The Left Anchor

After forty years as a communicator, and ten dedicated campaigning Environmental awareness and environmental awareness, developing educational strategies within the framework of Local Agenda 21 and School, I realize that we have failed to communicate. We were simply report but we have been able to convey emotions and now at this stage of the game we realize that the society really aware and motivated by environmentally sound behavior is minimal.
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The agreement between Lula and Prime Minister of Turkey with Iran regarding uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes has a uniqueness that should be highlighted. Was achieved through dialogue, mutual trust that arises from looking at their eyes and negotiation in the logic of the win-win. No intimidation, imposition, threats, pressures of all kinds, or demonizing the other.
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The other day an acquaintance sent me the following letter on Facebook (the post in Spanish):

SOLIDARITY WITH THE VICTIMS OF THE RAPID GROWTH OF CANCER CASES IN SERBIA

I sympathize with the victims of the rapid growth of cancer patients in Serbia.

It has been shown that the rapid growth in the number of cancer patients on Kosovo and other regions of Serbia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina today is related to the humanitarian intervention of NATO in the second half of the 90s twentieth century.
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In recent times we have spent our thoughts almost exclusively to environmental issues and challenges that climate change means for the future of our civilization, for the production and consumption.

Why we must not neglect the everyday problems, the continued construction of our identity and the shaping of our sense of being. It is a task that never ends. In it are several challenges two of which challenge us constantly and we must face them: acceptance of one’s own limits and the ability to detach.
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The fear that the Coast have to face an environmental disaster rose more than expected Sunday, after the quickest solution failed planned to contain a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to AFP.

The gigantic dome of British Petroleum (BP), with which it was intended to contain an oil leak at about 1,500 meters deep, now lies at the bottom of the sea as engineers try to find ways to stop crystals forming ice block and prevent the placement.
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Peasants, students, indigenous people are mobilized for the defense of water, “no matter who persecute us, imprison us, throw us bamboos, to give us stick, to call us terrorists, being told that we are ignorant, no matter, nothing matters the only thing that matters is life, my children, my grandchildren, all that matters is our Mother Earth, live it, and damn it we will die, “so named Dona Maria del Portete Victorians, who at 75 years is sure that the only way left to the villagers is the organization and the struggle to defend water, “no one is going to fight, nobody gives anything, everyone wants to carry water for their mill, and we do not believe in anyone , government lies, deceit, just trust in ourselves, the people of the village, farmers, young students, nobody is going to fight, so I’m here, old and everything, but still I have the strength, and while me strength dear Lord I’ll be here. ”
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“We are without doubt the last generations to have the ability to stop the destruction of living creatures, before irreversible exceed a threshold, beyond which even the future of humanity on earth may be at risk”

Jacques Chirac

With the start of Kyoto Protocol
opens to the world a new
perspective, which includes the
preservation of the planet, and offers
trade alternatives.
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Between 5 and 8 April this year, the State of Rio de Janeiro (the city and other neighbors, especially Niteroi) experienced the largest flood of the past 48 years. There was extensive flooding in the main street, landslides, rising half a meter and the level of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, caused in part by the high tide prevented the drainage of rainwater. The most terrible thing was the death of hundreds of people buried under tons of earth, trees, rocks and trash.

Three seem to be the main causes which led to this tragedy, which from time to time descends upon the city for its charming landscape which combines sea, mountains and forest, and its people warm and welcoming.
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On February 2, 2007, in Paris to hear the results of the study on global warming released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the then President Jacques Chirac said: “As never before, we must speak revolution literally. If we do, we jeopardize the future of Earth and Humanity. ” Before him, other voices, like Gorbachev and Claude Lévy-Strauss shortly before he died, warned: “civilizing values or change or the Earth will continue without us.”
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These words were actually printed in the New York Times:

Even Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, the leading opponent of the legislation, called it “probably the largest bill ever considered by the Senate in its impact on the economy and our way of life.”

And so it was, with a chorus of Senate voices having proclaimed the urgency and importance of the issue that the Great Climate Change Debate of 2008 ended on Friday morning, after three and a half days, with a procedural vote that effectively shelved the bill until next year. A motion by Democrats to end debate and move to a final vote, requiring 60 votes to succeed, fell far short, with 48 senators in favor and 36 against.
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