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Stories and News No. 1037 According to the most comprehensive global analysis to date, every year, at least nine million people are killed by pollution , and it costs us trillions of dollars , endangering the survival of human societies. A little paradoxical contradiction, don’t you think? A phenomenon that is economically and at the same time humanly disadvantageous for all, yet neglected. As if we could not see where the dirt, the refusal, the wrong word is, despite being exactly in front of our eyes, hidden in the sheet that contains the story about us... Jack is a small creature. Small as a letter , although he often feels bigger than it is, where he screams his own arrogance with each drop of ink passing through himself. Mario thinks to be modern. Because he is so, until proven otherwise. He lives today before tomorrow, as if tomorrow was nothing more than today you are writing… yesterday. Yes it is, forgetting about what yesterday was, he only cares about the cur...

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. 1021 The world's chocolate industry is accountable for shocking deforestation in West Africa . The largest producers on the planet buy illegally cultivated cocoa in protected areas, particularly Ivory Coast , where rainforest has been reduced by more than 80% since 1960 . Once upon a time there was a split in half planet. Well, the above half was smaller, much smaller. Maybe because it was up in the stylish attic with a view of the luckiest horizon? In fact, I should have said two different half, that is, not exactly half , you know? So much for me and so much for you, equal to both, and so on, but in this case we should admit that the story itself is wrong. However, there would be no need to write the right one, you know? Coming back to the point, the half that half was not, but let's pretend it did, it was entirely made up of chocolate. Dark for sharpest bites or milk for tender teeth, chili for the brave palates or sushi for the fools, you ...

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...

Stories and News No. 1002 Here is the reign between the two paradoxical, at the same time mostly real, our illogical world’s extremes, which is equally irrationally still standing, despite everything. A leader who, with his mindless policies , is increasingly isolating himself, his country, and the whole humanity from the rest of the universe, and another who does the same thing plundering with missiles to provoke anger and fears in the former. There is, in the middle, a dream . A planet. I would only like to have a planet of simple measures and geometric shape, but not perfect, right? Something studied at school, plan from above and solid if you walked fast and curious on it. Yes, I’m talking about a planet inhabited by people with volatile heart and impulsive belly, but at the time of the need ready to step back. Because the reason is boring, that’s for sure, but it's the shiny eye that sees the pit on the street. And, at worse, that remembers the past fall. That i...

Stories and News No. 991 The $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline , that has sparked worldwide protests last year, is not yet fully operational and has already suffered a leak . Exactly what was particularly feared by Standing Rock’s Sioux , among the first to report the risk of contaminating and thus devastating the environment. Now, the usual, bitter and frustrated litany could come on stage, titled " I told you ". However, I like to think that the people of earth, proud to belong to the latter more than anything else, do not live in bitterness and frustration, waiting to enjoy the futile privilege of being able to boast some prophecy. On the contrary, I imagine a strenuous, noble, dignified struggle till the end that nobody should want... We do not want to be right. We do not want to be able to say, tomorrow, that we were on the right side. We would, rather, wish that you and us, together, could say it today and forever. We do not want to be right about the ab...

Stories and News No. 972 A recent UNICEF report states that climate change and conflicts are increasing risks for children living without enough water, and that the poorest among them will suffer more and more. The NGO WaterAid asks international and national leaders to keep their promises of reaching the objectives of sustainable development, including ensuring free access to safe drinking water and sanitation . Once upon a time there was the Water’s Day . I am talking her party, her birthday and name-day at the very same time. Now the room is packed, everybody is there. Or almost, as it often happens. This is a particular lounge for special celebrations, as there are no walls and ceilings, electrical wiring and air spaces, various fixtures and other human devilries. Because at the end of it, all would be a waste of time and time is not money, here. It is much more, it is water . Indeed, this is Water’s time. It is now and perhaps it always has been, on the planet by ...

Stories and News No. 958 In Cambodia the timber tycoons, working with local officials, are seriously undermining the survival of the Prey Lang’s forest. In defense of the latter there is Leng Ouch , who reveals to fear for his life and his loved ones, but that does not stop him. Because Leng is one of them... In Cambodia there are trees. In Cambodia there are crazy trees. Because it’s so everywhere, if you think about it. If you think about it carefully, nowadays you are really crazy to choose to be born tree, in this world. Also river or lake would be would as much risky choices, if not masochistic. But you know how vulnerable minds are, ready to be crossed by every living thing desired, with a tirelessly heart, which makes it noteworthy of a story. So, where the trees lost their mind to think of being the center of the universe, they themselves narrate tales and dreams. To see everything and everyone as souls composed of plant and root. Still only at birth and death....