Reading (or should I say "no read") of the extracts of the book The Limits to Growth: Thirty years after he to speak more than many other books 'literary' and read.
is clear that the task of dealing with a text that accumulate data tested and approved by world renowned scientists, drawing an apocalyptic scenario in our planetary medium term future, may result in the reader an instinctive response of survival: stop reading. We live in a particular everyday we have to solve many problems to drive us over the problems of a planet subject to the depredations of man (from the Latin word whose original meaning is humu s, land, with which is nothing sexist, no matter who insist members and members of the body politic).
The question is, as responsible for reading, Juan Antonio Carmona, there is no reason why we should deal with this text as a mirror. Simply it is data that help us better understand what is happening, but that does not make us feel bad about the situation, after all, no one has chosen to be born and nobody has the ability and obligation to change the world.
work of Banksy, English street artist. Visit the link.
If it is true that individual actions can make a difference on a personal level, the familiar slogan think global, act local . But there are grains of sand against a leviathan, and although it would be possible for all human beings put together their little grain of sand and build a mountain, it is unlikely, a word which summarizes and defines the future of the world towards this utopia that many or most have dreamed over the centuries. But the dream, as we showed Horkeimmer, belongs to a dream, not the actual project.
off the tap while brushing our teeth, buying a cfc-free deodorant, driving a low emission vehicle pollutant, to keep consumption to a minimum, or decrease it. All these slogans emanating from governments or NGOs are half of the reality in that swarm, a reality which I define as schizophrenia, because the other half consists of examples of predatory behavior, lack of scruples, exploitation, injustice, hunger, disease, death, and this reality comes from the same society that speaks of inalienable human rights and a better future. The people who said Juan Antonio, it makes things closely to make them feel better. Which leads me to believe that according to that, breaks down the belief of personal sacrifice for others, the example of redeeming left sacrificed on the cross. But Manolo Moreira we presented an example in which the personal initiative of a committed group managed to recover a degraded environment and get by example the involvement of management, for political purposes, of course.
The Yes Men group of activists who gained international notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on the Internet and on television and at business conferences around the world. Visit the link.
Machiavelli said centuries ago: the end justifies the means. The question that I do mine, and he gave before leaving this universe, Dr. Manhattan, to baffle Adrian Veidt (in the comic masterpiece Wachtmen) is: What End? What purpose? Nothing ever ends. And that we, in the uncertainty of the tightrope that we walk every day, between doing nothing and doing something, too small to make decisions beyond what our senses allow us to grasp.
This is the world in which we, and everyone is free to do whatever he wants. The options are many, but our limited time and capacity. Should data and forecasts of the book are true, we are witnessing the end of the resources of a planet that seemed a priori be able to feed us all. About what will happen, there are only probabilities, and a small gap that is always subject to chance. Interview
Leopoldo Abadía, which explains the economic crisis.
