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Living seated on a mountain of corpses

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Dhaka.   Thousands people are working into the building full of the chaos, materials, machinery and finished products. For a miserable salary hours of intense work, suffocating atmosphere and no hope for a better future; their future is working for survive themselves and their sons. In a building made without accurate, oversaturated of workers, machines and merchandises, it is manufacturing the western dream of products cheap, beautiful and without responsibility. But one fateful day the dream was truncated. The advertisement of engineers, noise of structure and movements of building didn’t serve, responsible of the production didn’t want to lose time and money; and suddenly building took away the life of more one thousand people . But actually these thousands and millions people of the so-called in developing countries haven’t life for so long. The industrial revolution in the XVIII century appeared redistributes human labor. Usually people associate industry with factory...

We must change the way we see energy

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What does it mean Renewals Energies ? Strictly nothing, energy is used and never comeback. When we refer to term renewal, this term design a kind of energy which has sources that are regenerate in natural form. It can be a good definition for more people and very similar of majority of definitions in internet, but Oil , for example, can entry in this definition: today Earth continues making oil; in other side Geothermal Energy that is including in renewals category, in fact it doesn’t: geothermal is due to the potential energy of all Earth material had before formation which warmed interior of planet when joint then, volcanoes and earthquakes are cooling slowly the earth because there aren’t any energy input, except of nuclear and gravitational tidal both of very inferior order. So what is due that we believe the reverse of what they are? Essentially because oil consumption is much higher than the capacity of its formation, so much that we can consider today Earth don’t make; and...

Are 400 ppm of CO2 the border to beginning the Armageddon, or not?

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At last we arrived at 400 ppm of CO 2 in the atmosphere .  Two decades of conferences, commitments and challenges don’t stop the growth of CO 2 atmospheric concentration. But we aren’t listening celestial trumpets or seeing angels armed with fire-swords down from heaven. It’s true, the predicted Apocalypse doesn’t start yet, but the barrier of two times the concentration of CO 2 of pre-industrial age is significant not to be a round number bur it had never exceeded in the last 600,000 years . However importance is that in first we are entering in ‘ terra incognita ’ with respect to fossil records, and second ours mathematic climatic models are out too of confidence interval; and now anything unforeseen or expected can happen. What does it mean Terra Incognita? As I explained in: Really are temperatures stopping its rice , climate models are a set of nonlinear differential equations and as such are very conditioned to the boundary conditions; this determines the calculation ...

Why oil and coal consumption is growing day by day?

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Greed may explain many of the incongruous things that humanity tends to do. With complete certainty in the caves there were some Mr. Scrooge and all kinds of people trying to take advantage of the work of others or no interest in community affairs. But it would be simplistic to think that our problems come from selfish attitudes, all things considered many of the mistakes and atrocities in history were made thanks nice people with good intention added to ignorance, and record of stupid actions has that was making for love. But surely the little of selfishness that we all have, which individually doesn’t affect because most people behave when it is the moment honestly and generously, acts collectively producing really disasters that historians of all times trying to analyze and understand. However there are the most important elements that produce much more damage in my opinion, and we don’t usually deal with because they are part of our normal functioning, at the same time we believe...

Fracking, I can’t understand anything?

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Today have we faced an energy crisis? No Today are we in front of climatic crisis? Yes So, do we must extract energy at any cost? NO, NO and NO Why we have this obsession to extract oil, and other hydrocarbons, from anywhere and at any price? No there are deeper see, higher mountain or sacred site where if it has one drop of oil exits one company that want to take it. Doesn’t matter how deeper they must drill or how many square kilometers will need raze of forest, fields or villages, for oil is allowed all.  Night light of gas burning in air Not too long ago, in time of financial debauchery, when oil was very close to peak , prices of it rose to levels unseen and demand seemed that had unstoppable. In this context, with renewable energy in its early stages and people in the midst of madness of wasted energy, among others, Fracking might seem a solution because higher prices of oil turned it into cost effective. But today when oil producers reduce their extr...

The Perfect Storm

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Title of a movie that was the union of three storms at once and fishermen who need the money makes them be more convenient to the sea, which pays for life. But this isn’t the reason for my writing today. What I talk about is the storm that comes close to humanity and as figured ostriches don’t want to see (topic of Ignoring the Evidence ).   We are currently undergoing the rigors of a crisis that leaves millions of unemployed people around the world. Our politicians are still stuck in their useless solutions. Neoliberals postulate remove regulations and protections, conservatives savings until the last consequences, ansd socialists to spend all money that we haven’t. Tested all three things separately and at the same time and the result was the same: we have gone worse. They don’t realize that the paradigm they knew is gone (or was a lie), but they are still stuck because that's all they know. But back to the storm, or three storms converged to be exact,which...

Who holds the smoking gun?

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The Guardian has reported about conclusions of US summer drought where NOAA will publish an inform that dissociate Climate Change of this catastrophic event, but after others news say contraries and it insists in a bad interpretation of inform that it’s very ambiguous in its conclusion. The controversy appears that the attribution is a conjunction of normal causes that occurred simultaneously and catastrophic. In other words, drought must have been anyway without Climatic Change.   Climate Change couldn’t be the guilt of summer drought, it’s possible . In fact climate determines weather but it doesn’t do the weather. Weather has own dynamics, not only it’s due to climate but it’s modeling by local and regional boundaries. There is a think that climate change will change the weather but this will not be happening exactly. Tomorrow it will rain similar as today or yesterday. The different will be frequency, intensity and geographical distribution. Today it can snow in Sahara...