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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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Climate Emergency (X): Future
David Attenborough and many scientists tell us that we have already surpassed the threshold of planetary stability in four areas: 1) climate change; 2) fertilizer use; 3) land conversion; and 4) biodiversity loss.
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Apr 28, 202316 min read
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Climate Emergency (IX): IPCC & 2023 AR 6 Synthesis Report Highlights
Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020.
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Apr 21, 202312 min read
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Climate Emergency (VIII): World Energy Outlook 2022 Report Highlights
In merely 122 years, emissions have multiplied by a factor of about 10, while the world population has grown about 3 times. We are three times as many humans as in 1900, using each one of us, every year, on average (but with huge differences between rich and poor countries), about three times as many fossil fuels as any person did at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Apr 14, 202311 min read
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Virtual tour of Mars
Paseo virtual de Marte Mars. Jezero crater and delta / Marte. Cráter y delta Jezero Hello, I invite you to a virtual tour of Mars thanks...
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Apr 13, 20232 min read
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Climate Emergency (VII): Health Impacts & more
Overlapping with the beginning of industrialization, the modification of this current began in the nineteenth century. However, the changes in the Gulf Stream have sped up since the 1950s
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Mar 31, 202311 min read
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Climate Emergency (VI): Ice disappears and sea level rises
The Northeast Passage winter navigation could allow an increase of Russia’s exported natural gas from thirty-two million tons in 2020 to eighty million in 2024, and to 130 million in 2035—precisely what the environmental doctors ordered, and the planet needs.
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Mar 24, 202311 min read
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Climate Emergency (V): Tipping points
Data from forty-three countries indicate that between 1991 and 2018 the deaths due to heat increased from 20.5% to 76.3% of total deaths in the warm season, affecting all continents.
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Mar 17, 20239 min read
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Climate emergency (IV): Steel Bones & Concrete Muscles
Our society is fed with fertilizers, is supported by steel bones and concrete muscles, its blood is diesel and gasoline, and its skin is plastic. All of them are made with fossil fuels.
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Mar 9, 20238 min read
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Climate Emergency (III): CO2 Emissions per Citizen and Country
Africa emits less than 4% of global CO2 emissions, although it has about 18.6% of the world's population (2024 data). On average, a U.S. citizen consumes in four days the electricity that an Ethiopian use in the entire year (2). Only twenty countries are responsible for the bulk of greenhouse emissions. USA, China, and India are the three leaders of that group.
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Mar 3, 20239 min read
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Climate Emergency (II): Temperature rising
Average temperatures rise, glaciers melt, sea levels rise, plant cycles alter, snow and rain patterns change, and the intensity of extreme weather events, such as major storms and historic temperature records, increases.
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Feb 24, 20236 min read
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Climate Emergency: Why? - Emergencia climática: ¿Por qué?
Seventy thousand years ago Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia it transformed itself into the master of the entire planet and the terror of the ecosystem (Yuval N. Harari.)
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Feb 17, 202312 min read
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Evolution carries on (III), Overpopulation, and Fertility
Longevity is related to economy, even in the most developed countries, like the U.S.A. that is not a good example of life expectancy in comparison with other developed countries.
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Feb 10, 202310 min read
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Evolution carries on (II): Adaptation, ingenuity, and population growth
Not all human adaptations to the environment stem from its radical modification by our species or from genetic mutations. We are a resourceful species, and our adaptability increases because of our technological and cultural capacity.
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Feb 3, 20236 min read
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Evolution carries on / La evolución continúa
We have frequently adapted the nature to us by radically modifying it, but our species also changed since it left the African savannas.
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Jan 27, 20238 min read
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Religion (VI), Enlightenment, and Science / Religión (VI), Ilustración y ciencia
According to Edward O. Wilson, science and religion are irreconcilable.
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Jan 24, 20237 min read
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Religion (V), Economy, and Inequality / Religión (V), economÃa y desigualdad
In Europe, the church was the biggest owner of properties during the middle ages. No single noble or king was richer than the church.
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Jan 20, 20236 min read
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Religion (IV): Submission, Wars and more / Religión (IV): Sumisión, guerras y más
With the growth of religions, they became cosmopolitan organizations with the same forms of functioning, hierarchy, and content anywhere.
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Jan 17, 202311 min read
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Religion (III): Explanation, Appeasement, and Consolation / Religión (III): Explicación, Alivio y Consuelo
Religions grew in complexity and changed their main functions with the changes from hunter-gatherer bands to tribes, chiefdoms and states.
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Jan 13, 20238 min read
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Religion (II) and Darwinism / Religión (II) y darwinismo
One inconsistency in religions is the belief of an almighty god and at the same time, on an evil being who annoys the god as much as he can
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Jan 10, 20235 min read
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Religion: Evolutionary justification / Religión: Justificación evolutiva
Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that knowledge erodes
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Jan 5, 202311 min read
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