This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.

Sustainability is humanity’s North Star. —Hannah Ritchie (2024)

Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay

U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals ask countries, regardless of their wealth, to promote people's prosperity while protecting the planet

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that responds best to change (Charles Darwin)

We humans are predators. We target more than a third of the vertebrate species. Pet trading, medicine, and other uses now affect almost as many species as those targeted for food, and we threaten almost 40% of exploited species.

According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) we waste up to a third of the food produced. Only in the European Union (EU), with about 450 million inhabitants, eighty-eight million tons of food end up in garbage dumps every year. That is close to 200 kg of food per inhabitant.

New Zealand—antipodal of Spain—with 4.5 million people, has fifty million sheep, more than ten sheep for every human. The municipality of Lorca, in Spain, has about 96,000 inhabitants and one million pigs.

More than 50% of humanity already lives in cities. In China, this figure reached 67% in 2024. This fact, together with the slowing rate of global population increase, could represent an opportunity for the recovery of a part of the planet's surface to a state like its original condition, prior to human transformation of the land.

Yuval Noah Harari, in his book Sapiens: A brief History of Mankind, coined the term "ecological serial killer" to describe our image in the eyes of other living beings. Since the departure of our species from Africa, this image has not improved—quite the opposite.

Each extinct species because of human action, including those that we will never know about, is associated with a cost impossible to calculate. I refer both to the moral damage and the economic cost. Scientists discover around 20,000 new species every year, but they still expect to discover about 85% of the world’s animal species.

We function as if resources were inexhaustible and there was no impact in dumping waste under the carpet of the surface of the land and sea, into the air, and even into space, which far from becoming the final frontier can become the most recent garbage dump.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

"We have created a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." E.O. Wilson.

Are we humans a cosmic coincidence in the universe of possibilities that might have happened?

Hominins and Homo (IV) / Homíninos y Homo (IV): Homo antecessor skull reconstruction / Reconstrucción craneal de Homo antecessor The...

About two million years ago, the body and brain size of the genus Homo species increased considerably.