GuíaBurros: Approaching the debate on: climate change, ecological crisis and sustainability

Por Rosmel Rodríguez y Miguel Luis Lapeña

This is a book that has a main goal to disclose information in an easy way about the ecologic crisis and climate change, phenomenon that are the great threat of the XXIst century. They both affect the whole planet and could change life as we know it, risking future and present generations. This essay encourages to think about the vulnerability of a world that is still getting over a pandemic, and a world that is facing big international geopolitical challenges. It is also an informative book that intends to raise awareness to the reader, pointing out the importance of protecting and preserving the environment, so we can assure the natural balance of our common home, planet Earth.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Editatum
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 abr 2023
• ISBN: 9788419731128

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Introduction

The book you are now holding has as a main goal raising awareness and disclosing information, in the easiest way possible, on the ecological crisis that breaks out as the great threat of the XXI century, affecting the whole planet and all the living things within. This monster can change life as we know it, putting in great risk both present and future generations.

This is a book that invites you all to reflect on the vulnerability of a world that is still suffering the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, a world that is facing a global geopolitical challenge due to the war conflicts that are taking place at this very moment. It also intends to make you reinforce your talent.

This book is also an information source whose aim is to enrich and form an idea of the current situation this planet is living.

You’re holding a work that promotes climate the action principle, and has a goal the democratisation of the access to this information in this one book, easy to understand, that presents the importance of protecting and preserving the environment, so we can ensure the natural harmony of the Earth, our home.

The authors values are very similar in terms of climate action, sustainability and social commitment against ecological crisis. It’s been born from all the debates had about said issues, where they merge their academic studies, activism and work to reach the dissemination of all those experiences by means of these pages, that intend to give an approach, in an easy and amusing way to the environmental difficulties. It also serves as background information so the reader can penetrate in these matters and promote climate action.

Rosmel Rodríguez and Miguel Luis Lapeña have been publishing together, over these last years, several op-ed articles in Think Nets, blogs and via social networks. They have also been part of several seminars and conferences in Spain and abroad, always from their expertise field of sustainability and 2030 Agenda values. Within these lines, you will travel through the main environmental problems and challenges leading to the basic concepts and strategies that try to give both explanations and solutions to this global problem.

The authors show the importance of the youth, the NGOs and all the communities organised in the climate action as, through their training and awareness, they’re the real leaders against these huge life-threatening difficulties we’re facing.

The world’s current climate situation is very complex, and that’s why this writing is born, to highlight the problem of global warming and, specially, because now it’s the time to work all together and responsibly to reach world agreements concerning climate change, as most of them have paid only lip service.

From this starting point, the authors took the next step, enthusiastically writing this book, which focuses on acting, contributing and explaining several issues within ecological crisis, 2030 Agenda and sustainability, and trying to help and comprehend both the environmental situation and its consequences. Environmental awareness and the joint action of everyone involved in the fight against climate change will be the best bet.

This outreach work intends to highlight the importance of discussing these issues in civil society, both in public and private sectors. Working for this generation and try to make this world ameliorate the one and only goal. This should be the main concern for the different countries, institutions, international and national organisations with fierce commitment.

This work has been carried out with enthusiasm and in coordination, putting in value several sustainable development goals to reach its target: raise awareness and encouraging public-private collaboration.

To finish up this introduction, the authors invite you to read this book, sharing it and divulge its information, deepening its debates to, once and for all, preserve this planet and all living creatures.

Now it’s time to read, reflect and work all together in our mutual home, the Earth. This is our message for you: we need to take action and commit ourselves to society and the environment.

The authors

Approach to climate change

Most of us have seen, read or heard about the uncommon climate phenomenon all over the planet. Weather is warmer than usual, the different seasons are more and more inconsistent, loss of harvests is a threat to entire towns and villages, outbreaks of diseases that were already eradicated, mass extinction and endangerment of animal and plant species and all the consequences of continuous heat waves.

With all this going on us, the authors, can powerfully claim that we are living the worst consequences of the change of the planet’s natural processes. This discouraging situation raise a number of questions: What is going on? What is that climate change thing? How did this happen? What is its cause? What is the actual situation of the planet? This chapter will outline all these questions about the very complex phenomenon considered to be the greatest threat of the XXI century. That is why we invite you, the reader, to give it a good thought.

Climate is usually something hard to explain, as we usually think of it as short-term variations in the weather, and we tend to only remember extreme climate events such as heat waves, cold snaps, storms, drought or torrential rainfall. But climate is, in its simplest definition, a measurement determined by the average atmospheric weather values analysed throughout the years. We can observe certain normal changes in the patters of the different climate variable, as they are not always strictly static. We should underline that this planet’s climate has changed a lot throughout history, although this changes, usually caused by the planet’s natural processes and rarely by external agents, occur gradually over thousands of years. A good example is the famous story of the meteorite that impacted the Earth’s surface, and the gasses and dust in the biosphere that drastically changed the environmental harmony of the time and provoked the extinction of countless living things, among which were dinosaurs.

Climate change can be understood as a variation of these average conditions, only in an accelerated manner, way far from the natural development of the planet and caused by external elements. That is to say, this phenomenon is mainly caused by the impact of the human being in the planet; it has an anthropogenic origin.

Today, climate change is the main topic in most of the countries’ agenda, as it is a global problem, a problem that knows no borders and without solution in isolated areas. This is a problem shared by all countries. That is why the climate crisis has to be approached as a global problem that requires both national and international cooperation to develop plans and strategies to curb the effects of climate change.

But this is not a recent concern, we have been seeing this coming for the last fifty years. In this book we’ll take the definition of climate change given in the United Nations Framework Convention on