Thursday 28 September 2017

Climate Change

I think Climate Change is one of the biggest crisis mankind has faced through its history, together with the Ice Age and the Black Death. It's a problem that affects us all and we're all somehow responsible for this issue. It infuriates me to listen to people such as Donald Trump and Mike Pence (US vice president) saying that it's not real or that it's only another Earth cycle. It is not. For the planet, it took around 250 million years to warm up the planet in 2.5ºC. It took mankind 150 years to do the same. Natural? No way. 


However, I also believe that Climate Change is sometimes too demonized and it looks like our doom. There's a huge amount of people around the planet working to solve this crisis. Tesla Company creating new technologies that don't use oil as main source of energy, and thus creating cleaner, smarter and more reliable cars. Sweden and Germany are doing tremendous advances in the waste management and electric energy areas. In Chile, for the first time in mankind history, solar energy is cheaper than coal because of our huge radiaton index in the Atacama Desert, so there's an unique opportunity waiting for us. The hurricane that struck USA a few weeks ago is a reminder of the severity of Climate Change and everyone understood it as such. And so on. 

We're not oblivious to it. Now should be the time to do something about it.

Saturday 9 September 2017

Movies I like

I'm not a big fan of movies. Not because I don't like them, but because I don't find myself with the time to watch movies "just because".

However, there are some genres and franchises that have caught my attention. First, I have a big respect for children movies, as I think the good ones present interesting and serious topics as they also show colours and funny things in order to get kids' attention. Wall-E for instance, a love story of two robots on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The story is told through music and gibberish noises, instead of unnecesary dialogues and meaningless movie clichés.

Rugrats: The Movie is also an all-time favourite. It's based on the popular TV-series, and the plot surrounds the adventures of the babies when Tommy's younger brother was born and they all get lost in the woods. Besides all the fun, it also gets very deep sometimes with Tommy learning the value of responsibility and what it means to have a brother.

It was fun to watch kids' movies when I was a kid. But seeing them again as an adult allows me to notice a lot of things that I didn't back in the day.