5% right and it says there are six groups, while 19% mentions five, and leave citizens. "
We were able to exercise worthy of psychological study:
consistenix The first phase of creating an abstraction from flesh and blood people with a job, some charges and some specific actions. Take this group of people and finds their common denominator: they are politicians. And that is enough to create an amorphous mass with no names, homogeneous, pasteurized and manageable by the intellect as a clay tablet in the hands of a parbulari.
The second phase involves taking this class called Plasticine poítica and contrary to the exercise of abstraction, namely, to shape it. In this case ogre that color asqueros result of mixing different colors of plasticine wrong, huge, fierce, and evil as the most evil of the films and Walt Disney.
Result: We have the perfect head of Turkish as the cause of all our misfortunes.
I believe these surveys show very clear our complete disregard for everything that happens around us and that we can affect, not until a crisis knocks on the door and says good morning. And even then all you do is blame for something that has been devoted to ruin everything while we I was at home quietly dedicated to making our life.
We spend the day calling for citizen participation, democracy, and we pretend that things are done well and made chocolate for everybody. That, my friends, does not fall from the sky. The first step is to know whom we have responsibilities to make decisions concerning our lives, and if you want to retrieve this responsability, be willing to sacrifice it entails. I agree that the democratic system we have left much to be desired, but is not change so that: expressing ourselves from time to time without really knowing or against whom, when they do something we do not like.
Catalan society has already been mobilized once for a specific reason and it worked that affected both ended up doing a cultural immersion to demonstrate that they know how to speak the plain of Vic. We all remember the case of Pascual, the threat of boycott gloval stop buying milk Catalan, and the rectification of Pascual exaggerated to the point that planting in Gurb mamotreto on TV and teach their commitment to us. The power to change the things we both like the political face of the business. If we use it because it gives us the appetite.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Now with the Red Degrowth (perhaps provisional name), retake the path with renewed energy to build a broad and strong movement of people, groups and projects that can launch a new way of living.
network as autonomous space, which wants to maintain its independence, not asking grants or has its own legal status. Nor has a list of members or partners. What we have is a range of projects and ideas, some of which require a push to become a reality.
We know there are many people who support the movement decrease, but not everyone has the time or find the appropriate channels. With this text we want to provide a more participation and through financial support and / or cross-species and local projects.
This call is linked to the call that we are spreading so that projects that meet certain criteria may request and receive support. In supporting the call for projects also explain how these funds are awarded, by what criteria and what decisions. You can read the text:
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
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El Pais,
one way or another, the 120,000 activists from around the world at the World Social Forum (WSF) held in the Brazilian city of Belém is on the left. Of all the left: ancient and modern. Some left without horizons which brings together old Leninist new environmentalists, anarchists with black flags, progressive priests and even associations of prostitutes. Many left with one question: what to do with capitalism? And a novelty: for the first time, none of those left burned American flags, as in previous editions of this meeting, designed as an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland). Which now takes place in Belém, than in previous years seemed to be dying victim of neoliberal euphoria of a world richer than ever before, has risen to power thanks to the global financial crisis, which has changed the distribution of the deck.
"socially responsible market"
The second trend, more moderate, is defended by one of the creators of the forum, Oded Grajew, who proposed as an alternative to the system that has broken the it calls "socially responsible capitalism." Instead of the free market, calls a "socially responsible market with a more participatory democracy." Not reject the existence of private enterprises, but always points out, "that are socially controlled."
Besides the question of what to do with capitalism, another question sounds hard Belém Forum: Where were the governments of the world those billions of dollars now are removed from the sleeve to save the financial system and of lacking when it came to investing in education or health?
If since its first edition in 2001, the social forum was presented as a counterpoint to the Davos, this year's antagonism could not be more clear and precise.The Workers' Party (PT), which governs in Brazil and the forum is accused of having given up his roots left, has mobilized 3,000 militants to prepare a climate conducive to the arrival of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who this year has chosen to attend the meeting instead of at Belém in Davos. According to some of his advisers, it seems that President arremeterá hard against capitalism and against those who caused the financial crisis.
has not yet been confirmed Lula's participation in the debate scheduled between the landless and the presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Bolivia, Evo Morales, and Paraguay, Fernando Lugo. The MST, apparently, has not invited to Lula, con quien MAINTAINS numerous differentials.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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, ie, not in my backyard) . If you want to build a prison in town, organized a platform because that is not built in this town, no question that there must have prisons, it is simply placed in any other place. The same happens with a focus on drug addicts, a road, a train, a power line, a landfill, a wastewater treatment plant. Consistently exercised the right of action against non-essential to the development and future of the territory it seeks to defend.
Someone wanted to see in these movements a sign of maturity of a society that is able to defend their rights. Conversely, I am inclined to think that this phenomenon responds to other causes that have as common denominator the distancing of the citizens of the public, which may be a source of social irresponsibility and should seriously worry about. In turn, as collateral damage, it denatures the movements are based on the legitimate aspirations a better distribution of burdens or discomforts to territorial actions or proposals that raise critical choices clear improvement on the projects in question, improvements that may affect the environment, landscape, etc.. before, for example, each neighbor clearing his sidewalk because it was considered their duty to clean the sidewalk today costejats municipal services through taxes paid by citizens. It is an obvious progress, but the road may have lost sight of the process, its costs and limitations, and become visible only at the right service. We are having a real country rights and duties to unreal that there are only rights. And without a balancing of costs and responsibilities, rights have neither roof nor measure. The predictable result
against the proliferation of movements is the NIMBY stalemate. A no to everything. But it can not be a luxury that is no longer within our reach. Today the land is flat and is also smaller. And in a more open and more tight, take advantage of resources and reduce the impact of shortages can mean survival. Catalonia is not an exception can not be indifferent to international concerns. On key issues such as energy, water and food, have clear weaknesses, for scarcity and external dependence that we have. The 2008 report of the International Energy Agency raises a disturbing scenario, a future of higher prices, and concludes: "Time is running and the time to act is now." In food, the FAO has launched the challenge of doubling global production on the horizon of 2050. Even former U.S. President Bill Clinton recently declared the need to return to a policy of maximum agricultural self-sufficiency. It seems a reasonable target to optimize the potential of energy self-sufficiency and improve the level of a strategic asset such as food, something only can be done with water.Given these objectives are fully reject any reactions that transform the environment. They just declared illegal a few windmills (the few we have) for a lawsuit filed by an environmental organization. The irrigation systems are put in question because they impact on the steppe birds, when Spain is the country with more wilderness in Europe, after Russia. No doubt should be avoided unsustainable impacts, but not the way to go with a view back. This is an error that hinders the dialogue on the scope and objective basis for solutions. We arrived late to consider that, without more, is not modify the natural environment in which we live. The history of mankind is the history of the transformation of the environment to suit the needs of man. Currently available technology and awareness to manage natural resources sustainably. This is the path.
NOT A contradiction in thinking that sustainable progress will require artificial measures, aimed specifically at ensuring the natural balance of a planet so conditioned by human action. One living area, with proper management, is the best guarantee for its preservation. Contrary thinking is not sustainable that we can not do anything. Unless you intend to reduce of radical or the planet's population drastically sacrificing the quality of life. If this is not meant the denial in its purest form becomes unconscious or mere hypocrisy.
The economic crisis creates problems, but can also be the opportunity for political power from the tick expressly set forth rigorous discourse of austerity, the sense of objectivity and lack of power, opening step progress by way of the realities imperfect but better than the previous criteria of balance, with costs and benefits. A cultural change needed on which to establish a public commitment to the future.
El Periódico de Catalunya, 27/01/2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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"A company should work with us Isofoton, and told us not to give us this help, "says Jordi Miralles, head of the Terra Foundation, dedicated to promoting efficient use of energy. It is an example of reducing aid to these institutions face.
"We are seeing an increase in non-payment of membership fees. In the same way that when there is crisis stop paying the mortgage or buying fewer cars, we see an increase in the return of the receipts, "said Juan Carlos del Olmo, secretary general of the WWF / Adena." When problems occur economic, the first cuts are for the field of environment, because people seem dispensable. We are who most suffer. Instead, the loyalty of solidarity NGO members with photos of the sponsored child, "he added.
Juantxo A similar view López Uralde, executive director of Greenpeace." Last quarter we had difficulty making new partners and increase low. "Greenpeace grew 3% in 2008, but hoped to win 5% of members (has 103,000 members). Meanwhile, shares Depana frozen, but invited members to make voluntary contributions, says its director Manel Cunill .
In this context, WWF / Adena, SEO / BirdLife and Friends of the Earth have called on the Government to increase aid revenue from personal income tax (box other purposes.) "In 2008, NGOs were given for first time this kind of help, but it was a very small, miserable, and must be expanded," says Juan Carlos del Olmo, secretary general of WWF. Del Olmo estimates that revenues are key to a time when "the defense of the environment is vital and necessary than neck, powerful NGOs as needed."
Entities and WWF are prepared to overcome a crisis, they have a wide range of fientes of income that allows them to gain freedom (finalists aid companies and savings banks, international foundations, global network WWF, government, 50 major corporate partners, partners and donors). No clutch, the Achilles heel of the partners are fluctuating.
NGOs will see reduced aid d ela Obra Social Caixa Catalunya, which has developed a policy of purchasing land for conservation and support for conservation projects and environmental education through
try to maintain than programs and projects to continue the work of conservation and environmental education that we have set ourselves, "says Jordi Sartagal responsible for what now called Territory and Landscape area. The cut is viewed with concern by social sectors that value the real action (recovery of species and habitats) of Territory and Landscape, away from typical marketing makeup green. Por eso, piden mantenga ese spirit and that it is not desvirtúe SENSE moved to its original creation. LA VANGUARDIA 24/01/2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
What Does A Purple Spot On Skin
Another example of energy dependence: From Russia move the little finger and between Bosnia and Serbia 200,000 people remain without heating. And all because the great artery of its natural gas supply has stopped for unclear reasons and interesaos unknown ... (of course in the hands of four companies that have their hands on welfare and perhaps even the survival of these people and engaged in playing blame to each other to avoid the responsibilities and keep the profits)
I'm not saying we should let it all collapse and Eastern Europe since s'espabilaran if they die of cold, but we both know that the only creative as ever do is hold us what we already have at gunpoint if necessary, as hysterical and started screaming when we need instead to ask why and seek alternatives. Or maybe it was not foreseeable that by putting all four hands in energy supply could go something like this?
few days ago I read a very short book that I found very childish and written without much grace or technical background but the message is interesting. "Whoever has been Llevado my cheese?" That raises the fear of change and solutions to address it. All but apparently very Obie and proves, people need to be told, and after missing the conduct ...