Showing posts with label natural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 September 2016

THE REASON WHY WE SHOULD PUT A PRIZE ON A FOREST

Nature is our most valuable resource, but it shouldn't be for free.We all need water to live, but we don't need oil to sustain ourselves.Think about this, oil companies dig and destroy zones of forest for big oil reserves...That will feed our population for eight days and eight days only.
New conservation efforts put a prize on every tree and creature on the rain forest by the carbon absorbed by the individual or other ecological favours and jobs of other species to create a natural capital.This means that the forest is officially not for free.

Wednesday, 10 August 2016

WEIRD DELICACIES FROM THE NATURAL WORLD

You are what you eat, some foods are eaten like chips in some places and in others the same foods are disgusting just seeing them.Insects for instance are very productive and contain fibres and proteins and also other nutrients that makes more than half of the world´s malnutrition in humans around the world.
Other foods like rabbit in countries like Spain are considered as gross in the United States as dogs being eaten in China for us or some European countries eating cows for Indians.
In some countries like Bhutan there is a billion-dollar industry on a caterpillar that has been infected with a fungus.Some towns eat it with a very strong alcoholic drink.

No matter where do you live, what do you like and dislike, the culinary status of each country isn´t weirder or more usual,Should we let what we cook separate us or should we understand that...
Nature gave us the menu, we are the ones that choose witch one to pay for.

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

URBAN EVOLUTION

Life´s empire rules all the heavens.
Life can make  a living anywhere, we usually expect life to live in very rich places (talking about nutrients,food,water and energy), but life itself has told us that it started in inhospitable places like volcanic vents or isolated lagoons exposed to radiation from the sun.
Today some creatures like the tard
igrades  can live in the edge of erupting volcanoes  or the deepest of oceans,They can even survive the deadly conditions in space!
Our cities may seem inhospitable, but they´re as ruff as any other environment,natural selection helps creatures adapt to the environment as they need too. Our cities have changed during 5,000 years, but simple changes in behaviour can happen in thousands of years.dogs have evolved for 10,000 years and diversified in many shapes and characteristics.The city pigeon evolved as we invented agriculture and created towns, cities and civilisations.

Cities, as any other environment isn´t a paradise for wildlife, but it isn´t a dead zone either.
The problem with cities is that when an organism looses its habitat it can evolve or go extinct, and with just months its hard even for creatures like bugs to adapt well to cities, and go extinct.
If we learn how to make this metal laboratory share its space with the other habitats, maybe there is a chance that we could make a better future for all of us.