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Eviction Notice

Stories and News No. 1205   Hi everyone, dear planet neighbors, despite the illusion of distances. Here we are again at our residents' meetings. First of all, I need to say I am not the Building Manager. He left us suddenly, I'm sorry, and our prayers or simple thoughts are for him, I presume. On the other hand, today we are facing hard times, even if in the rest of the world it is ordinary life. However, this is not the moment for controversy. I said, I'm here to speak with no particular qualification. Nothing makes me more authoritative than the rest of you, and perhaps the seriousness of the situation lies on that too. Because when the danger affects everyone, well, the absence of worry and action makes further noise. In any case, I ask the secretary to take note of the discussion, hoping that the result of this meeting may be useful to posterity. Or, without going so far, to the simple visitors of the following day. Oops, silly me... there is no secretary ...

Every six seconds

Stories and News No. 1203   Every six seconds. Every six seconds, the time to slowly inhale the air in the lungs and to savor the essential and most underestimated conditioned act. Just six seconds, the time to exhale what remains of the human ritual, which we nourish both organs and life with, before whose connection we are still like infants in the presence of the immeasurable vastness of the celestial vault. In such neglected six seconds, the overrated species we are part of, dares to erase an entire primary forest as large as a football pitch, from the sacred natural design. That's exactly what happened in the past year. And well, the current assumptions make us think that we will even be able to beat this horrible record. Every six cursed seconds... Take a breath, then, and let’s recite together the time of such an insane misdeed: one, two, three, four, five and... six! Delete it, and yet another environmental work of art disappears in front of our eyes and fr...