Ecological Consequences of Deforestation The primary ecological consequences of deforestation are decline in biodiversity, invasion of exotic species, destruction of hydrological cycle, increase in water runoff and decrease in water quality, and acceleration of soil erosion. Tropical forests contain between 70% and 90% of all world species and because of deforestation the planet loses between 50 and 130 animal and plant species each day!
10% Of World's Wilderness Has Been Lost In Past 25 Years, Study Finds
The ecological consequences are critical
“If this rate continues, we will have lost all wilderness within the next 50 years.” – James Watson
In the past two decades, 10 percent of the earth’s wilderness has been lost due to human pressure, a mapping study by Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) has found.
Las autoridades mexicanas están alertandoa la población porque los jóvenes empiezan a consumir la droga en algunos casos a partir de los 10 y los 11 años de edad. Informan que entre 2016 y 2017 se registró un aumento del 100%, al pasar de 1.3% a 2.6%, de acuerdo con la Encuesta Nacional de Consumo de Drogas, Alcohol y Tabaco. Todos los indicios confirman quela legalización estimula y facilita el vicio.
El consumo de marihuana en México se duplica entre los menores de edad
Mexico DF, Dic.4.– La marihuana es la droga ilegal más consumida en México. Más de siete millones de mexicanos, un 8,6% de los adultos entre los 18 y los 65 años de edad, aseguran que la han probado al menos una vez. Este porcentaje se duplicó entre 2011 y 2015, lo que hace a la mariguana la droga que más crece en el país. Los consumidores que la utilizaron en los últimos 12 meses pasaron del 1,2% al 2,1% en cinco años, según datos oficiales.
We may learn from recent history that globalization has not been a smooth process. The rapid trade volume increase and initial ourput growth caused by the fast and wide globalization trend during the last 70 years went often together with major shifts in the relative size of the economies involved. According to a World Trade Organization report, the "structure and size of international capital flows has varied greatly over the last 60 years. In the aftermath of WWII, the economies of Europe and Japan suffered large trade deficits and could generate only limited savings for rebuilding their capital stock. The Marshall Plan, the European Payments Union and at a later stage United States’ foreign direct investment (FDI) provided the necessary liquidity for the expansion of international trade." Those remedies are no longer available. The facts in recent years prove that the gap in incomes between the 20% of the world's population in the richest and poorest countries has grown considerably and per capita incomes have fallen in more than 70 countries over the past 20 years. A reassessment of this trend is essential. The Economist offers its own point of view on this issue:
Globalisation’s losers – The right way to help declining places
Time for fresh thinking about the changing economics of geography
Oct.21.– Populism's wave has yet to crest. That is the sobering lesson of recent elections in Germany and Austria, where the success of anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties showed that a message of hostility to elites and outsiders resonates as strongly as ever among those fed up with the status quo. It is also the lesson from America, where Donald Trump is doubling down on gestures to his angry base, most recently by adopting a negotiating position on NAFTA that is more likely to wreck than remake the trade agreement (see article).
These remedies will not work. The demise of NAFTA will disproportionately hurt the blue-collar workers who back Mr Trump. Getting tough on immigrants will do nothing to improve economic conditions in eastern Germany, where 20% of voters backed the far-right Alternative for Germany. But the self-defeating nature of populist policies will not blunt their appeal. Mainstream parties must offer voters who feel left behind a better vision of the future, one that takes greater account of the geographical reality behind the politics of anger.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Norweigan Nobel Committee says award made ""in recognition of work to draw attention to catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons".
Physics
Barry Barish
Kip Thorne
Rainer Weiss
"For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
Corruption is flooding Latin American democracies and leading to their disintegration, until they fall into the hands of ambitious populist politicians who end up destroying the remnants of the rule of law and sink their countries into a corrupt totalitarianism from whose grip peoples find it very difficult to free themselves. That is the stark reality in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, among others. It is essential to wake up the peoples of our Continent before it is too late, so that they understand that absolute power corrupts absolutely and work together to fight the enemies of democracy, crouched in the pit of totalitarianism. This initiative reported below aimed at the Latin American youth is a ray of hope.
