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Despite everything, it's Christmas again (2020)

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This year 2020 has been an atypical year. It’s the year of the pandemic that’s not unusual in human history; in fact it happens more or less every 100 years. What has been unusual is the treatment: instead of letting the natural selection, that the immune systems adapt (as they end up doing) and that the mutations of the same virus lower its lethality (this is what happens to the virus, for survive virus is not interested to kill its host); for the first time it has been decided to fight the virus. Nothing went well . Many people have lost their lives, others their way of life. It said: crises bring out the best in everyone. Unfortunately this has shown that this isn’t true. To the efforts and dedication that a small part of the population has done, the rest we have responded with protests and complaints; the five minutes of daily applause do not make up for the demonstrated lack of collective responsibility. Each claim, complaint or denunciation we could read implicitly "only f...

The Andromeda Strain

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Mankind pain an epidemic every century. This is something that we can’t avoid because natural selection works in all living beings. People have to choose between die of illness and die of hunger. Usually ignorant prefers to die of illness because thinks it selves immune. Unfortunately poor chooses the same even knows that is the target of illness. The Andromeda Strain is a novel written by Michael Crichton in 1969, where relates the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism. Novel ends well because microorganism mutes to inoffensive and the threat finished. Luckily the alien entrance has an invention but the protocol showed in the history is very likely as protocols proposed if this case could happen. Michael Crichton cheats a little; the mutation doesn’t work like he wrote, if not both organism, the deadly and the mutation, live together; note the mutation eats the plastic from the laboratory protections, so both a...

COVID-19 is here to remain with us

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This variant of the cold is of simple infection as any cold and almost dangerous as the flu. A simple virus is showing us the door of dystopia, when in fact the only thing that shows is the fragility of existence and human power A widespread film genre is that of major catastrophes. They are usually horror films with impossible solution but one that is at the last moment and miraculously. Much of its success is usually the end, which reaffirms human capacity to solve problems as long as we turn to the best human values: solidarity, unity of action and collaboration. In the end these films are an apology of the human spirit and the viewer leaves the cinema with the pride of to be of own species, this is the key to success. One such catastrophe is pandemics. The possible scenarios are diverse but the plot is usually very similar: an ultra-lethal virus which for human reasons (terrorism, neglect, conspiracies ...) overflows the healthcare services and there is no remedy; spr...

The prophets of the doom

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In 1997 after two years of negotiations some countries signed the climate protocol in the third climate summit in Kyoto. Twenty-two summits after the ridiculous advances fade away like the fog. In the time of climate disasters denial is strong as never and carbon industry grows desperately. The title is the name give for Donald Trump to the climate activist. Despite we are far to the doom, really doom is getting closer to us every day. However economy is turn its eyes and insists to give the same advices about how we are to tackle the future. Economy is kidnapped by the money and these at the same time by the oil. The prophets can be annoying when say that you wouldn’t listen, especially if you know that they are right . The storm is here Why economy doesn’t want to listen to the prophets? This is the real question of the climate mess. If a new virus takes prominence, world make all the necessary measures to front the illness; in the other way endemic illness is hi...

The lost decade

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We are arrived to 2020 without any of environment and climate goals achieved Today we passed to new decade. The last days newspapers and magazines make reports and extrapolations about how our world would look in the next 30 years. Some are optimistic, other give more alerts about the future; but too much seem that lives in other planet. If we see the last 30 years, we see a humanity worried about how it can grow but forgetting that planet is finite. Planet haven’t infinite land to build infrastructures, haven’t infinite air to store our polluted gases and infinite space to hide our trash. When media publish about what we must do in the next 30 years, but they forget what we hadn’t been able to do in last 30 years. Australia fires - people trapped in beach   When I began to write this blog, many people told me that we must write in positive. Well, I’m not the most joyful of person of this planet. It’s too much hard to talk in positive about future in the current cont...

A white year (Christmas 2019)

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Yes, look at the list of publication i've seen that this is precisely the preceding Christmas last year. It is no surprise because this year I have not written anything. The truth is I did have a lot to say but little desire to tell them. Trash Mountain (Sunday Observer - Sri Lanka) It's been a difficult year, with forces changes and not all too positive. That did not normally entail too much trouble: rethink goals, deadlines, actions, new ways ... but the overall context does not help. The human stupidity has surpassed me . I am not someone positive or optimistic, I am always feasible and prepare for the worst possible outcome. Contrary to say a lot of people, it is always easier to manage a positive surprise than a negative. I'm wrong like everyone else, really more than them, this is perhaps the only quality that defines me.  But if anyone as silly as I am, could see that we are just like hamsters, running in an eternal wheel without leaving where we ...

The human stupidity

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COP24 was the next fail of world governments to revert the mankind’s fall to hell, in summarize.  Too many times we think that politics live in a crystal ball, and what they see as a reality is something very far of current people. Really politics have a different point of view about the world, have more information than current people and a wide context. They must take decisions that will favor the majority, not for today but the next month and years. In other hand the painful decisions are often misinformed to the public, sometimes they would sell them as good, other times they hide the real reasons. Our weak Planet “ Real Politics ” is the difference between the ideals and what they can do. When I wrote “ Absolutist heritage ” I talked about the real impossibility of global control on by the absolutist monarchs and how administration makes this real control of countries now and then. Administration is the eyes, ears and executor arm of government. Administration dec...