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ENVIRONMENT
Urgencias climáticas
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03 January 2012
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Ignacio Ramonet
Le Monde Diplomatique
La grave crisis financiera y el horror económico que padecen las sociedades europeas están haciendo olvidar que –como lo recordó, en diciembre pasado, la Cumbre del clima de Durban, en Sudáfrica– el cambio climático y la destrucción de la biodiversidad siguen siendo los principales peligros que amenazan a la humanidad. Si no modificamos rápidamente el modelo de producción dominante, impuesto por la globalización económica, alcanzaremos el punto de no retorno a partir del cual la vida humana en el planeta dejará poco a poco de ser soportable.
Hace unas semanas, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) anunció el nacimiento del ser humano número siete mil millones, una niña filipina llamada Dánica. En poco más de cincuenta años, el número de habitantes de la Tierra se ha multiplicado por 3,5. Y la mayoría de ellos vive ahora en ciudades. Por primera vez los campesinos son menos numerosos que los urbanos. Entre tanto, los recursos del planeta no aumentan. Y surge una nueva preocupación geopolítica: ¿qué pasará cuando se agrave la penuria de algunos recursos naturales? Estamos descubriendo con estupefacción que nuestro “ancho mundo” es finito...
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Cumbre del clima en Durban Marchando hacia el precipicio
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11 December 2011
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Noam Chomsky
La Jornada
Una tarea de la Convención Marco sobre Cambio Climático de Naciones Unidas, que en la actualidad está teniendo lugar en Durban, Sudáfrica, es extender las decisiones políticas previas, limitadas en alcance y solamente parcialmente aplicadas.
Estas decisiones se remontan a la Convención de 1992 de la ONU y al Protocolo de Kyoto de 1997, al que Estados Unidos rehusó unirse. El primer periodo de compromiso del Protocolo de Kyoto termina en 2012. El ambiente más o menos general anterior a la conferencia fue capturado por The New York Times en un titular:
Asuntos urgentes, pero bajas expectativas
Conforme los delegados se reúnen en Durban, un informe sobre un nuevo resumen actualizado de sondeos realizados por el Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores y el Programa sobre Actitudes Políticas Internacionales (PIPA, por sus siglas en inglés) revela que
los públicos de todo el mundo y en Estados Unidos dicen que sus gobiernos deben dar a una prioridad más alta al calentamiento global y apoyan vigorosamente acciones multilaterales para atenderlo.
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La Diputación de Gipuzkoa se reafirma en abogar por una moratoria para la incineradora
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30 November 2011
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INCINERADORA
El diputado guipuzcoano de Medio Ambiente, Juan Karlos Alduntzin, ha anunciado que el ente foral apuesta por aplicar una moratoria al proyecto de la incineradora en Zubieta, con el fin de fomentar un debate entre la ciudadanía respecto a este tema.
DONOSTIA-. El titular de Medio Ambiente de la Diputación de Gipuzkoa, Juan Karlos Alduntzin, ha anunciado que la institución foral es favorable a aplicar una moratoria al proyecto para la construcción de una incineradora en Zubieta.Sin embargo, desde la Diputación han recalcado que la última decisión corresponde al Consorcio de Residuos.
Durante el tiempo que dure la moratoria, la Diputación fomentará el debate entre la ciudadanía respecto a este tema, ha señalado a preguntas del PNV.
Sobre esta materia se ha pronunciado esta mañana el diputado general, Martin Garitano, en Infozazpi Irratia, donde ha sido explícito al afirmar que "en relación con el tratamiento de residuos, nosotros tenemos una filosofía muy concreta y vamos a trabajar cumpliendo los acuerdos de la Mancomunidad, por supuesto".
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Six-year-old girl died from cold in Van centre
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23 November 2011
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Cold weather and hunger continue to claim lives in Van which has been hit by two major earthquakes in the last month. Six-year-old Öznur Örgün died of cold and hunger in the while fighting to survive under poor conditions in the nylon tents they set up themselves.
With six- year-old Öznur and one-year-old twins, Cemil and Pakize Örgün couple has been living under poor conditions in a nylon tent since the 7.2 magnitude earthquake on 23 October which forced them too to leave their houses and live on the street. Following one month full of difficulties in even eating and heating in the tent, Öznur became ill on 14 November. She was taken to Van Regional Training and Research Hospital put into intensive care but she couldn’t be saved and lost her life one day later. She was buried at the cemetery of the Halilağa neighborhood her family lives in.
While Öznur was taken to hospital with complaints of common cold, diarrhea and vomiting, the reason of her death was reported as inadequate nutrition, hyper dehydration and common cold.
Mother Pakize Örgün said the followings after her daughter’s dead; “We escaped death at the last minute in the earthquake but my daughter has died of cold now. We are desperate and I am now living in fear of losing my twins from the cold too. They have also become ill because of the cold which will kill them if they are not protected. We didn’t die in the earthquake but I have a fear of dying under these poor conditions.”
Father Cemil Örgün who had been working for a cement plant was dismissed from his work after the earthquake because of the remarkable increase in the plant’s production. Unemployed and incomeless father expresses the situation as follows; “We have nowhere to go and I don’t know what to do. Nobody has helped us so far. We have found shelter under the tent we put up by our own means but all of us will die here if it continues like this.”
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Sobre transgénicos, agroecología, democracia y capitalismo
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15 November 2011
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Jorge Riechmann
Rebelión
Reflexiones para concluir las jornadas “Los transgénicos en el ámbito científico, agrícola, medioambiental y de la salud”, Escuela de Organización Industrial (Madrid), 10 y 11 de noviembre de 2011
Sobreestimamos lo que sabemos –en una manifestación “de libro” de la ilusión de control que estudian los psicólogos— y las empresas buscan beneficios rápidos con aplicaciones de potentísimas tecnologías cuyas consecuencias se nos escapan todavía más… Nuestro lenguaje expresa ese exceso de confianza “estructural”, nuestro “ir sobrados”, apresados en la ilusión de control. Hablamos por ejemplo de cómo hemos “descifrado” el genoma humano (u otros genomas), pero nada de eso: sólo lo hemos secuenciado, vale decir descrito su estructura química. Aunque estamos lejísimos de saber cómo funciona, de comprender el significado de las letras y palabras (los genes, permítaseme la imprecisión) que componen ese genoma…
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Quake-hit Van a ‘ghost city,’ governor says
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15 November 2011
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AP, ANKARA
Earthquake survivors receive food aid in Erciş, near the eastern turkish city of Van. (Photo: Reuters)
Two powerful earthquakes that struck eastern Turkey have left a city of half a million a virtual ghost town, and survivors need relief aid desperately, a local official said Monday.
A magnitude-7.2 quake last month and a magnitude-5.7 quake last week flattened some 2,000 buildings, killed 644 people and left thousands homeless in the eastern Turkish province of Van, where an unusually cold November is forcing survivors to endure even more suffering.Very few state-owned buildings in the provincial capital, also called Van, survived the quake, provincial Gov. Munir Karaloğlu told the state-run Anatolia news agency. Many residents have fled because they fear going back into their homes even if they are not damaged.
"It is a ghost city," said Karaloğlu. "Almost none of the buildings are in use."
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Quake victims in tents battle freezing cold
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14 November 2011
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ISTANBUL
Photo: AA
Quake victims in Van are grappling with severe weather conditions as the temperature decreased to seven degrees below zero and snow covered much of the region over the weekend, sparking questions over how locals will survive a tough winter in tents after news reports coming out of the region said that a 6-year-old child died on Saturday after he caught cold in a tent.
The weather is biggest challenge for locals in Van and Erciş, which were hit by two separate quakes, the first one on Oct. 23 registering a magnitude of 7.2, and the second on Nov. 9 with a magnitude of 5.7, which left thousands of people homeless in the face of freezing cold. The “white death” is the nightmare of locals as the temperature has already dropped to seven degrees below zero. People dare not even think of how cold it could be in January.
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Fresh quake in Turkey's Van kills at least 8, dozens trapped
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10 November 2011
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TODAYSZAMAN.COM WITH AP
One of the collapsed buildings was the Bayram Hotel, Van's best-known hotel. It was at least 40 years old, and had been renovated last year. (Photo: Today's Zaman)
Rescue workers have pulled out some 26 survivors from the rubble of three buildings, collapsed by an earthquake in eastern Turkey, the country's disaster management authority said Thursday. At least eight were killed and dozens of others trapped.
Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay said Wednesday's quake toppled 25 buildings in the city of Van but only three of them were occupied since the others have been evacuated after suffering damages in last month's powerful temblor. The magnitude-5.7 quake was a grim replay of the previous magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Oct. 23, killing more than 600 people.
Rescue workers speeded up their search for survivors by daylight on Thursday, trying to open tunnels into the debris, CNN-Turk television reported. The workers used the glare of high-powered lights to work throughout the night despite several aftershocks.
Atalay said Thursday that the rescue work was concentrating at the site of two collapsed hotels and one apartment building. The disaster management authority said 23 survivors were pulled out along with the bodies of seven people.
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Cost of anticipated countrywide urban renewal project estimated at $255 bln
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29 October 2011
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TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
A construction worker hoses down the debris of a building demolished by a buldozer during an urban renewal study in the western province of İzmir.
An anticipated countrywide urban renewal project in the wake of earthquake danger could create a construction market with a total investment size of $255 billion (TL 448.8 billion), analysts say. Following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that rocked the southeastern province of Van on Sunday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the government would embark on a comprehensive state-sponsored construction plan to build safe and sustainable cities in the face of the earthquake reality.
Turkey sits on a land crisscrossed by three major fault lines and a majority of the buildings across the country are desperately in need of reinforcement so that their vulnerability to an earthquake can be minimized. Sunday's earthquake, the second worst since 1999 when a magnitude 7.6 quake in the western city of İzmit killed 17,000 people, has killed 570 and left thousands homeless in Van.
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Mugitu! dice que buscaba "dañar" la imagen de Barcina
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29 October 2011
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PROTESTA CONTRA EL TAV
El movimiento anti TAV ha criticado la "manipulación política" que se esconde tras la detención de dos activistas esta tarde y ha explicado que "los tartazos son una forma de protesta en todo el mundo".
Yolanda Barcina se dispone a retirarse tras recibir los tartazos. (MUGITU!)
IRUÑEA-. El colectivo Mugitu! ha explicado esta tarde que con los tartazos a Yolanda Barcina buscaba "dañar su imagen pública" como dirigente de la Comunidad de Trabajo de los Pirineos (CTP).
El portavoz del movimiento Mikel Álvarez ha subrayado que la acción no tuvo "carácter violento", sino que pretendía "dañar su imagen".
Al respecto, ha señalado que "los tartazos son una forma de protesta y denuncia que se usa en todo el mundo" y tienen un "carácter cómico y reivindicativo" y, en ningún caso, pretenden causar daños físicos, como a su juicio lo demuestra la "normalidad" con la que su acción fue recibida en Toulouse, donde el grupo de activistas se retiró "sin ningún problema".
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