JUST STOP OIL

 

         

               

On October 14th, two Just Stop Oil activists entered the National Gallery in London to throw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers” before sticking their hands to the museum wall. The striking gesture went around the world bringing the spotlight on the environmental movement which, despite its recent creation, has been making headlines in the United Kingdom for months, not without criticism. 

WILL THE EARTH'S BLACK BOX RECORD OUR END?

 

 

"Unless we dramatically transform our way of life climate change and other man-made perils will cause our civilization to crash," these words are written in the Earth's Black Box (see website)   and they appear as a worrying and dramatic warning for us and for all mankind before it is too late.

It seems an exaggeration but there are those who really think so: in Australia, for example, where at the beginning of the New Year they will build the Earth BlackBox, the black box that will record the end of the Anthropocene.

ROME G20 2021: LET'S SAVE THE PLANET!

 

 

The most important summit regarding the health of our planet was held on 30th and 31st October 2021. It is the meeting of the leaders of the 20 richest countries, who met in Rome, where they discussed issues such as climate change, global economy and the world vaccination campaign against Covid -19. 

JAKARTA IS SINKING

 

With more than 10 million inhabitants the Indonesian megacity is facing the effects of land subsidence and sea level rise . A lethal combo that along with the Indonesian climate facilitates floods .

"The potential for Jakarta to be submerged isn't a laughing matter," says Heri Andreas, who has studied Jakarta's land subsidence for the past 20 years at the Bandung Institute of Technology.

FIRES IN AUSTRALIA

During the past few months there have been several fires that brought Australia to its knees. Up until now milions of hectares have been burned, dozens of people have died, thousands of them have evacuated, and there have been more than a billion dead animals and incalculable environmental and ecological damage.

ETHICAL ASPECTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS FROM THE CLASSICS TO PRESENT-DAY ISSUES

Nature is clearly rebelling. Natural disasters and cataclysms have been more and more frequent and their brutality has increased in recent years. We ourselves have certainly had a taste of frightening scenarios  noticing either too hot weather or rather stormy winds which inevitably have been haunting our lives.

The only certainty we have is that this impressive upheaval is due to an enormous industrial activity on the planet. Our world is characterised by a frenzy to make more and more money: at the same time, mankind has been increasingly producing rubbish, which has the worrying feature of being indestructible. 

Therefore, everyone can draw a precise conclusion and recognize capitalism as the reason of today’s issues: the majority of well-to-do people owns more than what they really need.

Most of us have bumped into Greta Thunberg's protest surfing the Net or watching the news. She's  a 16-year-old environmental activist who, despite her tender age, decided to commit herself to this massive issue. As she said in a recent speech, "On climate change, we have to acknowledge that we have failed”, since we have never treated the climate crisis as a real crisis. Unfortunately, these troubles exist  and are endangering our lives. 

If the economic system is responsible for our dangerous reality, we ought to start using our wealth and our advancemments in science and technology in order to find strategies to preserve life on Earth.