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The more
involved human beings are in the quest for answers to such deep and
complex endeavors related to reason, the more significant the
efforts will be to release them from their enormous ignorance on the
true possibilities of what our intelligent species has created and
can still create. Living and ignoring it is tantamount to a complete
denial of our human They
certainly felt that science and technology plus a basic sense of
responsibility would suffice to tackle the problem. That important
summit happily concluded with a great photo-op of distinguished
characters, including the most powerful and influential. There was
no danger whatsoever. Hardly anyone
talked about climate change then. George Bush senior and other
dazzling leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance enjoyed victory over
the European socialist camp. The Soviet Union was dismembered and in
ruins. A huge amount of Russian money ended up in the Western banks,
its economy broke up and their defensive shield vis-à-vis NATO
military base
Such was the
beginning of the Cold War and the production of thousands of
increasingly destructive and accurate thermonuclear weapons capable
of annihilating the population of the planet several times over.
Nevertheless, the nuclear confrontation continued while the weapons
grew more accurate and destructive. Russia does not resign itself to
the unipolar world that For the first
time, in a globalized world full of contradictions the human species
has created the capacity for self destruction. This in addition to
unprecedented cruel arms such as chemical and bacteriological
weapons: like napalm and white phosphorous used with total impunity
against the civilian populations, the electromagnetic weapons and
other forms of extermination. No place on earth or in the sea, no
matter how deep, is beyond reach of the current means of war. It is known
that tens of thousands of nuclear devices have been produced, even
portable ones. The greatest
risk stems from the judgment of leaders with such decision-making
power that mistakes or madness, so common in human nature, could
lead to unspeakable catastrophes. Almost 65
years have passed since the explosion of the first two nuclear
artifacts due to the decision of a mediocre individual who was left
in command of the rich and mighty American power after Roosevelt’s
death. Today, eight countries are in possession of such weapons –most
of them obtained with US support—while several others have the
technology and the resources to On the other
hand, terrorist groups alienated by bigotry could also resort to
them, the same way that terrorist and irresponsible governments
would not hesitate to use them given their unrestrained and
genocidal behavior. The military
industry is the most prosperous of all and the United States of
America the largest exporter of weapons. If our
species can escape the abovementioned risks, there is still a
greater one or at least less unavoidable: climate change. The
population of the world today is seven billion, and soon, within 40
years, it will be nine billion. This figure is nine times what it
was barely 200 years ago. I dare assume that in the days of ancient
Greece the figure was about 40 times lower all over the planet. What’s amazing in our times is the contradiction between the imperialist bourgeois ideology and the survival of the species. The need for justice among human beings is no longer the issue; this is not only possible but unwavering.
The issue now is the right and the possibility of survival of the
human species. Three events
occurred in only 71 days that humanity cannot overlook. All hopes had
converged on the Copenhagen Summit after years of preparation
following the Kyoto Protocol that the government of the United
States, the most contaminating country in the world, had lightly
decided to ignore. The rest of the world community, 192 countries,
--this time even the United States included-- had committed to
promote a new agreement. The American attempt at imposing its
hegemonic interest was so shameful that in violation of the most
basic democratic principles it tried to force unacceptable
conditions on the rest of the world anti-democratically resorting to
bilateral arrangements with a group of the most influential United
Nations member countries. The States
that make up the international organization were invited to sign a
document that is no more than a travesty, a document that relates
purely theoretical future contributions to curb climate change. Barely three
weeks had passed when at sunset on January 12, Haiti, the poorest
nation in the hemisphere and the first to put an end to the horrible
slavery system, was hit by the greatest natural catastrophe in the
history of this part of the world: a 7.3 degrees in the Richter
scale earthquake only 6.25 miles deep and very close to its
coastline struck the capital of the country where most of the dead
or missing people lived in fragile houses built If there is a place on Earth where a natural catastrophe has become an enormous tragedy that place is Haiti, a symbol of poverty and underdevelopment, where the descendants of Africans live who were brought by the colonialists to work as slaves for white masters. The country was already occupied by the MINUSTAH forces sent by the United Nations to restore the order subverted by Haitian mercenary forces that instigated by the Bush administration had undertaken actions against the government elected by the Haitian people.
The official
reports estimate that, aside from the dead, about 400 thousand
Haitian were wounded and several million, almost half the total
population were affected. It was a real test for the world community
that after the shameful Danish Summit had the duty to show that the
rich and developed countries could be capable of tackling the
threats of climate change to You can
believe it or not, challenging the data –in my view irrefutable—of
the most serious scientists of the world and the overwhelming
majority of the most knowledgeable and honest people worldwide, who
think that at the current pace the planet is warming up, the
greenhouse gases will rise temperature not only by 1.5 degrees, but
up to 5 degrees, and that the medium temperature is already the
highest of the past 600 thousand years, long before the existence of
human beings as a species on the planet. There is one
thing we can be sure of based on everything known until today: the
closest star is four light-years away from our Sun, at a speed of
187,500 miles per second; maybe, a spaceship could cover that
distance in thousands of years. The human beings have no other
choice but to live on this planet. But, while in
Haiti they waited for hours the occurrence of a tidal wave that
never happened, the earthquake in Chile was followed by a huge
tsunami, which showed up in its coasts almost thirty minutes or an
hour later, depending on the distance and the data that are still
not accurately known, one whose waves made it as far as Japan. If it
had not been for Our Homeland
fully sympathizes with and morally supports the material effort that
it is the international community’s duty to make in favor of Chile.
The Cuban people would not hesitate to do for the fraternal Chilean
people anything within the extent of its capabilities from the
humane point of view. I think it is
the duty of the international community to objectively report the
tragedy sustained by both peoples. It would be cruel, unfair and
irresponsible to fail to educate the peoples of the world about the
threatening dangers. Let truth
prevail above selfishness and the lies used by imperialism to
deceive and confound the peoples! |
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