Climate change and landscape
Time has been on our line for a long time, but the climate is relatively recent. There is no need to clarify too much what climate change is. Explaining what the landscape is is a redder necessity. Conferences, round tables or international conferences on climate change are currently under way. I have referred to “climate change and landscape” in a couple of round tables, and the most difficult thing is to explain that it is us the landscapes.
I hope that what Fernando Pessoa said was true: “We don’t see what we see, we see what we are.” If we really see ourselves in the landscape, then we would realize that all we do every day and throughout the day is our landscape. That everything influences our environment, our environment, our quality of life.
Our landscape has been created by ourselves. The whole landscape is cultural, we've adapted it to get everything we've needed to live in our history. And every culture shapes it in its own way: meadows, wooded forests, pools, garomas, apples, fields ... So instead of a natural park, we should call Cultural Park those landscapes that have been created, conserved and conditioned by our ancestors. That's why landscape is the main exponent of climate change. Our heads are gone and, as Daniel Innerarity says: “We are consuming the future and becoming a landfill of what we have today.” And our behavior is being integrated into the landscape, constantly sculpting. We are.
Climate change does not mean that Earth warms up to four degrees by the end of the century, or that extreme weather storms occur, or that wine and chocolate and coffee and fish are almost within anyone's reach, no. Climate change is what you and I are doing. Our daughters and sons, who will live reddened within a few years, and rightly so, because they're creating a landscape to curse us. Fabrizio Caramaña said: “Some places are an enigma, others an explanation.”
But what's in our hands is that. Let this curse of the future not happen. Have your lambs and your butts say whatever they want, and have me take care of our own. Henri-Frédéric Amiel said: “Any landscape is a state of spirit.” For us, climate is change. For them, in Basque, climate change. In our landscape, in Basque Country! Colonized landscape of the Basque Country. Patrick Modiano said: “The person without landscape is left without protection.”
The day exceeds the night with the spring equinox. This year it happened on 20 March, at 22:59 hours, opening the door of the spring. The Eki prefix means the same thing. Until then the night had been longer. The day and night were twelve hours. Since then, the day is extended... [+]
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Spring has brought the issue to my nose. C. worked at various research centers in New York. Bushdid, M. Oh! Magnasco, L.B. Vosshall and A. An article published by scientists Keller in March 2014 in the prestigious “Science Magazine” produced a great stir. The title says it... [+]
The curious interannual days end, those who eat and drink from the emanations of the earth. I'll eat from the best to the best. Supposedly. Heavy champagne and cava bottles are easy to dance. Even though they are of all kinds today, they were once the cider of the other barrel... [+]
Egin du izotzak berea: azioa, txarkeria. Aspaldian ikusi gabeko izotz zuri galantak izan ditugu apirilaren bukaeran. Sator-lana baina agerian, inongo lotsarik gabe: azerikeria. Ikaragarria bota du Euskal Herriaren hegoaldean.
Mila gau eta bat gehiago ipuin sortaren antzera, azken 22 urteetako mila artikulu eta bat gehiago hauen kontakizuna aitaren batean igaro zait. Txoko honetan Gerezi sasoi aparta izenburua zuen lehen artikulu xinple hura idatzi zuen umemoko hari, Persiako ipuin sorta horretako Nur... [+]
Maiatz ederrari ekin diogu. Konturatzerako bero sapa azaleratzen diguten urteko egun luzeenetan gara. Urteko gau motzenak izango dira orduan, baina ikuskizun paregabea eskaintzen dutenak. Ez naiz ari jai txolinenei adarrak ipintzen dizkieten su-festa zalapartatsuez. Isilagoak... [+]
Uhaga edo ponpa izugarriak dira landareak. Zuhaitz handiak, zer esanik ez. Metro eta erdiko gerribuelta duen pago (Fagus sylvatica) batek egunero 400 litro ur behar ditu metabolismoari eusteko. 400 litro ur aurkitu behar ditu non edo han; sustraije ikaragarria garatzen du ur... [+]
Estimatzeko intentzio osoarekin sagardo botila bat ireki, edalontzia sudurrera hurreratu eta botila itxita izan duen tortotxaren usaina hartzea, horixe infernua!
Sekulakoa iruditzen zait aurtengo negua jo eta eskaintzen ari zaigun kolore sinfonia. Eguraldi xelebreagatik ote? Epel gozotik izotzera; lehorte punttutik uholdeetara. Ala neroni nabil halatsu, eta aurten begi berriak ditut...
Kosmopolita da getozka, Portulaca oleracea. Munduan barrena hara eta hona hedatu dugu, jakinaren gainean edo azpian, eta toki askotan ondo bizi da. Noranahitarra da, eta edonon nonahikoa. Dakigun guztia bezala, ez dakigu oso ondo nongoa den. Landareez ari garenean, ikaragarrizko... [+]
Orbel kontuak ekarri ditudala paperera eta, irakurle batek hosto ihar horiek landarezaleontzat zein onuragarriak diren aipatu zidan; krixtaua zen, eta “bedeinkazio” bat zirela zioen.