Mediterranean Sea: a threatened microcosm.

The successive degradation of this historical area was and is a pending topic on Environmental Policy of the UE and the rest of the countries of the Mediterranean Basin (in Africa and Asia).

Its main peculiarity is that this is practically a closed sea. Its water is hardly renewed, only by the straits of Gibraltar (from the Atlantic Ocean) and Bosphorus (from the Black Sea). Furthermore, in the last twenty years, the population of the Mediterranean countries has grown more than fifty millions.

The levels of metal concentration in water (copper, cadmium, lead, zinc, mercury …) have increased so much in different quantities and besides, the residual waters. All of that affects to the marine wildlife and even the human beings, when there are focus of diseases like typhus, salmonella, cholera ... (overall in the south and poor part).

In the last years of the seventies, the Blue Plan was created for elaborate a complete survey of the real state of the sea (water, flora and fauna). It was signed by fourteen of the eighteen Mediterranean countries and it had to be finished with the Millennium.

In spite of that agreement, the Mediterranean Sea, origin of the western culture and civilization, and meeting point among Orient and Occident, has been deteriorated year by year and if we (society and political class) don’t act fast it will be finally a new Dead Sea in only twenty years (in 2020 or 2030). The worst of all is the situation of other aquatic spaces is the same or worse (like the Caspian Sea or the Baikal Lake).

Could the environmental apocalypse come soon? I don’t hope so.

Return to Nuclear Energy.

We can be in agree or disagree with this title but it’s the idea of many European governments , which are thinking in build up a new generation of nuclear plants. Even the creator of the Gaia theory (the Earth is a living organism with the capability of auto-regulation, controlling the weather and a chemical composition that permits life), James Lovelock, is pleading about this energy as the best solution for the global warming (you can read an article from his web about this topic). He supports the new energy policy of the UK Premier Tony Blair. The main reason for that change: the North Sea petrol has been diminishing in recent years.

The reality is hard. We waste a lot of energy and even more year by year, and in the other hand, the oil and natural gas prices are increasing since 2001. Otherwise, many producers as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia or Russia maintain semi-dictatorial regimens thank this manna.

In the European Union, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom want to develop a new generation of nuclear plants. In our case, Spain will not able to assume the Kioto Protocol because we have been increasing so much our CO2 emissions. We like renewable energies but they are insufficient in development and efficiency (consume increases faster than generation). In contrast, France and Germany have choosen different paths for their energy policy. France has been developed nuclear energy for civil and military objectives since De Gaulle era (France’s strategy has always tried to be auto-sufficient in everything). But in contradiction to France, the new German government of Angela Merkel will maintain the environmental policies implanted during the green-red coalition. German people are environmentally concerned.

It’s a troubling affair. I think the problem is not the generation but its rational and right use. We have to learn how to save and appreciate energy, but will we be able to change our wasting way of life in the future??

EVERYBODY AGAINST AIDS.

If playmobil figures help us to attack AIDS, everything is nicer.



Besides, they are very sexy.:-))))

Good day!!!

The Iceman’s malediction.

Few weeks ago I read an article about the man called Oetzi, a prehistoric man found in the Alps among Italy and Austria. I have always interested in news related to this special discover because he was well-conserved and had some objects (clothes, arms and tools). But I did not know anything about the deaths of people who surrounded him, for example investigators, his discoverer and a mountaineer. Diseases and bad luck were the causes, but media has found a source of news telling us a possible curse.

It’s really mysterious but we can not believe in superstition or mere curse. We could remember the Egyptian Pharaohs’ maledictions even though their causes are nowadays a mysterious (therefore, the main cause is still the fungus Aspergillus Niger) but we had to think in rational hypothesis. We do not know all in this world and there will be always something to discover or analyse.