The extraction and export of gas, beyond the technical issues, it is useful to try to go a little further. The extraction driving this and other resources, they note that there are reserves for many years, in a nutshell that the gas is not going to stop. This statement presents the real magnitude which only takes a thought to this as the subject of the shares of the company. The gas (and all non-renewable natural resources) definitely going to end, to claim otherwise is nonsense. And it will end in a short time, almost in a blink of human evolution. Just
nonrenewable natural resources are defined and limited by its existence. If it is said that Peru should operate now and now only non-renewable resources, which in the end it does is refusing to supply to the generations after ours, but more serious is that the extractive, not beyond the immediate sentence humans to a reduced time horizon. That is, the indiscriminate extraction of natural resources is limited evidence of a way of seeing the world, consumer and off the past and the future.
was enough as some do not recognize the importance of harmonious development that seeks the general welfare rather than economic considerations based on manipulated statistics, now that same power would have us live in an eternal endless present. That's the only way to understand a logic that tells us tomorrow afternoon and evening, there is no option other than energy production at the expense of the Earth. Eternal Present
Time is a convention on. Western culture has constructed a time when the past is behind and the future ahead, being present only relevant, so you have to give all that is needed. It is therefore interesting to note other notions of time as that of some Andean villages where the past is ahead and the future behind; it because the past we can see, recognize from our eyes, knowing what has happened before while the future is behind us because we do not know what's coming, we can not see, just see when it becomes past.
This concept of time is similar to that Galileo was driving. When once, in his old age, asked how old he was, Galileo thought and said about seven. People were surprised, but Galileo explained that he had the years left of life, others, those who passed, he no longer belonged to, as were a mark on the water or air. And we could explore other conceptions of time to demonstrate the limitations of today as we deal with truth.
In this context, the rush by the exploitation of nonrenewable resources is rude, does not take into account either environmental sustainability or natural balance, but seeks to prevail for the sake of generating more wealth, wealth that we finally know where to stop, repeating sections of our history. On the other hand, it is obvious that if a human being (and the Earth is a living) will draw constantly, without pause, fluids or gases that holds within it, at some point such a response will have to be alive give: the case of any agency regardless of size. Consumerist logic assumes that the planet is an inert object, which sometimes results in laughter and others want to mourn.
So the recurring debate on mining, export, use or non-renewable natural resources is a symptom of the times, the supposed triumph of a way of conceiving the world in which the story ends, as one social scientist early nineties, so we must hurry, as if capitalism was the answer to the continuity of the species.
Five minutes without gas
Carl Sagan, that visionary who gave us the Cosmos, one of the chapters in this series, building a schedule: the first of January is the day when the universe began with the big bang . And so moving for months: in February galaxies are shaped, July the Milky Way is defined in the solar system was born in September, in November take their planets orbit. In December, the Earth is turning as it is. In mid-December in that great cosmic calendar, does matter become life-for the twenty-fifth day the waters are populated by creatures, the twenty dinosaurs disappear. We got to December 31, at eleven fifty-five of the night: the man and his ten thousand years on the planet occupy only those five minutes of the last day of the cosmic calendar. While some believe that one minute is not worth that much gas. Alexander Sack
June 24 2010
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