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The doctor is the doctor, damn it!

Hey monkey! For me, the Tropicalia movement was also somewhat disappointing. It feels like they were anxious to "include" so much stuff that, in the end, the result is a bit bland and also forced. In short, I would lean towards giving it a two, but it’s still a historic album, enormously important in the history of Brazilian music. By the way, if I’m not mistaken, for this propensity for experimentation, Gilberto Gil and his companions were viewed unfavorably by the dictatorship.

If supersoul says it's a good and right thing, I'll give it a listen. To be honest, I know it from "Because the Night" and various other bits. And I must sadly admit that I've even played "Because..." at the incessant request of a pain-in-the-ass singer.

"They are certificates of product quality," I wrote it to simplify, as I can't know what your job is; I believe this is our first chat on DeBaser. Anyway, be careful, the ISO 9000 series was not born from environmental assessments, you know. It was primarily a way to determine a quality management system, or rather, its requirements (9001). The 14000 is a complement to the 9000, and honestly, it doesn’t seem to me that these tools have been properly incentivized and publicized; on the contrary, my teachers say the opposite. On the other hand, I admit I have never practically applied any of this. We could also discuss the information channels used, but I repeat, this is not the right place to talk about these things. You are absolutely right that a lot of money is spent on environmental labels and that often the return is not encouraging; this is likely a decisive limiting factor for SMEs, and anyway, this is a criticism that experts acknowledge. But it’s not the only usable tool; there are regulatory instruments, for example, and those work; they have already been tested. In some way, you will agree with me that companies must pay for part of the negative externalities; it’s a matter of civilization, of rights, of human rights (why not?), things are not resolved simply by saying that everything is too complex. I am not a fan of Zeitgeist. I work hard on books out of passion because I am committed and believe that this field will allow me to DO in the future. I don’t think it’s a matter of simple-minded populism.
If you are interested in knowing more about biodiversity, I recommend, as I do to everyone, to read some articles from "SCIENCE," beware of various blogs and forums. Always try to read articles written by scientists and not by science journalists; the latter do more harm than good. The discussion is so complex that I realize I am saying everything and nothing, but you know how difficult it is to make such topics accessible and understandable. On the other hand, on these things, people study hard for years. Best regards.

The speech is long and risks being boring as well. Within environmental economics, or within a "demand nature oriented" economy, there are multiple tools for sustainable development. At the core, however, there is the need to educate consumers to choose products obtained through processes with a lower environmental impact. For example, in Scandinavian countries, they have implemented what is already foreseen by the European Union's Action Plans. Products are labeled with true quality certificates issued by national and international bodies. In Germany, there is the Blauer Engel since 1978; in Spain, there is the AENOR Medio Ambiente mark; and since 1992, the European Union has established the ECOLABEL standard, which we have also adopted. These are multi-criteria control systems for products that evaluate the entire production cycle. Naturally, people must know that these things exist to make informed choices, and someone has to explain them somehow.
Then, we need to encourage companies to produce better. Have you ever heard of the ISO-9000 standard? This standard emerged in the 1980s when products from Japan, Korea, and Singapore hit the European markets and were making us look bad; General Motors was on the brink of failure. So American and European industries (especially those in the technology sector) had to invent a way to persuade people and all intermediaries in the distribution chain to choose western products, and the ISO standards were born. They are product quality certificates that guarantee quality to the buyer; however, they do not say anything about how the product was made, the resources used, or its environmental impact. They imposed ISO-9000 on us, and they can impose other quality certifications if they want; ISO-14000 has already existed for 10 years. The only thing is that we need to communicate this to people.
Then we could dive into a whole discussion about GDP and the almost total disconnect from reality of most economic indices used. Consider that environmental disasters (Hurricane Katrina, for example) positively impact GDP. GDP does not account for organized crime, smuggling, exploitation of prostitution, and illegal labor (all things that you would agree with me are not pleasant), yet these factors certainly influence the economy of a community. If we keep thinking like this, we're going nowhere and are destined for a bad end. There are many more reliable economic indices than GDP that are already being used in some regions of the world (think that the Chinese dictatorship has imposed the use of GREEN GDP to study living conditions in the more peripheral areas of the system). It's a long discussion, and this is a review forum that is not suited for exchanging these concepts. Moreover, if people think we're just passing through, things become impossible. I'll "spare" you the talk about resources; I'd only annoy you further :) Bye.

Valerio Rivoli, Massimo Moratti owns half of Sardinia.

Valerio Rivoli, Massimo Moratti owns half of Sardinia.

I had written a much longer and detailed post, but for some reason it didn’t all get inserted. I don’t feel like rewriting it, so I’ll make a summary. Basically, the capitalist system is by no means the best, absolutely not. Car manufacturers know this very well; they've ventured into entirely different businesses to avoid failing and being absorbed by other multinationals. DAEWOO is now into corn! TAMOIL has jumped into biodiesel. To do this, they must use vast spaces otherwise intended for agriculture, or eliminate other areas like rainforests, tundras, wetlands, and natural reservoirs of biological diversity. And this only increases the importance of the REAL environmental problem, the one that the media deliberately tries to hide, and it is not global warming or the greenhouse effect. It’s Biodiversity! That’s the crucial point. It is on this point where capitalism fails, as all scientists, biologists, and ecologists agree. From this problem stem all the others, including social and political issues. It’s hard to explain on a music review forum, but those who study natural sciences know it very well.

Puntinicaz. This crisis is different from the others for a simple reason. Now we know that the world is finite. Finished in the sense of defined, the resources at our disposal are quantifiable. To understand this (which is the basis of sustainable development), think of the crisis of '29. Now, all economists compare the current state of the economy to that of the pre-Keynesian period. But they forget to mention that in '29 we were unaware of concepts that now seem almost trivial. For example, in '29, biogeochemical cycles were not known, meaning there was no certainty about the origins of oil and other hydrocarbons. It was a world expanding, with a huge variety of solutions and choices available. Now it's different; the world is finite, we have consumed in just 60 years what could have been consumed. Oil will run out around 2020 (see Hubbert's Peak), and other basic resources for development (Germanium, Zinc, URANIUM!, PLUTONIUM! (far from nuclear power plants)) will deplete even sooner. And some processes are incontrovertible. For example, zinc reserves are about to run out and there is no production cycle that allows for the recovery of zinc from paints. Thermodynamics states this, as do the models derived from it (Georgescu-Roegen Model).

Good job, miramar, I can feel it.