Lessons from the Cold War and Global Warming!

The cold war was a war that never came (THANKS FOR THAT!!) but which lessons can it teach us regarding Global Warming?

Global warming use to be a debate now is a certainty with more than 97% of scientists supporting it! The only question remaining is: Can WE change the out came or it is too late? Well, I most certainly don´t have the answers and I think no one does! Here the phrase “Time will tell!” is the only answer!

But can The Cold War teach us anything about Global Warming? I think it can! Global Warming as the name says is GLOBAL! Just like cold war! Because a nuclear war in Europe, USA, USSR, China and its zones of influence would destroy the conditions for humans to live on planet and not just in those countries directly bombed!

The strange and unexpected aspect of Global Warming is that for the first time, the POWER is in the hands of the poor! Developed countries used their natural resources and of other countries to become DEVELOPED! This is OK! This was done under the “Game’s rules”!

Now, less developed countries, like my Brazil are doing the same! But now developed countries wants to change the “Game’s rules!”. Developed countries are saying: Sorry you cannot use your natural resources (like we did) to develop because this will cause Global Warming! Sorry to say, we are going to do it! We are going to do it not because we want Global Warming but because we want development!

So what is the answer? What are the solutions?

Like in the Cold War, developed countries will have to do it first! HOW?

First we have to come to an agreement on what level of use by humans can this planet support! This in itself is very hard to do! After it, we can finally agree that the population has to go down (I believe, I don´t know because I cannot find data to support it). How we gone do it, I have no clue! I hope we still have time to do it through education! Once we done these maths, we can move to the real issue, the Natural Environment! Here my proposal is quite simple, same burden/cost to all countries! What will deter it is population! For every single citizen, all countries will have the same X m² of Natural Environment to explore economically! These will be determined by math, so these calculus will show that developed countries will have to reduce their present areas of economic use of their Natural Environment. For less developed countries, there will have more areas to develop! Here there will be NO Carbon Credit bull shit! Developed countries will have to move factories, agricultural farming and everything else of economic development to less developed countries. These actions will make the areas that were used for economic use today in developed countries, back to Natural use leveling the burden! WHY? Let’s take the grains production in the USA, very efficient but its Natural conditions allow production is just a few months of the year! Move an American farmer to a tropical country with same economic conditions and his production will go up simply because he now can produce 12 months of the year!

What I am proposing is NOT a GLOBAL communist scheme! Sure American farmers will not move from Ohio to Nigeria! But an equal burden means that a lot of economic development present placed on developed countries will have to move! Just like it did towards CHINA, but it will be done not for economic reasons but by environment ones! So even if a country offer a better economic solution, if this country has reach his environment quota, sorry it has to go somewhere else! This is the only fair and equal burden solution I can see! If we do not share the cost equally we will never get an equal solution! Global Warming as its name says is GLOBAL! So country base talks or solution will not cut! We are running out of time fast!

BUT rest assures that less developed countries will develop! The only question remaining is: Will the planet support this development given the present conditions?

Brazil

Why I LOVE so much my country!

Brazil is a vast country, it has 8.515.767 Km² which makes it the fourth largest continuous country in the world! The most stacking characteristic of Brazil is the fact that it starts around 32 degrees south and goes up north to about 5 degrees north of the Equator. Why this so important? Climate! If you look at the World Map you will see that Brazil is the largest country to reactive sun light! Our geographical position allows us to cultivate virtually any plant, livestock or microorganisms that we decide to. This is a great thing, but it is not the reason, this is the cause!

Brazilian colonization started by Portuguese in 1500 A.D. and very soon the slavery trade came to be. So Brazilians, in its birth, were a mix of Indian (true Brazilians), Portuguese (European) and Africans. In the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, Brazil received large number of Asian immigrants (especially from Japan) complementing the mix! So we are a people blessed with blood from almost everywhere! I know that most countries these days have also mix people, but we had the Portuguese inheritance that gave us o more comprehensive and less radical approaches to differences. Surely we have racism in Brazil and I hope that we get rid of it! It will take time but hopefully humanity will also do it! What we have not are the radical position that lead to extreme violence, such as ethnic wars, mass murder in schools, shopping centers, etc. (even that some are starting to happen, due to copycat and a sense of injustice, most likely!). But Brazilians are FUN! We are the only people that even in the worse situations; we can dance, sing and smile! People from around the world that came to Brazil during the Football World Cup never felt more happy and enjoyed it fully!

But Brazil is vast and nature was also favorite. I had the luck to visit some of the best national parks in the USA in 1980. Parks like Sequoia, Bryce, Teton, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone are truly gems of Nature. I am sure all makes Americans proud and care about each! In Brazil we have our National Parks, places like Pantanal, Xingu, Serra da Canastra, Sete Cidades, Fernando de Noronha, etc. are just as nature gems as the American parks. Pantanal is our everglades, a wetland with 200.000 Km² where you can look down to thousands of birds’ nests! YES DOWN! 

Ninhal in Pantanal

Fernando de Noronha is our middle Atlantic island with unique sea views and life. Sete cidades is a 14.000 year man site and has posed some difficult explaining to the man migration through the Americas. We also have more than 8.500 km of cost line, most of it tropical! This makes Brazil the most tropical cost line anywhere! The beaches, or NATAURE WHY DID YOU MAKE THEM! It is impossible to describe so, see one below to get an idea!

Being so vast, Brazil has great differences in food! You can eat a barbeque in Rio Grande do Sul cooked in an open trench or find international food in São Paulo, a great Tutu mineiro dish in Minas Gerais, a acarajé in Bahia, a tapioca in any Brazilian northeast state, a duck with Tucupi in Belém do Pará or Pirarucu fish in Manaus, Amazonia. 

On the side of fruits, NATURE went ballistics! You can eat berries in the south, Jaboticabas in the middle, Cajá, Siriguela, Cajú in the northeast, Serrado fruits, like Pequi, Mangaba and Araticum, are just unique as the serrado itself. Açaí and Cupuaçu in the north! All will make you travel to tastes, smells and sensations never experienced before!

I could not write about Brazil without saying something about our flowers! But to try to write about it is waste of time! Better to see it!

So Brazil is a unique, rich and diverse experience! That’s why I LOVE IT SO MUCH!

I could try to write more, but I will only screech the surface! You have to come! Be sure that you will be loved and respected.

Next post, I don´t know on what it will be! I will wait to get inspiration!

All the best,