March 8, 2010 is not an ideological issue related to the hopeless hope that a better world is and should be possible.
is known that homo sapiens has existed for about 200 thousand years, which amounts to a tiny space of time from which early elementary forms of life on our planet for about three billion years.
Responses to the unfathomable mysteries of life and nature are fundamentally religious. No sense pretending it any other way, and I have the conviction that never cease to be. The more deeply in science explanation of the universe, space, time, matter and energy, endless galaxies and theories about the origin of the constellations and stars, atoms and fractions thereof giving rise to life and the short of it , and the millions and millions of combinations per second that govern its existence, the more questions will the man in search of explanations that will be increasingly complex and difficult.
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The more human beings seek answers to such deep and complex tasks related to intelligence, more will be worth the effort to remove them from their colossal ignorance about the real possibilities of what our species Smart has been created and is capable of creating. Living and ignoring it is the total denial of our human condition.
Something, however, it is true, few can imagine how close may be the disappearance of our species. Almost 20 years ago, a World Summit on Environment in Rio de Janeiro, I approached this danger before a select gathering of Heads of State and Government who listened with respect and interest, although not at all concerned about the risk he saw at a distance centuries, perhaps millennia. To them, security, technology and science, plus a basic sense of political responsibility, would be able to cope. With a large picture of characters important, the most powerful and influential among them, happy concluded that important Summit. There was no danger. From climate change
barely spoke. George Bush Sr. and other sparkling Atlantic Alliance leaders, enjoyed a victory on the European socialist bloc. The Soviet Union was disintegrated and ruined. A huge flow of Russian money went to Western banks, the economy collapsed, and its defensive shield against the NATO military bases had been dismantled.
A former superpower that gave the lives of more than 25 million children in the Second World War, it became only the responsiveness strategic nuclear power, which had been forced to create after the United States developed a secret atomic weapons dropped on two Japanese cities, where the enemy defeated by the unstoppable advance of the allied forces was no longer able to fight.
Thus began the Cold War and the manufacture of thousands of thermonuclear weapons, increasingly destructive and precise, able to kill several times the population of the planet. The nuclear standoff continued, however, weapons were increasingly accurate and destructive. Russia will not accept the unipolar world that seeks to impose Washington. Other nations such as China, India and Brazil emerge with unusual economic strength.
For the first time, the human species, in a globalized world full of contradictions, has created the ability to destroy itself. Added to this are weapons of unprecedented cruelty, such as bacteriological and chemical, napalm and white phosphorous, which are used against civilians and enjoy total impunity, electromagnetic and other forms of destruction. No corner in the depths of the earth or the sea would be outside the scope of the current means of war.
is known that these pathways have been created tens of thousands of nuclear devices, including portable nature.
The greatest danger stems the decision of leaders with such powers in the decision-making that error and madness, so common in human nature, can lead to incredible disaster.
nearly 65 years have passed since the outbreak of the first two nuclear devices, the decision of a mediocre subject after Roosevelt's death was in command of the powerful and wealthy American power. Today there are eight countries, mostly for the support of the United States have such weapons, and several others enjoy the technology and resources to manufacture a minimum of time. Terrorist groups, alienated by hatred, would be able to go to them, just as that terrorists and irresponsible governments do not hesitate to use because of its genocidal and uncontrollable behavior.
The military industry is the most prosperous of all United States and the largest exporter of weapons.
If all the above risks our species is released, there is an even greater, or at least more inevitable: climate change.
Humanity now has seven billion inhabitants, and soon, within 40 years, will reach nine billion, a figure nine times higher than just 200 years ago. In times of ancient Greece, I dare to assume that there were about 40 times less the entire planet.
amazing thing about our time is the contradiction between imperialist bourgeois ideology and the survival of the species. It is no longer that there is justice among human beings, more than possible and essential, but the right and the chances of their survival.
When the horizon of knowledge expands to limits ever conceived, the closer the abyss into which humanity is conducted. All the sufferings known to date are just a shadow of what humanity might have to go.
Three events occurred in only 71 days, that humanity can not ignore.
On December 18, 2009, the international community suffered the greatest defeat in history in its attempt to seek solutions to the most serious problem threatening the world at this moment: the need to urgently stop the greenhouse gases that are causing the most serious problem faced by humanity today. All hopes had been placed on the Copenhagen summit after years of preparation after the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. government, the largest polluter in the world had had the luxury to ignore. The rest of the world community, 192 countries, this time including the United States was committed to promoting a new agreement. It was so embarrassing to the U.S. attempt to impose its hegemonic interests, violated basic democratic principles, tried to set conditions unacceptable to the rest of the world in an undemocratic manner, under bilateral commitments with a group of the most influential countries of the United Nations.
For the states of the international organization were invited to sign a document that makes a mockery, which is spoken of merely theoretical contributions to curb future climate change.
This was less than three weeks when, on the evening of January 12, Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest country and the first ending the odious system of slavery, suffered the worst natural disaster in the known history of this part of the World: An earthquake measuring 7.3 degrees on the Richter scale, only 10 miles deep and a short distance from the edge of their coasts, hit the national capital, whose weak houses mud lived the vast majority of people killed or missing. A mountainous country and eroded of 27 thousand square kilometers, where the wood is virtually the only source of domestic fuel for nine million people.
If somewhere on the planet a natural disaster has been an immense tragedy was Haiti, a symbol of poverty and underdevelopment, where the descendents moved Africa by the colonialists to work as slaves for white masters.
The event shocked the world in all corners of the world, shocked by the images released film bordering on the unbelievable. The wounded, bleeding and serious, moved among the dead crying out for help. In the wreckage lay the bodies of their loved ones life. The number of fatalities, according to official estimates, more than 200 thousand people.
The country was already spoken for, MINUSTAH, the UN sent to restore order subverted by Haitian mercenary forces, instigated by the Bush administration, was launched against the Government elected by the Haitian people. Some buildings they inhabited soldiers and heads of the peacekeepers also collapsed, causing painful victims.
The party officials estimate that, apart from the dead, about 400 thousand Haitians were injured and several million, almost half of the total population, were affected. It was a real test for the global community, after the embarrassing Summit of Denmark had the duty to show that the developed and rich countries would be able to face the threats of climate change to life on our planet. Haiti should be an example of what rich countries must do for Third World nations to climate change.
Believe it or not, challenging the data, to my mind irrefutable, the most serious scientists on the planet and the vast majority of the most educated and serious in the world, who think that the current rate of warming gases greenhouse effect will raise the temperature only 1.5 degrees, but up to 5 degrees, and since the average temperature is the highest in the last 600 thousand years, long before humans existed as a species on the planet.
is absolutely unthinkable that nine billion human beings who inhabit the world in 2050 could survive such a catastrophe. There remains the hope that science itself find a solution to the problem of energy than today requires 100 years to consume the rest of the fuel gas, liquid and solid nature took 400 million years to create. Perhaps science can find solutions to the energy. The question would be knowing how long and at what human cost they will face the problem, which is not unique as many other non-renewable mineral and serious problems require solution. One thing we can be sure from all the concepts now known: the nearest star is four light years from our Sun at a speed of 300 thousand kilometers per second. A spacecraft perhaps that distance in thousands of years. The human being has no choice but to live on this planet.
seem unnecessary to address the issue if only 54 days after the earthquake in Haiti, another great earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, whose epicenter was 150 miles away and 47.4 deep northwest of the city conception, not cause another human catastrophe in Chile. It was the largest ever in that sister country, says another hit 9 degrees, but this time it was not just a phenomenon of seismic effect, while in Haiti during times waited for a tsunami that occurred in Chile earthquake was followed by a huge tsunami, which appeared in their costs of nearly 30 minutes to an hour depending on the distance and data are not yet known with precision and whose waves reached Japan. Were it not for the Chilean experience to earthquakes, the buildings stronger and more resources, the natural phenomenon would have cost the lives of tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of people. No cause therefore stopped about a thousand people dead, according to official figures released, thousands injured and maybe more than two million people suffered damage. Almost the entire population of 17 million 94 000 275 inhabitants, suffered terribly and still suffers the consequences of earthquake that lasted more than two minutes, his repeated aftershocks, and the terrible scenes and suffering left by the tsunami along its thousands of miles of coastline. Our country is full solidarity and moral support the material effort by the international community is obligated to offer to Chile. If something was in our hands, from the human point of view, by the brother people of Chile, the people of Cuba would not hesitate to do so.
I think the international community has a duty to report objectively the tragedy suffered by both peoples. It would be cruel, unjust and irresponsible to fail to educate the peoples of the world to the dangers that threaten us.
That truth prevail over the pettiness and lies that imperialism deceives and confuses people! Cubadebate
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