every year, there’s a little bit less of furadouro’s beach left after winter – despite the town hall’s best efforts to make up for it in summer. the tripa though, it’s still popular and going strong!
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it’s world toilet day
“Safe water and sanitation are now recognised as human rights but over one billion people do not have access to water and over two and a half billion people are without sanitation. A child dies every 15 seconds from water-related diseases as a result.
World toilet day helps WaterAid mark the fact that 2.6 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.”
you can help calling awareness to the situation by, for instance, knitting a river or getting involved, if you can. more on wateraid, here.
neighbourhoods of the future: ignoring global warming won’t make it go away.
like someone said, “this is the time to shout about the problem and make SURE something is finally done”. so what can we do?
have a look at george monbiot suggestions on this article over the report of Nicholas Stern.
it will be so much much cheaper to start acting now than to pretend the problem is in such a far away future that i will never affect our lifetime. that’s so wrong. in 2004, the atlantic ocean current actually stopped for 10 days (remember what happens in the day after tomorrow?).
the problem is here, and it’s here to stay.
ironically, yesterday i was a bit enraged with all the debate around the abortion issue going on again in portugal (where it still isn’t legal except for medical reasons and the sorts) when today i realized this is a problem which should overcome all the other discussions – as monbiot puts it, “The principal costs of climate change will be measured in lives, not pounds. As Stern reminded us yesterday, there would be a moral imperative to seek to prevent mass death even if the economic case did not stack up.”
let’s do something, shall we?