July 15, 2024 • 25 mins
Hay muchas cosas que podemos hacer para mitigar el avance del Cambio Climático y sus efectos sobre nuestra vida aquí en la Tierra. En este episodio te doy algunas pistas para que -entre todos- aportemos nuestro granito de arena. Tercera parte de la serie sobre El Cambio Climático.
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(00:01):
Or facing this climate change is atitanic task in which everyone is going to
have to put their bit of sand. Some will have to put some bigger
trucked granites, we could say,and others, like you or like me,
(00:22):
ordinary citizens, will have to putwhat we can make some sacrifices and
very surely, changing our lifestyle,which I know, I know, is
not easy, but it will touchus, Brother, we will touch the
actions that we can do to faceclimate change. I will divide them into
(00:48):
two groups, on the one hand, mitigation actions and, on the other
hand, adaptation actions. Those ofmitigation are those that we can do or
stop doing to reduce or mitigate tothe maximum the emission of greenhouse gases or
the sumos those that cause the heatto get trapped in the atmosphere and thus
we are warmed up the soil,as I explained in the previous episodes of
(01:12):
this series on climate change, becauseit turns out that as the greater production
of those gases is given by theuse of fossil fuels, like gasoline.
He says the kerosene coal and gasthat we use in everything and for everything
in our lives. The most importantmitigation action, in which we all have
(01:34):
to commit ourselves, is to stopusing little by little and to the extent
possible, everything that works or hasto do with oil and its derivatives and
then move on to using other sourcesof energy that do not dirty the air,
that do not produce those greenhouse gasesor those fumes, as I have
(01:56):
already said. But what are thosesources of energy that we could call clean,
because the wind through mills, thesun with solar panels, the water
or, rather, the movement ofwater bodies, as in hydroelectric plants,
where they allow water streams that moveturbines to pass and so the energy is
(02:17):
produced, or the tides or swellsthat, with their permanent movement, can
also be used to move a kindof turbines that produce energies, all examples
of clean energy sources. And wellthat shift from using dirty sources of energy
(02:38):
like oil and its derivatives to cleansources of energy. It is the very
famous energy transition that will enable usto stop producing smoke and thus halt the
accelerated progress of climate change. Thisis from the Caribbean and other tulips and
(03:07):
I' m Carlos Flores Urbina,I' m a biologist, but above
all the pods I' m abad- born on the shores of the
Caribbean Sea and at the foot ofthe majestic Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
I' m talking to you fromHolland. Before we continue, I want
(03:30):
to let you know that I needyour support to continue doing this work with
interesting topics and the quality I use. I invite those who value my work
to support me with a monthly financialcontribution, signing up for my PLATFORMAWW pattern
with Slash from the Caribbean and othertulips. Thank you very much. Episodes
(04:00):
seventy- four. My parents'couch series climate change. Part Three,
so that we can all stop usinggasoline for kerosene cars for airplanes, says
(04:24):
the for factory engines, or coalor gas for thermoelectrics that provide us,
among others, electricity pods for homes. Everyone here is gonna have to get
their hands on. The greatest responsibilitylies with Governments, which will have to
define clear policies that facilitate, facilitateand finance in part the processes necessary for
(04:46):
that energy transition. Energy generating companies, of course, will also have to
look at how they switch from producingenergy with coal or gas, or or
or disel to using, for example, windmills or solar panels. If they
don' t, they' lldisappear and new businesses will come and they
(05:10):
will. And we also have companiesor factories that produce consumer goods anything,
machines, appliances, computers, cars. All these companies are going to have
to offer products first at reasonable pricesthat, as we have already seen in
the market, have a very lowenergy consumption or that operate 100% with
(05:31):
clean energy, but also that,in the process of manufacturing these products,
the emission of greenhouse gases is zero. It' s not a simple thing.
It requires innovation, getting out ofsearch, a good ticket and decisions,
but that' s why it's time to start soon and so,
(05:55):
little by little to achieve that changeor energy transition so that those who
have problems with the changes or leavingtheir comfort zone, as they call it
now, get used to it anddon' t fall all over them and
feel that the world is getting upset. But anyway, this process of energy
transition is not happening overnight and,in addition, it is not as simple
(06:17):
as it seems. Imagine that Hollandwants all the new cars on the market
to be electric in the two thousandthirty, but they have encountered a little
bit of a small problem. Itturns out that there is not enough physical
(06:39):
capacity to install all over the countrybefore two thousand thirty all the charging points
that are going to be required sothat everyone can recharge their cart the moment
they need it. Oh, howI keep my eye on you. They
' re working him hard. That' s fine, but the sheath is
complicated. On the other hand,the European Union wants all the energy produced,
(07:00):
whether from renewable sources, from thesun, wind, water or nuclear,
in the two hundred and two thousandand fifty, here in Europe.
But now they are facing a problemthat touches us ordinary citizens. To meet
this goal of two thousand and fifty, it is up to us in Europe
to install, for example, cypots, windmills or turbines, as they call
(07:26):
it now everywhere to produce all theenergy needed. Because Holland is such a
small country, there is almost nospace here that is not built and there
are houses everywhere. Then those newmills, which are gigantic sheaths two hundred
and eighty meters high. Imagine thoseare gonna stay close to homes or neighborhoods
(07:49):
and nobody. But so, noone wants that sheath there' s a
neighbor, because, by far,the mill is something cool duty and even
fascinating romantic we would say the mostillusory is that one gets drunk looking at
that sheath going around there. Butliving near such a mill can cause some
(08:11):
health problems. You know what it' s like to have every day a
gigantic shadow that goes through your houseevery two seconds. Or the noise of
those blades. Yum yum yum,or what' s worse, with some
of those grinders, this noise thatI' m going to let them hear
you record it a few months agoin a mill field in the north of
(08:33):
the country. Listen to him andtell me if you wouldn' t go
crazy with that sheath in your earday and night, seven days a week,
three hundred sixty- five days ayear. Here I give it to
you hard go. So that energytransition thing isn' t, like my
dad used to say, blow andmake bottles. The pod has to be
(08:56):
well studied, well thought out,planned and executed so that the remedy is
not worse than the disease. But, well, if governments do their part,
companies and factories do theirs or theydon' t do it that we
(09:16):
people, like you or me,have to do to mitigate or slow down
the production of greenhouse gases or smokes. Well here I will throw some ideas
or actions that we can do fromour position as responsible citizens. Ah ok
me, I know some things cancost tickets and we' re not all
(09:39):
in a position to pay them.And I also know that other things do
not apply to certain parts of theworld or in some countries. But as
this podcast listens to it everywhere,I' m going to give them the
whole story anyway and everyone decides whetheror not they can or don' t
apply for their situation or not.And either we' re not gonna fight
(10:00):
for that or we' re notgonna fight. I start by saying that
it is important to always be awarethat, in the long run, everything
we do today generates greenhouse gas emissions. So, before you do anything,
(10:22):
take a moment and think about howyou could do the same thing you want
to do, but in a waythat causes less emissions. A simple example.
If you have to go out foran errand or do an errand,
as we say in Santa Marta,there near your house, 500 meters or
up to a kilometer, to thestore, to the notary, to the
(10:46):
bank or to have coffee with friends. Man, go on foot walk or
if you can start by bike.So it' s easy to walk a
kilometer. It takes you 12 minutes, 12 minutes. That' s nothing.
And if you ride a bike,it' ll take you four minutes
to save. Gasoline does not producesmoke and serves health and physical condition.
What else does one want and ifyou have to go a little further to
(11:11):
the office. For example, goby public transport and join the village.
That' s more efficient and lesspolluting than one person per car or then
share a car with your neighbors andone day they go in the car of
one and the other day in thecar of the other, and so they
(11:33):
take turns. There' s anextra pod. It turns out that we
all cause two emissions of desire indirectly, without realizing it or being aware of
it. That' s why it' s time to think a little bit
before you act. Imagine that youneed to buy a pound of beans and
then you have two options. Thefirst lowers the market square and buys them
(11:58):
to the manque brought from its plotclose to the city. The man gives
them to you in a paper bag, you put them in your basket and
you' re ready to walk home. The second option is that canned grocery
shopping tagged with condom additives, dyesand flavorings and brought in. Who knows
(12:22):
where you stare at the can andthink about all the gas emissions that were
necessary for you to have that canin your hands, the ones from the
factory that makes the cans, theone from the factory that processed and packed
the beans, the one that preparedthe flavorings and other pods and add to
(12:43):
it all the smoke that was emittedby the national, local, regional or
even international transport, that was necessaryto carry all those pods from one side
to the other until put them inthe supermarket. If you see the difference,
well and I leave you with thatsecond task. Every time you want
to buy some pods, do thatexercise of thinking about what is needed or
(13:07):
what are the steps of a product' s so- called production chain.
Until it reaches our hands. They' re going to realize that everything,
but so everything we do is leavinga polluting footprint on the road, the
footprint of the ecological footprint they calland the idea is to choose the option
(13:28):
that leaves the least footprint to contaminateand the least gases or fumes to produce.
About buying things before you start tothink how many so two are emitted
throughout the manufacturing process of what youwant to buy. I have a more
interesting and fixed suggestion that helps toslow the progress of climate change because it
(13:50):
produces nothing. You wish two tostop him balls. I propose you buy
less stuff, less chechers, lesspods. We have houses full of things
that we don' t use oruse once and now people seem to have
gone crazy buying, buying, buyingand buying. I see, friends,
(14:11):
that every two years or every threeyears, for example, they change the
sofa and the furniture of the houseche and that sheath for what my parents,
for example, and I' msure that, like many couples of
that generation had all their lives untilthey died, the same set of living
room furniture sent him to repair,to upholster, to paint a little,
(14:33):
to varnish and such and those ofthe dining room changed them only once in
his life and those of the livingroom. Now my sisters have inherited them
and they are divided among their houses. An amazing sheath. That was the
generation of austerity, of simplicity inhomes. There really wasn' t anything
left over. What was there wasbecause it was needed and used daily.
(14:56):
That is no longer seen every dayvoting almost new pods and we buy new
ones to replace them, without havingany idea of the amount of greenhouse gases
that are emitted to make all thoseto produce them and, worse still,
without thinking about the amount of rawmaterials that are needed, such as to
(15:18):
make a wooden sofa that is removedfrom the felling, from trees, fabrics
that are removed, from cotton cropsor synthetic materials that are made in polluting
iron factories for springs and nails thatare extracted from mines in China, Brazil
or Australia and then take it totreatment plants with impressive ovens that emit so
(15:39):
much better said for me to follow. Then, instead of buying, buying,
and buying, take the soft oneand take the soft one, lower
it to the rough consumption and,if you can better, buy second-
(16:00):
hand things or send to stop whatyou can and recycle good. So here
we carry the following tasks or suggestions. Suggestions one, If you' re
going to do something, take amoment and think about how you could do
that same thing you want to do, but in a way that causes less
(16:22):
emissions two, Before you buy something, think about all the raw materials and
gas emissions that are necessary to makethat which you want to buy. And
three, leave the shopkeeper there,leave the shopkeeper that sofa you have there
in the living room. He's still holding you for a little while.
I know a lot of people aregoing to say what, and this
(16:45):
manches I am already. It's true. Carlos Flores went crazy,
eh, but not my brother,well suddenly a little bit, but not
what happens is that we have tounderstand that it was up to us to
change our way of living life,to change our customs, to change that
way of life, to change thatstyle of wealth, that we carry things
(17:07):
that until today we have done automaticallywithout thinking about the damage that we are
doing ourselves, destroying the earth.We have to re- use what the
land offers us in a sustainable way, with respect, because if we continue
like this, this sheath won't last long and there if it'
s going to take us mandinga.There are many other things we can do
(17:34):
to mitigate the progress of climate change, and many of you have surely already
heard them. Among those things areproducing our own energy with solar panels and
if you can' t have panels, then it saves real energy. Right.
Another thing is to have an orphanin a small garden, on the
balcony or in the courtyard, withsome tomatics, cucumbers, peppers, and
(17:57):
so you don' t have togo to the market or to the supermarket
and save yourself that Bacan ticket.No We must also protect the water from
rivers and streams and, as faras possible, store rainwater and, in
general, save water, stop wastingit, washing cars with hose. Every
(18:18):
day sheath that seems to me tobe the last straw. Those who have
bath hair in three or maximum fourminutes homb and those who are peeled as
well as me, two minutes aremore than enough to get one smelling like
rich. By the way, theydon' t think it' s incredible
that we use drinking water to emptythe toilets. We really are a very
(18:41):
rare species. Another little thing orrather Kosota that they can do is plant
trees as simple as you can,wherever you go, invite and motivate your
friends, family, coworkers, whoeverthey are and organize in all those moves
(19:04):
and sow trees together, take thepeeled ones, let them also participate and
feel committed to the care of thetrees, that they become friends of the
trees, so that never in theirlives they can think of cutting any,
something that many current politicians lack tobecome friends of the trees. And with
(19:27):
this came the last activity that Iwant to tell you about and that can
help mitigate the effects of climate changeon the earth or the advances of climate
change on Earth. And it's very simple. It is about doing
things, thinking or inventing activities toinvolve and engage more people in this task
(19:48):
that we have as humanity. I' m going to tell you something that
I did many years ago and sosurely many people could have thought again that
I was crazy, but over theyears, the time, I think I
was right. Here I go withthat story. Ever since my peels were
small. My wife and I havealways talked to you about the importance of
(20:12):
nature, of caring for animals,of protecting forests, etcetera, etcetera.
Dads, canzones, but aha,what else can you expect from dads.
Biologists and they have always seen usin those pods and surely noticed when we
installed the solar panels on the roofof the house or when we put the
(20:32):
barrel to store some rain in thecourtyard. And all those pods we could
say that, without wanting to indoctrinatethem with our behavior, because it turns
out that one day as I tellthem a long time ago, when they
were fine little ones, I grabbedsome cardboards and put them on the table
in the room and I called themand I said, hey come here let
(20:56):
' s think among all things thatwill help us save light here in the
house and that are like things thatwe can all do here. Okay,
and I told them if we cansave light on the money, we'
ll save on the receipts. I' ll give it to you. At
the end of the year, thepeeled ones were excited about one and especially
the smallest one until he dropped thechupo from his mouth and began, along
(21:18):
with his brother, to let goof ideas that we would turn off the
room light, when we were notin the room, that we would play
on the street and not be ontelevision all afternoon that we would not leave
the fridge open and things like that, a little bit of pods. Well,
Chéveres and I, in the meantime, were writing all the ideas on
the cardboards. In the end wehad a list of eight or ten little
(21:41):
things to do. I hung upthe billboard in the Dining Room and in
the following months the peeled ones werelooking forward to fulfilling things. At the
end of the year, we actuallyhad a savings of about twenty or thirty
euros, or those happy manes withyour ticket. That exercise was never done
again, and we never talked aboutit again. Or at least I don
(22:03):
' t remember, because the peeledones are already men and we almost didn
' t even talk about these issuesUntil a couple of weeks ago I told
the youngest of them about the chupothat I was preparing these episodes about climate
change in the podcast and that ifI had any idea that could help me,
the truth is that I thought that, as normal, with the peeled
(22:26):
ones of now I was going tosay girl you' re crazy I'
m going to know about that podhow well, how wrong I was the
man started to give me ideas.We talked a little bit about climate change,
rather the one left with its mouthopen. Now I asked him if
he remembered that exercise we had donewith the cardboard and told me that he
(22:48):
didn' t remember. But apparently, the seed that I sowed on it
when it was a little hair germinatedand if all indicates that he is aware
of the importance of the environment toour life. Bano and with the oldest
of our children that man already livesin his own house, with his girlfriend
(23:08):
and there they have all kinds oftechnological sheaths to save energy, to save
water, to properly dispose of garbageas much as possible, do not use
plastic, go by bicycle to workand, most bacano of all, do
not change the sofa Every two yearsthere are many more sheaths that we can
(23:40):
all do to help in mitigating theadvances of climate change. The Internet is
full of people who share their experiences, universities, environmental organizations. There are
many citizen initiatives that one can linkto to do things, but also to
learn more about how we can putour grain of sand. Seek without fear
(24:02):
dare to ask and to cast forward. I am sure that once you take
the first step, you will loveit and every day you will want to
do more and more, because,after all, what you do today will
be for the well- being ofour peeled ones and the children of our
peeled ones and so on and soon. As you can tell. In
this episode I spoke only about mitigationactions, but I still lack adaptation actions,
(24:23):
those that will allow us to learnto live with the climate changes that
we already begin to feel and thosethat will appear over time. I feel
sorry for you, but it's my turn to leave it for the
next episode, because it' stoo long already. When I thought about
working on this climate change issue withthe podcast. I thought in two episodes
(24:47):
I' d have it ready,but nothing was extended to four. But
what happens is that it is asubject that needs to be talked about well
so that we all understand the urgencyof facing it and for people to get
excited and decide to put their bitof sand on one. See you then
in the next episode. I don' t take them any longer, nor
(25:08):
am I going to put on Charlesthe cantalette asking them to subscribe to my
www platform. Patren as it isin the Caribbean and another tulips. Nothing,
that sheath. We leave that forlater, for when there' s
time and they' re not sleepy. But what I do want to take
advantage of is to thank my dearLina María Uribe, who has begun to
(25:30):
support me through the platform. Thankyou, Lina, this is from the
Caribbean and other tulips and I'm Carlos Flores Urbina. Thank you so
much for listening and bye.
Or facing this climate change is atitanic task in which everyone is going to
have to put their bit of sand. Some will have to put some bigger
trucked granites, we could say,and others, like you or like me,
(00:22):
ordinary citizens, will have to putwhat we can make some sacrifices and
very surely, changing our lifestyle,which I know, I know, is
not easy, but it will touchus, Brother, we will touch the
actions that we can do to faceclimate change. I will divide them into
(00:48):
two groups, on the one hand, mitigation actions and, on the other
hand, adaptation actions. Those ofmitigation are those that we can do or
stop doing to reduce or mitigate tothe maximum the emission of greenhouse gases or
the sumos those that cause the heatto get trapped in the atmosphere and thus
we are warmed up the soil,as I explained in the previous episodes of
(01:12):
this series on climate change, becauseit turns out that as the greater production
of those gases is given by theuse of fossil fuels, like gasoline.
He says the kerosene coal and gasthat we use in everything and for everything
in our lives. The most importantmitigation action, in which we all have
(01:34):
to commit ourselves, is to stopusing little by little and to the extent
possible, everything that works or hasto do with oil and its derivatives and
then move on to using other sourcesof energy that do not dirty the air,
that do not produce those greenhouse gasesor those fumes, as I have
(01:56):
already said. But what are thosesources of energy that we could call clean,
because the wind through mills, thesun with solar panels, the water
or, rather, the movement ofwater bodies, as in hydroelectric plants,
where they allow water streams that moveturbines to pass and so the energy is
(02:17):
produced, or the tides or swellsthat, with their permanent movement, can
also be used to move a kindof turbines that produce energies, all examples
of clean energy sources. And wellthat shift from using dirty sources of energy
(02:38):
like oil and its derivatives to cleansources of energy. It is the very
famous energy transition that will enable usto stop producing smoke and thus halt the
accelerated progress of climate change. Thisis from the Caribbean and other tulips and
(03:07):
I' m Carlos Flores Urbina,I' m a biologist, but above
all the pods I' m abad- born on the shores of the
Caribbean Sea and at the foot ofthe majestic Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
I' m talking to you fromHolland. Before we continue, I want
(03:30):
to let you know that I needyour support to continue doing this work with
interesting topics and the quality I use. I invite those who value my work
to support me with a monthly financialcontribution, signing up for my PLATFORMAWW pattern
with Slash from the Caribbean and othertulips. Thank you very much. Episodes
(04:00):
seventy- four. My parents'couch series climate change. Part Three,
so that we can all stop usinggasoline for kerosene cars for airplanes, says
(04:24):
the for factory engines, or coalor gas for thermoelectrics that provide us,
among others, electricity pods for homes. Everyone here is gonna have to get
their hands on. The greatest responsibilitylies with Governments, which will have to
define clear policies that facilitate, facilitateand finance in part the processes necessary for
(04:46):
that energy transition. Energy generating companies, of course, will also have to
look at how they switch from producingenergy with coal or gas, or or
or disel to using, for example, windmills or solar panels. If they
don' t, they' lldisappear and new businesses will come and they
(05:10):
will. And we also have companiesor factories that produce consumer goods anything,
machines, appliances, computers, cars. All these companies are going to have
to offer products first at reasonable pricesthat, as we have already seen in
the market, have a very lowenergy consumption or that operate 100% with
(05:31):
clean energy, but also that,in the process of manufacturing these products,
the emission of greenhouse gases is zero. It' s not a simple thing.
It requires innovation, getting out ofsearch, a good ticket and decisions,
but that' s why it's time to start soon and so,
(05:55):
little by little to achieve that changeor energy transition so that those who
have problems with the changes or leavingtheir comfort zone, as they call it
now, get used to it anddon' t fall all over them and
feel that the world is getting upset. But anyway, this process of energy
transition is not happening overnight and,in addition, it is not as simple
(06:17):
as it seems. Imagine that Hollandwants all the new cars on the market
to be electric in the two thousandthirty, but they have encountered a little
bit of a small problem. Itturns out that there is not enough physical
(06:39):
capacity to install all over the countrybefore two thousand thirty all the charging points
that are going to be required sothat everyone can recharge their cart the moment
they need it. Oh, howI keep my eye on you. They
' re working him hard. That' s fine, but the sheath is
complicated. On the other hand,the European Union wants all the energy produced,
(07:00):
whether from renewable sources, from thesun, wind, water or nuclear,
in the two hundred and two thousandand fifty, here in Europe.
But now they are facing a problemthat touches us ordinary citizens. To meet
this goal of two thousand and fifty, it is up to us in Europe
to install, for example, cypots, windmills or turbines, as they call
(07:26):
it now everywhere to produce all theenergy needed. Because Holland is such a
small country, there is almost nospace here that is not built and there
are houses everywhere. Then those newmills, which are gigantic sheaths two hundred
and eighty meters high. Imagine thoseare gonna stay close to homes or neighborhoods
(07:49):
and nobody. But so, noone wants that sheath there' s a
neighbor, because, by far,the mill is something cool duty and even
fascinating romantic we would say the mostillusory is that one gets drunk looking at
that sheath going around there. Butliving near such a mill can cause some
(08:11):
health problems. You know what it' s like to have every day a
gigantic shadow that goes through your houseevery two seconds. Or the noise of
those blades. Yum yum yum,or what' s worse, with some
of those grinders, this noise thatI' m going to let them hear
you record it a few months agoin a mill field in the north of
(08:33):
the country. Listen to him andtell me if you wouldn' t go
crazy with that sheath in your earday and night, seven days a week,
three hundred sixty- five days ayear. Here I give it to
you hard go. So that energytransition thing isn' t, like my
dad used to say, blow andmake bottles. The pod has to be
(08:56):
well studied, well thought out,planned and executed so that the remedy is
not worse than the disease. But, well, if governments do their part,
companies and factories do theirs or theydon' t do it that we
(09:16):
people, like you or me,have to do to mitigate or slow down
the production of greenhouse gases or smokes. Well here I will throw some ideas
or actions that we can do fromour position as responsible citizens. Ah ok
me, I know some things cancost tickets and we' re not all
(09:39):
in a position to pay them.And I also know that other things do
not apply to certain parts of theworld or in some countries. But as
this podcast listens to it everywhere,I' m going to give them the
whole story anyway and everyone decides whetheror not they can or don' t
apply for their situation or not.And either we' re not gonna fight
(10:00):
for that or we' re notgonna fight. I start by saying that
it is important to always be awarethat, in the long run, everything
we do today generates greenhouse gas emissions. So, before you do anything,
(10:22):
take a moment and think about howyou could do the same thing you want
to do, but in a waythat causes less emissions. A simple example.
If you have to go out foran errand or do an errand,
as we say in Santa Marta,there near your house, 500 meters or
up to a kilometer, to thestore, to the notary, to the
(10:46):
bank or to have coffee with friends. Man, go on foot walk or
if you can start by bike.So it' s easy to walk a
kilometer. It takes you 12 minutes, 12 minutes. That' s nothing.
And if you ride a bike,it' ll take you four minutes
to save. Gasoline does not producesmoke and serves health and physical condition.
What else does one want and ifyou have to go a little further to
(11:11):
the office. For example, goby public transport and join the village.
That' s more efficient and lesspolluting than one person per car or then
share a car with your neighbors andone day they go in the car of
one and the other day in thecar of the other, and so they
(11:33):
take turns. There' s anextra pod. It turns out that we
all cause two emissions of desire indirectly, without realizing it or being aware of
it. That' s why it' s time to think a little bit
before you act. Imagine that youneed to buy a pound of beans and
then you have two options. Thefirst lowers the market square and buys them
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to the manque brought from its plotclose to the city. The man gives
them to you in a paper bag, you put them in your basket and
you' re ready to walk home. The second option is that canned grocery
shopping tagged with condom additives, dyesand flavorings and brought in. Who knows
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where you stare at the can andthink about all the gas emissions that were
necessary for you to have that canin your hands, the ones from the
factory that makes the cans, theone from the factory that processed and packed
the beans, the one that preparedthe flavorings and other pods and add to
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it all the smoke that was emittedby the national, local, regional or
even international transport, that was necessaryto carry all those pods from one side
to the other until put them inthe supermarket. If you see the difference,
well and I leave you with thatsecond task. Every time you want
to buy some pods, do thatexercise of thinking about what is needed or
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what are the steps of a product' s so- called production chain.
Until it reaches our hands. They' re going to realize that everything,
but so everything we do is leavinga polluting footprint on the road, the
footprint of the ecological footprint they calland the idea is to choose the option
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that leaves the least footprint to contaminateand the least gases or fumes to produce.
About buying things before you start tothink how many so two are emitted
throughout the manufacturing process of what youwant to buy. I have a more
interesting and fixed suggestion that helps toslow the progress of climate change because it
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produces nothing. You wish two tostop him balls. I propose you buy
less stuff, less chechers, lesspods. We have houses full of things
that we don' t use oruse once and now people seem to have
gone crazy buying, buying, buyingand buying. I see, friends,
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that every two years or every threeyears, for example, they change the
sofa and the furniture of the houseche and that sheath for what my parents,
for example, and I' msure that, like many couples of
that generation had all their lives untilthey died, the same set of living
room furniture sent him to repair,to upholster, to paint a little,
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to varnish and such and those ofthe dining room changed them only once in
his life and those of the livingroom. Now my sisters have inherited them
and they are divided among their houses. An amazing sheath. That was the
generation of austerity, of simplicity inhomes. There really wasn' t anything
left over. What was there wasbecause it was needed and used daily.
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That is no longer seen every dayvoting almost new pods and we buy new
ones to replace them, without havingany idea of the amount of greenhouse gases
that are emitted to make all thoseto produce them and, worse still,
without thinking about the amount of rawmaterials that are needed, such as to
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make a wooden sofa that is removedfrom the felling, from trees, fabrics
that are removed, from cotton cropsor synthetic materials that are made in polluting
iron factories for springs and nails thatare extracted from mines in China, Brazil
or Australia and then take it totreatment plants with impressive ovens that emit so
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much better said for me to follow. Then, instead of buying, buying,
and buying, take the soft oneand take the soft one, lower
it to the rough consumption and,if you can better, buy second-
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hand things or send to stop whatyou can and recycle good. So here
we carry the following tasks or suggestions. Suggestions one, If you' re
going to do something, take amoment and think about how you could do
that same thing you want to do, but in a way that causes less
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emissions two, Before you buy something, think about all the raw materials and
gas emissions that are necessary to makethat which you want to buy. And
three, leave the shopkeeper there,leave the shopkeeper that sofa you have there
in the living room. He's still holding you for a little while.
I know a lot of people aregoing to say what, and this
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manches I am already. It's true. Carlos Flores went crazy,
eh, but not my brother,well suddenly a little bit, but not
what happens is that we have tounderstand that it was up to us to
change our way of living life,to change our customs, to change that
way of life, to change thatstyle of wealth, that we carry things
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that until today we have done automaticallywithout thinking about the damage that we are
doing ourselves, destroying the earth.We have to re- use what the
land offers us in a sustainable way, with respect, because if we continue
like this, this sheath won't last long and there if it'
s going to take us mandinga.There are many other things we can do
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to mitigate the progress of climate change, and many of you have surely already
heard them. Among those things areproducing our own energy with solar panels and
if you can' t have panels, then it saves real energy. Right.
Another thing is to have an orphanin a small garden, on the
balcony or in the courtyard, withsome tomatics, cucumbers, peppers, and
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so you don' t have togo to the market or to the supermarket
and save yourself that Bacan ticket.No We must also protect the water from
rivers and streams and, as faras possible, store rainwater and, in
general, save water, stop wastingit, washing cars with hose. Every
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day sheath that seems to me tobe the last straw. Those who have
bath hair in three or maximum fourminutes homb and those who are peeled as
well as me, two minutes aremore than enough to get one smelling like
rich. By the way, theydon' t think it' s incredible
that we use drinking water to emptythe toilets. We really are a very
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rare species. Another little thing orrather Kosota that they can do is plant
trees as simple as you can,wherever you go, invite and motivate your
friends, family, coworkers, whoeverthey are and organize in all those moves
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and sow trees together, take thepeeled ones, let them also participate and
feel committed to the care of thetrees, that they become friends of the
trees, so that never in theirlives they can think of cutting any,
something that many current politicians lack tobecome friends of the trees. And with
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this came the last activity that Iwant to tell you about and that can
help mitigate the effects of climate changeon the earth or the advances of climate
change on Earth. And it's very simple. It is about doing
things, thinking or inventing activities toinvolve and engage more people in this task
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that we have as humanity. I' m going to tell you something that
I did many years ago and sosurely many people could have thought again that
I was crazy, but over theyears, the time, I think I
was right. Here I go withthat story. Ever since my peels were
small. My wife and I havealways talked to you about the importance of
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nature, of caring for animals,of protecting forests, etcetera, etcetera.
Dads, canzones, but aha,what else can you expect from dads.
Biologists and they have always seen usin those pods and surely noticed when we
installed the solar panels on the roofof the house or when we put the
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barrel to store some rain in thecourtyard. And all those pods we could
say that, without wanting to indoctrinatethem with our behavior, because it turns
out that one day as I tellthem a long time ago, when they
were fine little ones, I grabbedsome cardboards and put them on the table
in the room and I called themand I said, hey come here let
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' s think among all things thatwill help us save light here in the
house and that are like things thatwe can all do here. Okay,
and I told them if we cansave light on the money, we'
ll save on the receipts. I' ll give it to you. At
the end of the year, thepeeled ones were excited about one and especially
the smallest one until he dropped thechupo from his mouth and began, along
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with his brother, to let goof ideas that we would turn off the
room light, when we were notin the room, that we would play
on the street and not be ontelevision all afternoon that we would not leave
the fridge open and things like that, a little bit of pods. Well,
Chéveres and I, in the meantime, were writing all the ideas on
the cardboards. In the end wehad a list of eight or ten little
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things to do. I hung upthe billboard in the Dining Room and in
the following months the peeled ones werelooking forward to fulfilling things. At the
end of the year, we actuallyhad a savings of about twenty or thirty
euros, or those happy manes withyour ticket. That exercise was never done
again, and we never talked aboutit again. Or at least I don
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' t remember, because the peeledones are already men and we almost didn
' t even talk about these issuesUntil a couple of weeks ago I told
the youngest of them about the chupothat I was preparing these episodes about climate
change in the podcast and that ifI had any idea that could help me,
the truth is that I thought that, as normal, with the peeled
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ones of now I was going tosay girl you' re crazy I'
m going to know about that podhow well, how wrong I was the
man started to give me ideas.We talked a little bit about climate change,
rather the one left with its mouthopen. Now I asked him if
he remembered that exercise we had donewith the cardboard and told me that he
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didn' t remember. But apparently, the seed that I sowed on it
when it was a little hair germinatedand if all indicates that he is aware
of the importance of the environment toour life. Bano and with the oldest
of our children that man already livesin his own house, with his girlfriend
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and there they have all kinds oftechnological sheaths to save energy, to save
water, to properly dispose of garbageas much as possible, do not use
plastic, go by bicycle to workand, most bacano of all, do
not change the sofa Every two yearsthere are many more sheaths that we can
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all do to help in mitigating theadvances of climate change. The Internet is
full of people who share their experiences, universities, environmental organizations. There are
many citizen initiatives that one can linkto to do things, but also to
learn more about how we can putour grain of sand. Seek without fear
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dare to ask and to cast forward. I am sure that once you take
the first step, you will loveit and every day you will want to
do more and more, because,after all, what you do today will
be for the well- being ofour peeled ones and the children of our
peeled ones and so on and soon. As you can tell. In
this episode I spoke only about mitigationactions, but I still lack adaptation actions,
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those that will allow us to learnto live with the climate changes that
we already begin to feel and thosethat will appear over time. I feel
sorry for you, but it's my turn to leave it for the
next episode, because it' stoo long already. When I thought about
working on this climate change issue withthe podcast. I thought in two episodes
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I' d have it ready,but nothing was extended to four. But
what happens is that it is asubject that needs to be talked about well
so that we all understand the urgencyof facing it and for people to get
excited and decide to put their bitof sand on one. See you then
in the next episode. I don' t take them any longer, nor
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am I going to put on Charlesthe cantalette asking them to subscribe to my
www platform. Patren as it isin the Caribbean and another tulips. Nothing,
that sheath. We leave that forlater, for when there' s
time and they' re not sleepy. But what I do want to take
advantage of is to thank my dearLina María Uribe, who has begun to
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support me through the platform. Thankyou, Lina, this is from the
Caribbean and other tulips and I'm Carlos Flores Urbina. Thank you so
much for listening and bye.
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