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Stories and News No. 1298 Okay, let's also tell this one as if it were a fairy tale, but one for older readers, because I thank that the younger ones already know it, since the so-called "grown-ups" stage it on a daily basis. So, once upon a time there were the protagonists of this story, i.e. three sovereigns: Sunak, king of the Disunited Kingdom, Kishida, emperor of the Archipelago of the Dying Sun, and Queen Giorgia, monarch of the Land of Boot. One fine day, or rather the opposite, being somewhat worried, Mother Earth - that is, everyone's mom, therefore theirs too - went to them and said: "I'll get straight to the point, because time is running out, even if I didn’t understand yet whether you realize it or not. Anyway, since I'm not doing well at all and I have no idea how long I'll be here with you, I wanted to know what you thought about the future." The three looked at each other perplexed and then the Earth grew impatient: "We...

Stories and News No.1252 The photo of six giraffes dying of thirst in Kenya due to drought went viral within days .   So, I am working on this: Attempts for a piece to raise awareness about climate change and, above all, the need to modify your lifestyle wherever you are, knowing that the problem is global and we are all accountable with every choice we make everyday, who we vote, what we buy, what we eat or how we travel, what we consume, everything we spread in nature, etc. First : recursive prose that should strike for accretion. Six. Six giraffes. Six dead giraffes. Six dead giraffes in Kenya. Six giraffes died in Kenya from drought. Six giraffes died in Kenya from drought caused by global warming. Six giraffes died in Kenya from drought caused by global warming, in turn caused by humanity. Six giraffes died in Kenya from drought caused by global warming, in turn caused by humanity - including myself and you who read. Six giraffes died in Kenya from drought caused by global...

Stories and News No. 1174   Listen. Listen to me. Listen and think carefully about the public speeches of the most famous leaders. I am talking about the most quoted, shared, tagged or just trolled. The result is the same, nowadays, and you know it. The most important thing is that we talk about it. So, take note of this: the future belongs to the patriots . Yes, you heard fine and better understood, I hope. Also keep this in mind: an extraordinarily unique place on the planet earth like the Amazon rainforest is not being devastated . Exactly, their words are precisely these. Consequently, consistently on this trail, let's stop once and for all with thinking and acting collectively and collaboratively . Enough with trying to unite and mediate , meet halfway and look for common points with which to compensate and, above all, minimize the conflicting differences. All of that belongs to the past. The future is on the wall , my sovereign friend. Friend … Who...

Stories and News No. 1131 As it has already been widely explained by many experts – also by the UN, regarding the link between migration and climate change , the latter are also among the reasons that have pushed South American farmers to move towards the USA. It's the atavistic conflict between up and down... Once upon a time a planet. I’m not necessarily talking about earth, so we can force the boundaries of possibilities and fear to dream. The planet, not the earth, was made of two parts. Above and below . Two men lived on them respectively. Well, I could also say two women. It would have been anyway a worthy beginning of a story. Indeed, much more deserving of page and words. However, this is not only a mere story, but also a problem, with lots of conflicts and as many unpleasant complications. So, I will talk about men, two to be precise. One lived on the upper side, on the north, at the top, and he was simply called that the man above . The other, for consis...

Stories and News No. 1125 This is the time . That’s now. The time when Yann Aguila, president of the environmental committee of the Club des Juristes, Antonio Herman Benjamin, magistrate at the National High Court of Brazil, the president of the IUCN world commission on environmental law, as well as former president of COP 21, Laurent Fabius and 128 others ask for the adoption of a third pact that establishes a new generation of fundamental commitments: the rights and duties of States, public and private bodies and people involved in environmental protection . Nevertheless, this is the moment . That’s today. The moment when the president of the most powerful and most polluting country in the world, who in the past had defined climate change as a "hoax", said that he will only take a look at the recent alarming report by the United Nations. This is also the moment when the Florida residents are preparing to face a frightening hurricane as they have never seen. Wit...

Stories and News No. 1066 His name is Tom , yes, like an average person. And, like an average person, you could say to him: "Hey, Tom, wait a minute..." Then, once you've gotten a little of his attention, you might add: "Tom, do you know that last year was one of the three hottest in history ever recorded? Did you understand how hot it is, Tom?" He could turn around as if he had not heard anything, continuing to go in circles around his monotonous existence. But maybe you could be one of those insistent. Maybe you'll try again: "Tom, you know? The data tell us that last year was among the three hottest even without El Niño . Can you see how hot it is, dear Tom?" Without any intention of interrupting his stupid dance, he could look at you with a confused expression. Then, with due patience, you could explain to him: "El Niño, Tom, it’s the climatic phenomenon that causes a considerable heating of the Central-Southern and Eastern Pac...

Stories and News No. 1027 The International Monetary Fund has called on the richest countries to help poor nations tackling climate change - which they’re often the original accountable ones, otherwise, weaker global growth and higher migration flows will be inevitable. Meanwhile, in places such as Bangladesh , nature laws lose their mind and upset families and homes. The door is air, the ceiling is sky and the floor is water...   Let's watch it together, the temporarily stolen picture. Chintan looks back over the boundaries of the latter and is rightly concerned. Mom of all and everything, Dhara , continues undaunted to deal with nourishing affections and hopes. Her older daughter, Sati , is studying her mother, studying as a mother, studying how to face the fate. The little one, Ahir , is also staring at the world beyond the deformed side of the mirror, as his older sister Padma too. Nevertheless, different moods and light are woven into their gaze. Chintan h...

Stories and News No. 1019 Once upon a time there were the people of the effects . You could add without cause , but it was deleted during the editing time. Because that’s how they do. What confuses them, forcing them to face questions, should be banned instantly, eliminated on the spot. In fact, they always go around with an eraser in their hands, and the keyboard key they prefer is obviously Del . They are used to easy words and concepts since they were kids. I’m talking about highly digestible food for modern-day minds, Ikea models, with thoughts and designs that even a child could assemble or disassemble. Therefore, there is no place in their brain for the reasons of world. Take, for example, that thing of climate change , their words. Apart from the fact that amongst all the unenviable causes, that’s perhaps the one that nowadays most requires a personal accountability - and it would be enough to condemn it to exile from their vocabulary, ignoring it, they’re at the sa...

Stories and News No. 1015 Once upon a time there was the golden toad ’s tale. That is, its conclusion. More than ever, in these burning times, where a giant iceberg , twice size of Luxembourg, has recently been broken in the Antarctic Peninsula, ahead of the now unavoidable climate change ’s bills we’ll have to pay in the coming decades, and the contextual need to tell positive examples too, inside the chronic, nowadays aptitude. Let's now take a leap in the past, reading in reverse the pages, coming back to the beginning of the story. So, we are in 1967 and the herpetologist Jay Mathers Savage , a reptile and amphibian researcher, is located in central Costa Rica, precisely Tilarán's cordillera. "Can you see that, too?" Savage says, whose name means he’s so far from being intimidated by the brutality of the most unspoiled nature. "Boss," a comrade exclaims, "a nugget! We found the gold, we are rich, we found the gold..." "But it’s ...

Stories and News No. 1006 Environmental news, as Arctic islands pollution and the consequences of global warming for nature and our cities , are becoming more and more unpleasant every day and, according to a dangerous media mechanism of addiction to topics requiring an attitude change, and a serious accountability, are increasingly confined to a neglected contour space. However, it’s not reality and all its urgencies to move away from us, but the opposite... They call it History , can you believe it? By studying, understanding and remembering it, right? I’m talking about ours, and all those who would have avoided it. The dominant species , so they call them, chiefly its richest leaders. Everything by blame, or cause, of an explosion, some claim. Everything thanks to a perfection of light and design, others trust. Depending on the point of view, just the fruit of a fortuitous or mischievous casualty, some others think. The result doesn’t change and this is the deceit c...