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Terra reloaded

The melting of the glaciers
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World governments are in the thralls of an hysterical joy. They have saved the banks, and thus themselves, and they feel safe. Everything as before. A stimulus for cars, CO2 and cement. For the production of useless goods that fuel a senseless economy that is destroying the planet. The fashion parade of the G8 with clothes, lunches, dinners and “cotillion”, has ended with nothing concrete. The participants at the l'Aquila parade are irresponsible people. They decided not to decide. To move the hand of the clock to 2050 to limit greenhouse gas emissions to a maximum increase of two degrees. By then Obama, Merkel, the psycho-dwarf, Brown and their consorts will be dead. Two degrees-2050, a good pairing. Why not one degree in 2020 or half a degree in 2015? These folk are playing at dice with our lives. Economic interests are guiding the governments, not social interests. The economic crisis has been a great occasion (already lost) to redefine priorities. We should be arriving at change by necessity.
Man is the only living being that destroys the environment that allows him to live. He seems like an alien come from space with the mission of eliminating life on earth. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) are producing data and analyses about the disappearance of the glaciers. Glaciers contain three quarters of existing fresh water. If they all were to melt, the level of sea water would rise by 65 metres. Just the disappearance of the Greenland ice cap would correspond to a rise of seven metres. Glaciers are evaporating before our very eyes while we are committed to increase the number of cars world-wide and to rejoice for Fiat and Ford. The Alps have lost 22% of their glaciers since the year 2000, two thirds of those in the Pyrenees have disappeared since the middle of last century. Just in the heat of 2003 European glaciers lost between 5 and 10% of their volume. Future hypotheses forecast many years like 2003. China and India are not part of the G8, but they are very interested in glaciers. With the current rate of melting, within 40 years, the glaciers of the Himalayas will no longer exist. The life of 40% of the world population depends on the water reserves of the Himalayas which sees the source of some of the world’s greatest rivers like the Ganges and the Yangtze.
Information is the best way of stopping the disappearance of the glaciers. For months, we have been warned about the spread of a flu virus, but the media are giving no importance to the disappearance of the reserves of fresh water. The blog has interviewed some of the best minds on the planet about the future that is waiting for us and how we can face up to it. Their voices have been collected together into a documentary put together with the help of Greenpeace and it will come out on 15 September with the title: “Terra reloaded”. There’s not a lot of time left, but we will do it.

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oxana.. io cerco a te invece.. se leggi rispondi..

Posted by: denis | January 15, 2010 08:26 PM


Alberto!
Ti stavo tanto cercando/ Ti ricordano tutti qui a SPb molto bene/Rispondi. Non so come ma ti posso aiutare?

Posted by: Oxana | September 16, 2009 09:14 PM


Mi chiamo Galdiolo Alberto, mi tyrov o alla disperazione, sono bloccato a Tamatave (Toamasina) in Madagascar insieme a mia mùadre di 91 anni.
Ho 62 anni, oltre 10 anni fa ho perso mio figlio, per dieperazione mi sono trasferito all'estero. In pasato stavo bene, ma poi... Oltrer cinque anni fa siamo tornati in Italia, mia medre ha sempre viaggiato con me, è molto giovanile ed anche lei non sopportava più di erstare dopo quanto accaduto. In Italia, cirisi o non crisi, me la sono sempre cavata. Ho fatto di tutto, fino ad andare a lavare le pentole nei grandi alberghi. Non si guadagnava molto, ma non c'erano spese, per cui riuscivo a risparmiare oltre 5000 euro l'anno. Ho sempre solgnato il madagascar per cui siamo partiti con l'idea di fare qui qualche cosq. Avevamo quasi 30000 euro, non molti, ma più che suffucienti in questo Paese. Pochi giorni dopo essere arrivati ci eravamo stbiliti in un boungalow, io sono uscito un memento raccomandando, come sempre, mia madre di restare nel boungalow, ma, quando sono tornato, i nostri soldi non c'erano più. Mia madre sosteneva di non essere mai uscita ma, messa alle strette, ammise di essere uscita un memento lasciando le porte aperte. I soldi erano dentro una grossa busta di pelle all'interno di una valigetta vicino al letto. La busta non c'era più. Qui vi é moltya delinquenza, più che altra dettata dalla disperazione, ma non penso a qualcuno del posto; due giovani turisti erano partiti proprio in quel momento in cui mi ero assentato...
Ora SIAMO ALLA DISPERAZIONE! Non abbiamo ;il biglietto di rientro in Italia perchè siamo arrivati dalla Reunion, pensavamo che, se necessario rientrare in Italia, avremmo sempre potuto fare il biglietto successivamente. Andare alla Reunion, molto più cara del Madagascae, è inutile, per cui ho reso i due bigliettio per poter vivere. Ho provato di tutto, è più di un mese che provo tutte le strade: amici, ex moglie, agenzier di viaggio Ambasciata (Francese, perchè l'Ityaloia qui non ha neppure un Console Onorario), Croce Roissa, Croce Bianca, ditutto. E' un mese che provo tutte le strade possibioli ma NESSUNO MI AIUTA!
In passato, per 15 anni ho fatto volntariato aiutando gli altri e spendendo del mio, se avessi saputo;;;
Penso al suicidio cosa altro fare? Mi servono due biglietti aerei e qualche soldo, pochi, per ricominciare, mia madre ha una piccola pensione, in pochi mesi, crisi o non crisi, possiamo rendere tutto; Se volete contattateci per telefono al numero. 00261341915016, non rispondete all' e mail, uso l'indirizzo che avevo in Italia ma mi è molto difficile qui trovare un computer con internet.
SIAMO DISPERATI? FATE PRESTO E ... SCUSATE!

Posted by: alberto galdiolo | August 18, 2009 03:38 PM


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