Plastics: We can't live with them; we can't live without them.
This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.
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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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Feb 299 min read
Food: On the impact on the environment and biodiversity
Sustainability is humanity’s North Star.
—Hannah Ritchie (2024)
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Nov 10, 20233 min read
Progress in Health: First Chikungunya Vaccine
Aedes albopictus—or tiger mosquito—can transmit Chikungunya and Dengue
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Nov 3, 202312 min read
Future (III): Our dreams will finally come home to stay
Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay
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Oct 27, 20236 min read
Future (II) and Sustainable Development Goals
U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals ask countries, regardless of their wealth, to promote people's prosperity while protecting the planet
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Oct 20, 20237 min read
Future (I): Respond well to changes
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that responds best to change (Charles Darwin)
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Jul 7, 20238 min read
Biodiversity loss (VII), Anthropocene or Eremocene
We humans are predators. We target more than a third of the vertebrate species.
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Jun 16, 202312 min read
Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet.
Biodiversity loss (V). We are devouring the planet...
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Apr 28, 202315 min read
Climate Emergency (X): Future
Emergencia climática (X): Futuro David Attenborough According to David Attenborough, this may be the future of a person born today (1):...
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Apr 21, 202312 min read
Climate Emergency (IX): IPCC & 2023 AR 6 Synthesis Report Highlights
Emergencia climática (IX): IPCC y Aspectos destacados del Informe de síntesis AR 6 de 2023 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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Apr 14, 202311 min read
Climate Emergency (VIII): World Energy Outlook 2022 Report Highlights
Emergencia climática (VIII): Aspectos destacados del informe World Energy Outlook 2022 The International Energy Agency (IEA) published...
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Mar 31, 202311 min read
Climate Emergency (VII): Health Impacts & more
Emergencia climática (VII): Impactos en la salud y más Despite all the evidence, statements, and commitments on paper, drilling projects...
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Mar 24, 202311 min read
Climate Emergency (VI): Ice disappears and sea level rises
Emergencia climática (VI): El hielo desaparece y el nivel del mar aumenta The New York Times developed an animation showing the extent of...
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Mar 17, 20239 min read
Climate Emergency (V): Tipping points
Emergencia climática (V): Puntos de inflexión Edward Hawkins, a climatologist at the University of Reading, has developed an interactive...
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Mar 9, 20238 min read
Climate emergency (IV): Steel Bones & Concrete Muscles
Emergencia climática (IV): Huesos de acero y músculos de hormigón In 2021 the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a report...
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Mar 3, 20238 min read
Climate Emergency (III): CO2 Emissions per Citizen and Country
Emergencia climática (III): emisiones de CO2 por ciudadano y país As could be expected, CO2 emissions are not related only to the...
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Feb 24, 20235 min read
Climate Emergency (II): Temperature rising
Emergencia climática (II): Sube la temperatura There have been times in the distant past when temperatures were higher than those...
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Feb 17, 202312 min read
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...
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