"Fruto del aumento de la complejidad de las comunidades humanas, que van repitiendo crisis, colapsos y saltos adelante, nos aproximamos a una visión cíclica de la historia, a una historia con forma de espiral, una historia que vuelve una y otra vez sobre situaciones similares, pero en contextos distintos. Espacios y tiempos en que las condiciones ambientales, sociales, económicas, tecnológicas y políticas han cambiado, en muchos casos drásticamente. Espacios y tiempos que, no obstante, han mantenido dialécticas de poder, formas de opresión y de resistencia, reparto desigual de riquezas, acciones y reacciones ante su abundancia o su escasez, y un sinfín de relaciones causa-efecto entre los diversos elementos en juego."
Con subtítulos en varios idiomas "La vida moderna sería imposible sin el plástico, pero hace mucho que perdimos el control sobre nuestra invención. ¿Por qué el plástico se ha convertido en un problema? ¿Y qué sabemos acerca de sus peligros?
Este video es una colaboración con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Ambiente y su campaña Clean Seas (Mares limpios). Si desea tomar medidas para cambiar el futuro de los plásticos, vaya a http://www.cleanseas.org y haga su promesa.
También nos asociamos con askscience en reddit. ¡En https://bit.ly/2tVU68d puede hablar con expertos y hacer preguntas sobre la contaminación plástica hoy en día!"
"El plástico desechable está en todos lados, algunas veces visible y otras más escondido. Nuestra cultura de usar y tirar y el abuso de este material nos está llevando a un colapso medioambiental. Evitar el plástico puede parecer una misión imposible pero ¿qué pensarías si te decimos que es más fácil y tiene muchas más ventajas de lo que parece? En agosto de 2015 tomamos la decisión de empezar a vivir sin ningún tipo de plásticos desechables. Para no abandonar al primer problema, abrimos un blog titulado "Vivir sin plástico" haciendo público nuestro compromiso. Fue el principio de un camino que nos ha llevado no sólo a reducir el resto de residuos que generamos sino a plantearnos que nuestra forma de vivir y consumir puede ser la causa o la solución a muchos de nuestros problemas medioambientales."
"Farmer N'Da Alphonse grows cocoa and has never seen the finished product. "To be honest I do not know what they make of my beans, " says farmer N'Da Alphonse. "I've heard they're used as flavoring in cooking, but I've never seen it. I do not even know if it's true."
vpro Metropolis was a video project by Dutch broadcast organisation vpro, that ran from 2008 to 2015. Metropolis is made by a global collective of young filmmakers and TV producers, reporting on remarkable stories from their own country/city. We made a trip around the globe on one single issue: from local beauty ideals to Elvis impersonators, to what's it like being gay, or an outcast or a dog in different cultures."
"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but