Hace unos días en una conversación entre amigos uno de ellos hizo la siguiente pregunta: “¿somos los seres humanos la especie más estúpida del universo?”. Después de un breve silencio entre los contertulios le respondí: “al menos entre las especies conocidas”, lo que causó la hilaridad de todos.
En verdad parece que somos absolutamente estúpidos e incapaces de enfrentarnos a los problemas que nos afectan como colectividad y como especie. Incapaces de mirar más allá de nuestras propias narices mientras somos instruidos en pensar solamente en que lo único importante es el factor capital o sea el dinero y el beneficio económico que nos puede dar.
Bajo estos principios seguimos obstinados en conseguir intereses geopolíticos, y estratégicos, conseguir más dividendos, obtener más capital, todo aquello que nos proporcione recursos y medios para seguir haciendo una y otra vez lo mismo, ya sea a través de la guerra, de la ideología o de la violencia.
El planeta se muere y no se trata de una diatriba ecologista ni una frase exagerada. De verdad, se muere. Hemos esquilmado Africa, estamos esquilmando la selva amazónica, los polos se derriten, hemos sobreexplotado la pesca y la agricultura, las políticas mundiales para reducir la huella de carbono y el CO2 se aplazan una y otra vez y la industria pesada que lo genera no para de crecer y para terminar de cerrar la ecuación, de nuevo la guerra.
El calentamiento de la tierra es una realidad indiscutible.
La serie Counting the Costs del fotógrafo Dillon Marsh (Cape Town, Sudáfrica) combina la fotografía con elementos generados por ordenador en un esfuerzo por presentar una nueva forma de visualizar la muerte del planeta y el desastre ecológico y medio ambiental al que le estamos sometiendo.
Dillon Marsh ha recopilado datos de informes científicos para calcular el ritmo de pérdida de masa de los principales glaciares de la India y el Nepal en donde se encuentran alguna de las mayores montañas de la Tierra y a continuación ha creado modelos de hielo a escala exacta y los ha colocado en entornos humanos típicos.
La Tierra está inmersa en una tendencia de calentamiento sin precedentes y no hay duda de que las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero son la causa principal. Estamos haciendo que el planeta se caliente más, y los efectos de esto pueden verse claramente en la rápida disminución de los glaciares en todo el mundo. El objetivo es llamar la atención sobre los dramáticos cambios climáticos que continúan sin cesar mientras nosotros llevamos a cabo nuestra vida cotidiana.- Dillon Marsh.
Foto portada: 7.06 cubic meters – the average volume of ice lost on Naradu glacier every minute de la serie Counting the Costs de Dillon Marsh © Copyright – Dillon Marsh
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A few days ago in a conversation among friends, one of them asked the following question: «Are we humans the stupidest species in the universe? After a brief silence among the conversation partners, I answered: «at least among the known species», which caused hilarity among all of them.
It really does seem that we are utterly stupid and incapable of dealing with the problems that affect us as a collective and as a species. We are incapable of looking beyond our own noses while we are taught to think only that the only important thing is the capital factor, that is, money and the economic benefit it can give us.
Under these principles we remain obstinate in pursuing geopolitical and strategic interests, obtaining more dividends, obtaining more capital, anything that provides us with resources and means to keep doing the same thing over and over again, whether it be through war, ideology or violence.
The planet is dying, and this is not an environmentalist diatribe or an exaggerated phrase. It really is dying. We have depleted Africa, we are depleting the Amazon rainforest, the poles are melting, we have overexploited fisheries and agriculture, global policies to reduce the carbon footprint and CO2 are put off again and again and again, and the heavy industry that generates it keeps growing, and to close the equation, war again.
Global warming is an indisputable reality.
The series “Counting the Costs” by photographer Dillon Marsh (Cape Town, South Africa) combines photography with computer-generated elements in an effort to present a new way of visualizing the death of the planet and the ecological and environmental disaster to which we are subjecting it.
Dillon Marsh has compiled data from scientific reports to calculate the rate of mass loss of major glaciers in India and Nepal where some of the largest mountains on Earth are located, then created accurate scale models of ice and placed them in typical human environments.
“The Earth is in the midst of an unprecedented warming trend and there is no doubt that greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause. We are making the planet warmer, and the effects of this can be clearly seen in the rapid decline of glaciers around the world. The aim is to draw attention to the dramatic climate changes that continue unabated as we go about our daily lives”.- Dillon Marsh.
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- 7.06 cubic meters of ice lost every minute Naradu glacier
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- 18.64 cubic meters of ice lost Chhota Shigri glacier every minute
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- 73.01 cubic meters of ice lost Yala glacier every half hour
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- 92.58 cubic meters of ice lost Neh Nar glacier every hour
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- 3.09 cubic meters of ice lost Changmekhangpu glacier every minute
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- 7.9 cubic meters of ice lost Pokalde glacier every hour
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- 62.15 cubic meters of ice lost Tipra Bank glacier every half hour
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- 4.78 cubis meters of ice lost Dokraini glacier every minute
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- 296.46 cubic meters of ice lost Rikha Samba glacier every hour
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- 2.55 cubic meters of ice lost Dunagiri glacier every minute
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- 130.62 cubic meters of ice lost Shaune Garang glacier every half hour
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- 308.97 cubic meters of ice lost Chorabari glacier every half hour
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- 26.26 cubic meters of ice lost Shorang Himal glacier every half hour
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- 0.24 cubic meters of ice lost Rulung glacier every minute
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- 10.47 cubic meters of ice lost Hamtah glacier every minute
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- 72.47 cubic meters of ice lost West Changri Nup glacier every half hour
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- 176.6 cubic meters of ice lost Gara glacier every hour
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- 13.45 cubic meters of ice lost Mera glacier every hour
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