tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69365222232049710072024-02-20T17:12:59.894-08:00Dedicated to GaiaWe live in a blue little planet which turns around a medium star in a little solar system, on the outskirts of a medium galaxy which has billions of stars, and which belongs to a universe made up with billions of billions of starts. So... do you realize how tiny and fragile we are?Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-5342551284869090682013-04-13T02:10:00.000-07:002013-04-13T02:10:01.732-07:00Revulsion buy Leo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That's what I feel when I sometimes read something about my human mates. I don't know in another countries but this is one in which sometimes is normal to get agreements by shooting, crooking or trampling in the most literal meaning of the word. I many times think that most of us have the head just for wearing a hat. This is Franska's story...<br /><br />Thanks Leo for the information you provided me some years ago.<br /><br />Who killed bear Franska?<br /><br />Franska had many enemies. Sheperds said she had killed more than one hundred sheeps around the villages of the area. At the Pyrenees, where brown bear became extinct many years ago, there's no much food for a plantigrade in need of fat in order to survive the winter. She was never welcomed. Her mate, Palouma, was killed by an "accidental shoot" some months after having been released. Both Palouma and Franska were taken from Slovenia to the French Pyrinees thanks to a European programme for reintroducing bears in such place, a program wich in 2007 was declared as failure.<br /><br />Franskwa was found hit dead by a car. At the beginning it was declared as an accident as Palouma's shoot but the autosy revealed that someone was in charge of making it look like an accident. It was finally accepted that the she bear was intentionally hit by a car... twice. But the most "curious" is that... before being hit by the car... she was shot several times... perhaps accidentally also...</div>
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<br />The autopsy also revealed another secret: Franska was 17 years old. She was not 7 as the Slovenian Government said when she was given with the aim to repopulate. A difficult task to such an old bear.</div>
<br />Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-71312933519135446382012-09-24T15:20:00.000-07:002012-09-24T15:20:41.138-07:00Uncomfortable Truths: Why Spain Is Different<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Some of you will wonder: what did Mr José say? First, he said a thing that is in the thought of many (hopefully many): "The big infrastructures lend themselves to corruption more than other public business but of course they are more photogenic, it is, to cut the tape or lay the foundation stone before the elections is for some politicians far more necessary than modest and transparent investments in education, culture and healing. " </div>
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On the other hand you have some facts that are not so promoted. I don't know if it happens because of neglect or because somehow they are uncomfortable truths... "According to the Worldwatch report a highway carries 2,500 people per hour, a bus line from 5000-8000, a tram or bus with a dedicated lane10,000 to 20,000, and the subway and commuter rail transport 50,000 people per hour, 20 times more than a highway. ". </div>
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Now the question is: who matters that? Hei man, let things go hang...<br />
<br />Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-41053665037909637602012-07-26T14:38:00.000-07:002012-07-26T14:38:07.109-07:00A Question Of Indecency<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Some years ago, I thought my heart had hardened as regards to animal abuse. Let's say I was "vaccinated" against bullfighting, bulls killed by spears, tortured using darts, throwing goats from bell towers and any other barbarity to which I was supposed to be used to (as a Spaniard of course).</div>
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But there was not. Although I had heard all kinds of atrocities on the subject of fur coats, I had not understood the magnitude of it until I saw the video that now I leave you bound. It was so terrible.... so hard to watch it... I could say there are two parts: the first one shows how animals are hit and the second, among other methods, how they are literally skinned alive and left to themselves until they die in the absence of their skin. Do not miss the expresion of the animal when it is aware of the absence ot its skin. </div>
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But how can we be so swine? I think the one that makes the coat is as indecent as the one that purchases such a coat. Do any of these people, if they can be called people, know the meaning of the word dignity? I have no words, acts of similar caliber can only come from the unworthy, lacking in grace, indecent and lack of ethics and respect for life for which there is no gauge. In the world there are religions which provide that the evil that you inflict will be returned. I hope that this rule is applied to all those who collaborate with such indecent carnage, that Life will return the evil they have inflicted. </div>
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Here's <a href="http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-clothing/chinese-fur-industry.aspx">the link</a> to have a "good time". I think it is only suitable for those who still defend "fur coat theory". The only thing I ask for now is that this information doesn't fall on deaf ears. </div>
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Happy summer to everybody.Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-31109018471448862602011-11-23T01:12:00.000-08:002011-11-23T01:12:19.840-08:00See You Later<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2wvMtLYzICVxnTmwG7mX8HKdtKhLV1s9QCm74WAyb7T61byyARIZglDKuSgcVOkCYW7np5syucJfP58VspzoItv5nvs-6xy_hrmeNgwM5JED2hYg4Mek-3Exv2US67IZZq4yFC8vEmkr/s1600/android-force-closed-loop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2wvMtLYzICVxnTmwG7mX8HKdtKhLV1s9QCm74WAyb7T61byyARIZglDKuSgcVOkCYW7np5syucJfP58VspzoItv5nvs-6xy_hrmeNgwM5JED2hYg4Mek-3Exv2US67IZZq4yFC8vEmkr/s320/android-force-closed-loop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This blog is closed up to a new order. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-91013645930806179852011-10-28T04:57:00.000-07:002011-10-28T05:12:59.732-07:00Mails To The Director<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwHv1gr-sQ_ddXh_wFyTy_X1i2ZLYzbsrpkw9r9rA717YqY2XLpk9vC03KwAchz_7nyMSPgjBDSlH6CoT3plnbTOci48mkB4E4VunyMruUSQxz2Tdfhvpy-mTOaogA9krvwI1zEHKdfGmK/s1600-h/cartas.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094219568894666194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwHv1gr-sQ_ddXh_wFyTy_X1i2ZLYzbsrpkw9r9rA717YqY2XLpk9vC03KwAchz_7nyMSPgjBDSlH6CoT3plnbTOci48mkB4E4VunyMruUSQxz2Tdfhvpy-mTOaogA9krvwI1zEHKdfGmK/s320/cartas.jpeg" style="float: left; height: 130px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 105px;" /></a>The articles I usually post come from my thoughts or different pieces of news I read from time to time. And as in any job, there are more productive days than others or worse: there are days which are not productive at all. So I take advantage of that more productives days in order to write the posts and let them in a pile for when necessary (it is, days without any idea or nothing to say).</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">With respect to an article I posted some time ago, Ardorín, a friend of mine, made a comment who brought to my mind a piece of news which I had piled. So my friend, here you have a mail which was written to the persone in charge of the newspaper El País. The mail was edited in May 27th, 2007. the author is Nicolás Fabelo González, Galápagos, Madrid, who makes a reflection which I think is very interesting and which should be in the thoughts of everybody.</div><br />
OUR FAULTS ARE OURS NEVER<br />
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Traffic accidents have increased: it's roads fault, missing signposting, weather conditions... but never to blame for people who aggresively or madly drive, never to blame for those who show off driving at 180 km/h; perhaps is better to criticize those who drive according to the law...<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Junk TV consolidate its leadership on TV media but it's not our fault. We have to claim on TV chains as there is no room for cultural programs, maybe we also have to claim on politiciens for not giving a proper answer to this issue, maybe it will be the inherent cultural poverty of the capitalism but... has anybody thought that TV chains behave as markets? It is, they only sell what it is bought... has anybody thought about the gossiping and coarsing spirit of many individuals of our society who being idle in their sofa practise an absolute power on their remote control?<br />
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Climate change is worsening: We should claim on transnational companies, on predator capitalism, the EEUU government, etc, etc... but never claim on those who overuse their SUVs just for a box of Cokes, those who set their heating system at 26ºC or the air conditioning at 17ºC, those who never will understand that winter has been created for being "cold" and summer for being "hot".<br />
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Many shameless individuals who have got loaded thanks to the destruction of the environment and spreading around the urbanistic chaos... so we should claim on the world of politics, on the defects in politics which rule the use of the land, on the capitalism rapacity... but never we should claim on those who are far more interested on the last signing of their football team than in the management of their comunity or municipality.<br />
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Summarizing: Our fault is never our fault, devil seems to come from politiciens, business people, journalists or from that dark abstraction called "the System".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Moral of the day: we see the mote in others eyes but not the beam in ours own.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-62850498867016172452011-09-07T15:04:00.000-07:002011-09-07T15:04:27.409-07:00Men's Things<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwI-CVWm9PLEnfFVGR7yYpPxCK3AiK9sDGA2QrnUBXuA_wUDRoDP0GDJ2FT_Gvlp07Awz8Lbm3QI2AP48l1nm2nNCCV7u5_5trvpvDMOdnwUI8qEfw2rbzqA28gKs128lJ9p7_Jg-rMju_/s1600-h/hombres.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087931727555202402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwI-CVWm9PLEnfFVGR7yYpPxCK3AiK9sDGA2QrnUBXuA_wUDRoDP0GDJ2FT_Gvlp07Awz8Lbm3QI2AP48l1nm2nNCCV7u5_5trvpvDMOdnwUI8qEfw2rbzqA28gKs128lJ9p7_Jg-rMju_/s320/hombres.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a>Independently some people could think that organic food is something for spoilt guys, there also some other people who state that pesticides and insecticides affect the brain, the liver and the reproductive system. Respect to the latter, there was in 2007 a research carried out by the Copenhaguen Rishospital that stated that the organic food achives men have a 43% more sperm than a normal block. I perfectly know that somebody will think that this is a strange post and with no much message, for not saying nothing at all, but as the article spoke about organic food and I felt like speaking about that... what you see is what you get.</div><br />
<div align="justify">I got the information from a spanish newspaper in 2007, now here you have a simmilar piece of news but in English: <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/10587.php">Organic Food In Relation To Nutrition</a>. </div><br />
That's all for now.Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-68887135438981335492011-08-10T13:00:00.000-07:002011-08-10T13:04:31.584-07:00This Is War<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5S45QuTn9r95B4EZAnjI-laLJzvGLLyzKUhOa0zBIvTu-Io1_icMycKHRCdbpasOCbpQHj9oiyaex0wpUpymb4tZ0d1B7s3fZ53OATSvsDKqsHwVa9b1A4rnuvpKOsjvk7clrtTLs8nw/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082917073066465282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5S45QuTn9r95B4EZAnjI-laLJzvGLLyzKUhOa0zBIvTu-Io1_icMycKHRCdbpasOCbpQHj9oiyaex0wpUpymb4tZ0d1B7s3fZ53OATSvsDKqsHwVa9b1A4rnuvpKOsjvk7clrtTLs8nw/s320/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 96px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 137px;" /></a>Some weeks ago I remember being working as a volunteer in a project for the conservation of cetaceans somewhere in the North Sea. I also remember having conversation with the people of the team about the consequences of depleting the oceans. The leader of the project made some comments about the increasing number of jellyfish (basically the consequence of tuna overfishing). But this point was not something new to me, in fact, I belong to one of the main countries that the more overfish the oceans: Spain. It's not something new in this country to have in summer news about jellyfish invading our beaches. The point is the way people understand the reality because no many are really aware of what's happening with the tuna population around the world. Things continue happening as some weeks and years ago... the war continues... and the worse is that the problem is getting worse.</div><br />
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<div align="justify"><i>July 3rd, 2007. I could recently read in the newspapers that authorities had declared war to jellyfish... Oh mine!... I continued reading and it seemed that the only real politicians and civil servants worried about the subject were those from the environment agency, in fact they were the only ones who put the finger in the wound: the lack of natural predators has boosted the presence of the jellyfish in our seas (and thanks God we have recently had a reasonable rainy season).</i></div><br />
I'm really sure that more than one will have wondered about who is naturally supposed to be pillaging the jellyfish population.The answer is Mr. Tuna and Ms. Turtle. And now the cornerstone is... Where the hell are the tunas and the turtles? Why are their populations so low? Basically there are two answers:<br />
<ol align="justify"><li><i>We're fishing tuna four times over the sustainable level.</i><i> </i></li>
<li><i>Turtles are being jeopardised troughout really questionable methods of fishing. </i><i> </i></li>
</ol><div align="justify"><i>Although you can see the shelves of the supermarket plenty of tuna tins, it would be really suitable for you to reduce the consumption of this fish (in fact I left it some years ago). I would like to think that consumers and politicians are going to do their bit but let me doubt about it... Above all because the problem is developing faster than reactions being carried out to fix it.</i></div><div align="justify"><i><br />
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</i></div><div align="justify"><i>Good night.</i></div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-45739459098753983272011-06-20T14:23:00.000-07:002011-06-20T14:23:27.437-07:00There's Something Wrong<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTyr45Fsn5ost0Zd6q7EUMxhfGSktFSwp_abd04DCTLReZcOyoG8Bb2OAjSRAPiSa5MPUSr4hHDmIkpCfRWtpPE1Mjq5AXCRxHs9GQDHBk4vpQPKOxyn0oZwlOPM8fBfr_7kAAVcYrQAc/s1600-h/bosques.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080629972916574194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTyr45Fsn5ost0Zd6q7EUMxhfGSktFSwp_abd04DCTLReZcOyoG8Bb2OAjSRAPiSa5MPUSr4hHDmIkpCfRWtpPE1Mjq5AXCRxHs9GQDHBk4vpQPKOxyn0oZwlOPM8fBfr_7kAAVcYrQAc/s320/bosques.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 124px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 178px;" /></a><br />
Before consuming some wood or paper... Think twice please...<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>A surface equivalent to a football stadium disappears every two seconds.</li>
<li>Non Stop. Every day a surface equivalent to 43,200 football stadiums disappears. Every year a surface equivalent to 15,500,000 football stadiums a year disappears. It would be something similar to the surface of Spain and Portugal together.</li>
<li>In the last 80 years we have lost so much forests as in the last 10.000 years and what is worst... the pace is accelarating: in the last 30 years we have lost so much forests as in the last 5,000 years. And last but not least, the loss of biodiversity goes in parallel with the loss of forests.</li>
<li>Many forests finishes their lives transformed into toilette paper, packing, wrapping and office paper.</li>
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It's up to you.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-82293395874371486652011-05-23T15:43:00.000-07:002011-05-23T15:43:55.954-07:0042€ Million To Support Torture<div style="text-align: justify;">Sadly many people still associate bullfighting with spaniards but that's not the reality of a country. Bullfighting defenders can say that's culture, tradition, art... But culture? Is it a good idea to promote the culture of the violence among our teenagers? Tradition? Does it make any sense to continue torturing an animal which has not threatened the life of anybody? And what's up if bulls for bullfighting dissapear? Absolutely nothing as they are hybrids and have never existed in nature. Art? What do defenders pretend with saying that bullfighting represents the cruelty of life? Why not those who stand for bullfighting as an art go to places where children are dying because of draughts and faemines? That's the cruelest face of life and it has absolutely nothing to do with going to the square with a cigar and the stomach plenty of food and perhaps a bit of alcohol.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">What the hell happens in the mind of somebody who enjoys with the suffering of an animal? Perhaps, to be born in an environment where the unnormal becomes the rule is the key.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Some more information about the second video: <a href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=122&ea.campaign.id=10561">Stop The Subsidies</a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thanks honey for the first video :)</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-2061240089887514752011-05-09T16:09:00.000-07:002011-05-09T16:09:57.187-07:00To Somebody Who Is Bored<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWv78H4Yl31Mb3W2ylBdN1tqHqa7hZBlTgpexqOzvUTAkn3WvKLgHuP7gwCQL0tZ4baceJjX91R7CoIWEEyXWxSH_Td7MrESkw84LjaJ4y8Y9KuaOVuYhTBIYsitAHSWLma_HlWakFmTCe/s1600-h/findesemana.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076268049859283586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWv78H4Yl31Mb3W2ylBdN1tqHqa7hZBlTgpexqOzvUTAkn3WvKLgHuP7gwCQL0tZ4baceJjX91R7CoIWEEyXWxSH_Td7MrESkw84LjaJ4y8Y9KuaOVuYhTBIYsitAHSWLma_HlWakFmTCe/s320/findesemana.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 111px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 160px;" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Is being somebody potentially bored next weekend? In such case, I leave for them a reflecition made by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel">Hegel</a> about History; what we were, what we are and what we will be according to our nowadays acts. <br />
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"History is like a rivercourse. Every small movement of the water in a certain point of the course is really determined by the fall of the water and its swirls at the top. But it is also determined by the rocks and the meanders just at the point in which we are looking at".</div><br />
</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-21574954288936660742011-04-20T14:56:00.000-07:002011-04-20T14:57:11.307-07:00Are We Humans More Animals Than Animals Themselves?<div style="text-align: justify;">Following the thread of <a href="http://dedicatedtogaia.blogspot.com/2010/07/children-see-children-do.html">one of my posts</a> and thinking once more about the girls and boys who will be the men and the women of the future, I think it's worth watching the video that my friend Leo sent me some time ago. Now every reader should get his/her own conclusions.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="480" width="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jhCTLaAHsFs&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jhCTLaAHsFs&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-1515476763746396582011-04-06T15:50:00.000-07:002011-04-06T15:52:58.857-07:0090% Hypocrisy<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPN8e8R1asQ5_DL7hLFCB4S46hEpHqnLIChR1hCrpUm3QMW2rz-f8MRfX5cWkvNi_iwBl1Sp-8Xm1zhUd1czZnrPz_CPMhnQDYeyRexl5f0Ua2NCTufiRte3zj6aTZHoG7ORM_xfMvYjJ/s1600-h/hipocrita.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072812890403572322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPN8e8R1asQ5_DL7hLFCB4S46hEpHqnLIChR1hCrpUm3QMW2rz-f8MRfX5cWkvNi_iwBl1Sp-8Xm1zhUd1czZnrPz_CPMhnQDYeyRexl5f0Ua2NCTufiRte3zj6aTZHoG7ORM_xfMvYjJ/s320/hipocrita.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 142px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 122px;" /></a>Once upon a night in which I spent my time having a look at a magazined specialized on fruits and vegetables. Although there are some people who don’t believe it, there are magazines for people from all walks of life. Among all the many different sections there was one dedicated to ecology and I could observe that it was a survey about the degree of concern of Spanish people respect to climate change. Although it could seem unbelievable, 90% of the Spaniards show to be very concerned (I am speaking about the month of June 2007). Should I begin to laugh or to cry? Is anybody pulling my leg? Who on earth has been in charge of carrying such survey and where? Were they collecting the data in an ecologist demonstration? Sincerely, I couldn’t believe it.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">With such level of concern things would be very different. Firstly, the use of bicycles would be far greater. Secondly, the fact of driving a car would be far smaller. I wonder if traffic jams would continue being traffic jams. I wonder if so many people would continue doing an irresponsible use of paper, if so many people would continue carrying out an irresponsible use of air conditioning and if many of they would continue travelling and consuming in an irresponsible way. This late on in life I can’t accept people telling they don’t have enough information. We are to be lazy and fat, there’s no way.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-51439928364241083532011-03-07T16:10:00.000-08:002011-03-07T16:10:26.150-08:00Bad Gases<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94jwWAzagy8VFbUxWWSuJ1KNvkDVhYQishuwN0E8zGLN8pSCwUQVh260RztmvMT8b8T8diWilpMLDtISckEtEeC5_Ba51vnDOI0K4McbOuvnIL-bAZmv1w2HIoqQApLqczVqRtc2q29ca/s1600-h/malosgases.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072159642775925874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94jwWAzagy8VFbUxWWSuJ1KNvkDVhYQishuwN0E8zGLN8pSCwUQVh260RztmvMT8b8T8diWilpMLDtISckEtEeC5_Ba51vnDOI0K4McbOuvnIL-bAZmv1w2HIoqQApLqczVqRtc2q29ca/s320/malosgases.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 98px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 98px;" /></a>So that's what we get with cows and their poohs. They are so polluting that New Zeland won't be able to catch up with the Kioto Protocal because of its livestock. The question is: why such poohs are so polluting? Among other things, they are because they release a greenhouse gas called methane. The point is that this is not new. It is known that some "special rucksacks" are carried by sheep. Such rucksacks inject a substance into the blood which neutralizes the methane, a gas which is twenty-two times more powerful than CO2 with respect to the capacity of warming the planet.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">So far everything seems to be bad but as many things in life there are heads and tails. The good thing of the methane is that if well managed we could be able of making a car work. Let me explain it. If we could manage to collect all the gasses of ten cows during a year, we could make a car work for 9,000 kms, maybe you laugh at what I'm saying but it is bussines, really business. If we take into account that a typical gasoline car goes over 10,000 - 12,000 kms, the propose is really interesting which also would allow us to get rid of such a gas and to cut down CO2 emissions by 50%.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Last but not least, this is one of the arguments that people like the writer of this post have used to justify their rejection to eat meat.Here I leave you an interesting reading: <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM">Livestock's Long Shadow</a>.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-66206073562989057302011-02-20T05:53:00.000-08:002011-02-20T09:32:22.976-08:00Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2XLMBe0CPhrx7LYfIbMo7TySHsh9hWV__FW8gK4kjtlSLz72-C1VnzEJ3ouqb6kL1aRpS-Egwioxi7qWzNMUAJeBZpZWRLLrrP58oSn0P3k8dRH9A6fdQ4elIHtSUB9l10QBAlOc5DKz/s1600-h/cristal.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069956526416540770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2XLMBe0CPhrx7LYfIbMo7TySHsh9hWV__FW8gK4kjtlSLz72-C1VnzEJ3ouqb6kL1aRpS-Egwioxi7qWzNMUAJeBZpZWRLLrrP58oSn0P3k8dRH9A6fdQ4elIHtSUB9l10QBAlOc5DKz/s320/cristal.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 140px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 164px;" /></a>In May 25th 2007, there was a comment in a newspaper respect to thedraughts forecast which had been voiced by our environment state minister. Such comments accused the minister because such a draught hadn't been as severe as it had been said.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">When we speak about climate we have to face stacks and stacks of opinions and as many things in life "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". I mean, depending on your position respect a man-made climate change or a natural climate change, your points of view will difer from others. Man-made climate change is the official theory accepted nowadays but to fail some predictions doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Climate change is a reality which was forseen for some people more than 60 years ago, I would dare to say more, but whose effects, without taking into account how fast they develop, they won't be in the twinkling of an eye. We should be more accurate when speak in terms of time. It is not the same to speak in geological terms than in human life length terms. In fact, climate change is developping so fast, as never seen or at least recorded, that we could speak of important changes during a human life. If we compare human life lenght and geological changes lenght we are speaking about an enormous difference. Such faster changes are already having some visible impacts on fauna and Earth ecosystems which are not having enough time to readapt to the new circumtances. For better for worse, we humans have the ability to adapt as faster as the environment changes (and that's bad because people is not enough concerned to begin to make a change). The question is how long we will be able to keep the rate of change (maybe when we realize is too late).<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I think our minister was right accepting the predictions from the IPCC so there is only room for three possibilities: she didn't expain accurately or she wasn't properly understood or people didn't want to understand her message. I think she would try to say thay periods of draught will be longer with periods of rain shorter than nowadays and maybe more intense. Now, more than ever, we should take profit of the smallest drop of water. Waste is not synonim of well-being.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-12423636910797893012011-01-30T10:47:00.000-08:002011-02-20T09:32:15.148-08:00A Message From Music<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="390" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QlyE5diR_fg&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QlyE5diR_fg&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Juan Carlos' answer was... <i>Undoubtedly</i><i>.</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> The problem of climate change is in short a problem generated by we citizens who ask for products which are polluting as a last resort, from using cars to something so common as switching on a bulb.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He commented as well that citizens should be persuaded from polluting activities, e.g. flying, through taxes..... Fortunatelly in that moment I was not the only one asking people for reducing domestic flights as a first measure... And some good news, in that moment 35% of the companies all over the world were planning to reduce their flights or at least it was in their plans in the short-medium term. How is it possible to find flights at a european level at 30€? Maybe my petitions could be too demanding but I am one of those who think that low-cost flights = a free terrorist attack against the environment. I agree that everybody has the right to flight but in a reasonable way. As we humans sometimes don't have clear ideas about what is wrong or right, a first approximation could be attacking our budgets. He who pollutes must pay.</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-34781998779091319172011-01-12T17:15:00.000-08:002011-01-12T17:15:17.102-08:00"Share" Is The Key<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSNajG_Vp9ETBydKs7tDxfn1LLT-D5KNH24MTLdi-DJtiu0fwM0z7DO9kb6QkqbeXo6SnV3OHxbERpt2I1U8lhfTbCGMs-HNpPUOsMWeVHlH9lcOtP5GvwRwrH1XM-wo6iqRPWIgjq-ci/s1600/otter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSNajG_Vp9ETBydKs7tDxfn1LLT-D5KNH24MTLdi-DJtiu0fwM0z7DO9kb6QkqbeXo6SnV3OHxbERpt2I1U8lhfTbCGMs-HNpPUOsMWeVHlH9lcOtP5GvwRwrH1XM-wo6iqRPWIgjq-ci/s320/otter.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Some days ago I read an article about <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/27/otters-make-a-resurgence?CMP=twt_fd">the otters resurgence in some parts of England</a>. However, such resurgence has shown once more the concept of property that we have respect to the planet. And maybe here we have the key to resolve the problem of cohabitation that we have with the rest of forms of life with which we share the planet. I repeat the keyword: share. We are not only unaware of the point that we human species alone are consuming more than 50% of the resources of the planet. We are so cheeky that have even claimed for the recovery of some species like the one of the otters. </div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I could understand that someone claims because a certain species is destroying their way of making a living but having someone claiming because on holidays are not going to fish as much as expected is outrageous. This is the case of the otters in England. Maybe the selfishness and blindness of those claimers prevent them from understanding that planet Earth is shared. The otters have the same rights than humans to enjoy the rivers and make of them their way of living. It seems that everybody is wrong except us. I think it's high time to understand that our overpopulation and comsumption of resources should be the first thing on this planet to be under a strict control.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks Rafa for your videos, they show the shameful way of how we deal with Life all over this planet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QOBO_OwRar4/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QOBO_OwRar4?f=videos&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QOBO_OwRar4?f=videos&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-41955549924567457442010-12-31T07:07:00.000-08:002010-12-31T07:07:28.317-08:00Bloody Party<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMW-sY08waMj3exKQccxuE2GI4ZeXj7uGeOJUqMxELYb4deSS6xLLdrvyJamfi8YdgkAWxHeAZ2J-imicpUS8I7UQjyzx3UbLGH6ManR9yfN2rhBQyfBtzPjoNWiclQcTW-DvqTMYKSZE/s1600-h/toros.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064382471859453602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMW-sY08waMj3exKQccxuE2GI4ZeXj7uGeOJUqMxELYb4deSS6xLLdrvyJamfi8YdgkAWxHeAZ2J-imicpUS8I7UQjyzx3UbLGH6ManR9yfN2rhBQyfBtzPjoNWiclQcTW-DvqTMYKSZE/s320/toros.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 117px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 145px;" /></a>For different questions, one of the things that get on my nerves is everything related to bullfighting. I don't know if it is the experience of Life or whateverthing related with the pass of the years but fortunately little by little I'm getting over the subject and I am able to cope with it when somebody says they are for the "party".<br />
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Some time ago, when for circumstances of life I spoke more to my friend Vicente about this issue, one of my statements was to say "I don't know what's up in the mind of those people who enjoy such insulting spectacle. How do people can enjoy such slaughter and call it "art"?<br />
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From my mind "art" it's creation. How can people call art something which suposes the jibe and destruction of a life just for fun? Can we call art the fact of pierce with a sword sombody's lungs and heart? Does it justify the diversion of a minority the violation of the most important right that any thing on Earth has (it's the right to live)? To make matters worse, there are some people who attend bloody events like bullfighting and later are saying they're against war and abortion... I can't absolutely understand how somebody can call art the fact of stucking harpoons (normally called banderillas) to an animal without any reason and last but not least, to go through its lungs, causing a flood of blood which culminates in death by suffocation.<br />
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It's not something punctual to see how the animal ends its days among vomits of blood, I can't think in such fast death as someone tries convince us... have we gone crazy? Has somebody heard the word "puntilla", that's the typical knife used just in case the animal is a bit "rebel" to die. No comments, there are no justification to keep this bloody business on.<br />
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Here you can appreciate the bullfighter sticking something on the upper part of the bull's neck (the "puntilla").<br />
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After seeing all this we have still people for bullfighting saying, you eat pollo and beef, don't you? In my case difficult it is besides I'm a vegetarian, but in a slaguhterhouse, if the animal is treated as it is supposed ,it should not suffer a hell as it happens in the square, what some of us call the circle of the unliterates. Everybody deceives a decent death.<br />
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If you come to Spain you will be able to listen quotes as "if bullfighting didn't exist bulls would become extinct" but as romans did, e.g. threw christians to lions, today we can continue enjoying the lions in the wild fortunately. What's more, we have some animals like donkeys which became obselete but which are protected and subsidized nowadays. So what's the problem? <br />
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Others say that bullfighters put into risk their "boles", yes, as you listen but... let me tell you that there are other "machos" like workers cleaning windows in skycrapers, divers working in the very deep in oil rigs at sea, people working at height in windpower farms, electric pylons, police officers, fire men, military, etc, etc... And of course, it is unacceptable to say that the bull can defend itself cause if it is not killed by the first bullfighter will be the second or the third and so on. Bullfighting is not hunting, I'm not for hunting but in general the animal has the possibility of escaping. The story of the bull is crystal clear: once in the square, what we call "ruedo", its days are numbered, the story is finished (except in a very, very few number of occasions in which it's reprieved).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Last but not least, I leave you a video to show everybody round the world a little sample of what happens in our "national party". This is not Spain and not all spaniards are for bullfighting, for goodness' sake!! Thanks <a href="http://estevediary.blogspot.com/">Stefano</a> for the links.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Happy new year 2011 to everybody and I hope the new year comes with stronger acts to prohibit bullfighting once for all. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="300" id="RTVEPlayer1354" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.rtve.es/swf/v2/embed/574410_es_videos/RTVEPlayer.swf"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed src="http://www.rtve.es/swf/v2/embed/574410_es_videos/RTVEPlayer.swf" width="425" height="300" name="RTVEPlayer1354" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-22784752500591705172010-12-08T16:35:00.000-08:002010-12-08T16:35:58.711-08:00The Revenge<div style="text-align: center;">Some shameless people should be in the situation of the video.He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<embed height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V83oP5I4iyQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="390"></embed> </div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-42223325503337821802010-12-06T16:44:00.000-08:002010-12-06T16:44:44.943-08:00Quotes<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjACI3L6hjfkWCoy7L9Pi7jN-7VRcOPGr_1FgnG10rOPo-jNnfdex7FIbeq12x6OJcGazwFKAtz-Fk1XnPa6cQoNdNIYwqzDv8tv6nFEm01J2smPJcPBh132B4mJM3IEHwwQONtRtZP1At5/s1600-h/mago.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061155375167159954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjACI3L6hjfkWCoy7L9Pi7jN-7VRcOPGr_1FgnG10rOPo-jNnfdex7FIbeq12x6OJcGazwFKAtz-Fk1XnPa6cQoNdNIYwqzDv8tv6nFEm01J2smPJcPBh132B4mJM3IEHwwQONtRtZP1At5/s320/mago.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
The magician made a gesture<br />
and famine disappeared,<br />
the magician made a gesture<br />
and poverty disappeared.<br />
The politicien made a gesture...<br />
and the magician disappeared.<br />
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</div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-91016612296704162822010-11-24T04:16:00.000-08:002010-11-24T06:23:37.050-08:00Orange or Lemon?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82pn8cRdxqOWh5U-pzddL2EnzvQX6rCnJXlCaViy2L4jDqZcDBaRjtNEpAhVbst_hNRXWZwgpikQ3ylm3Ic84qBo49IIwrqE24hbILXn18yrqUL18NA2Cbm_0ZzQZ6q5jlodW5WJdNWDd/s1600-h/naranja.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057116328386320274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82pn8cRdxqOWh5U-pzddL2EnzvQX6rCnJXlCaViy2L4jDqZcDBaRjtNEpAhVbst_hNRXWZwgpikQ3ylm3Ic84qBo49IIwrqE24hbILXn18yrqUL18NA2Cbm_0ZzQZ6q5jlodW5WJdNWDd/s320/naranja.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
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The Orange</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">In April 2007 the news related to climate were about if we warm the planet more than two celsius degrees, as an average, the damage will be irreparable and maybe events will be out of control. Global temperature had increased 0.7 ºC by that moment. It was also told that we were on time to reduce our emissions but this seems not to have changed so much. There have been some steps but, have they really been enough? <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html">Some comments from the NASA</a>.</div><br />
The Lemon<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Between the end of this century and the beggining of the following, the millions of us who already live, or have survived, we'll have to do it at the Poles where climate will be comfortable enough</i>. <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock">James Lovelock</a>. Scientist and inventor.</div><br />
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Which flavour do you prefer?<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I posted in April 2007 some comments about de main headlines related to the environment. In that moment after 3 years, things hadn't changed a lot. Now, 3 years later, the question is reaised once again. Maybe people are more concerned, there are some steps being taken but there's a new question: can these measures catch up with the level of destruction? I'm in doubt. Three examples to think about: <a href="http://thewe.biz/weplanet/europe/masteuro.html">Europe's seas face 'bleak future'</a>, <a href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/biodiversity/news_events_updates/?uNewsID=186461">€1.1 trillion</a> and <a href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/">2010 living planet report</a>. And now some headlines from 2004 to 2007:</div><ul><li>Climate change threatens beaches in the Mediterranean Sea.</li>
<li>Patagonia's glaciars could disappear in twenty years time.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Global warming could come great famines and the melting of the Himalaya.</li>
<li>Climate change will leave 200 million refugees in 2050.</li>
<li>Ten important natural reservas under threat.</li>
<li>Global warming threatens 30% of flora and fauna.</li>
<li>Equator declares the Galapago Islands at risk.</li>
<li>Scientists declare the collapse of marine ecosystems.</li>
</ul>Amen.Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936522223204971007.post-40531358299954082722010-10-18T00:00:00.000-07:002010-10-18T03:52:39.176-07:00The Footprint Of Your Bottled Water<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMMnU1grl6Zm3XiR8moofUjDWZOh6mgUAExS7Dbk7W2HD7q76Kl1_KU6jOpXndRsWkJ2uVW_Ignld6yZEgX-1JmqkRhuPzCTzEe-UJNytSi-A1_UjoNoTQuXQM_lUoNT9p8BIx2B1PCpr/s1600-h/huella.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049340908697560770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMMnU1grl6Zm3XiR8moofUjDWZOh6mgUAExS7Dbk7W2HD7q76Kl1_KU6jOpXndRsWkJ2uVW_Ignld6yZEgX-1JmqkRhuPzCTzEe-UJNytSi-A1_UjoNoTQuXQM_lUoNT9p8BIx2B1PCpr/s320/huella.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 103px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 103px;" /></a>First of all here you are a report about the footprint of bottled water consumption: <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/090318-bottled-water-energy.html">click here</a>. Second, when we buy something I think we should take into account the point of departure of the product so that way the thought would become part of what is called "<a href="http://responsibleconsumption.com/">responsible consumption</a>".<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the products with an important footprint is not only the bottled water but also off-season fruit. We could say that eating the off-season fruit has become second nature but if we take into account that such fruit has been brought from Equator to Spain for example, that could be something bad as it has surely been brought by plane (a really important machine for generating CO2 emissions). If we speak in general terms, a ship emits 0.002 Kg of CO2 per kilometre and ton transported. The same distance and weight for a train is 0.069, 0.11 for a truck and 2 for the plane. It is, for the same distance a plane pollutes 1000 times more than a ship, I don't know if you get the idea... Because of this I raise, the spanish government plans are focused on promoting the railway network and sea routes. Time will tell.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">And speaking about bottled water another question would be: why not using glass bottles as we did some years ago? I don't know if in other countries has happened but here in Spain, a twenty years ago, it was something usual to get a discount for returning an empty glass bottle when you bought a new one (filled up with the product of course). It is true that the majority of the bottled water which is sold is bottled in plastic and because of that we should get in contact with the company which makes the product asking for a change respect to the bottling. The <a href="http://earth911.com/recycling/glass/facts-about-glass-recycling/">glass bottles are 100% recyclable</a>, in other words, we could use the same material for ever in practical terms (the quantity of missing material is trivial compared to plastic) and the quantity of energy and material necessary in the process is far less than making plastic bottles. The moral today would be: The more glass-bottled water you use the tinier your footprint will be.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, please, keep in mind this is not an apology for consuming bottled water, keep in mind we should drink tap water but just in case we need to buy bottled water for any reason, be responsible and opt for glass bottles as far as possible of course.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">And now a nice story to summarise the impact of plastic bottles on our environment and pockets.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">...but every day it is more difficult.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="220" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15657491" width="400"></iframe><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/15657491">Not Another Nature Film</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/wwf">WWF</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cdiv%20style=%22text-align:%20center;%22%3E">WWF's Living Planet Report 2010</a></div>Pericohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231185103335409933noreply@blogger.com0