Sisters and brothers, today our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning
of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand
years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the
retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase
of the sea level and the flooding of coastal areas, where approximately
60% of the world population live; the increase in the processes of
desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher
frequency in natural disasters that the communities of the earth
suffer[1]; the extinction of animal and vegetal species; and the spread
of diseases in areas that before were free from those diseases.

One of the most tragic consequences of the climate change is that some
nations and territories are the condemned to disappear by the increase
of the sea level.

Everything began with the industrial revolution in 1750, which gave
birth to the capitalist system. In two and a half centuries, the so
called “developed” countries have consumed a large part of the fossil
fuels created over five million centuries.

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