Monday, April 6, 2009

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When will the oil? My living will

When will the oil? The question has no simple answer. Indeed : the question is as widespread as misplaced. The oil will not end, probably, is rannicchierà ever deeper, sliding under the land and oceans on ancient, obscure. Ends, however, the possibility of human technology to capture: the transaction costs, slowing down the mining market, and this is in fact already happening on a massive scale.

According to the 'Association "ASPO" peak oil, ie the maximum value of oil extraction at the lowest price, exceeded his china in 2005, and the -down is initiated, inexorable and totally unpredictable in its stages.

course is linked, without exception in this global scenario, the economic crisis. Several British and Canadian oil companies have already applied for state aid to their countries and our own ENI has withdrawn its projects in Alaska, launched last year. In Nigeria, the giant Shell is abandoning their fields because the local guerrilla resistance, fueled by anger at the havoc caused environmental and social over the years by international oil companies, is costing too much more than the meager results counted in barrels. The collapse of banking systems hinders even the investment in alternative energy, in a dizzying carousel. Meanwhile, in Italy, the electricity consumption increasing by 1.5 year and talk, very inappropriately, nuclear power, while the more enlightened governments like the U.S. or the Norwegian link independence from depletable sources, whose order is clearly horizon.


These themes were discussed, a few nights ago in Milan, during an evening of film clubs in Chiamamilano, dedicated to the electric car and sustainability Energy Efficiency: " Who Killed the Electric Car? . You can listen to the answers to questions from the audience, the two important guests: Toufic El Asmar , a professor at the University of Florence and member of "ASPO" and Roberto Rizzo, an expert in energy science journalist alternatives. Click below.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Who Do I Write To To Cancel La Fitness




I decided to make public my living will, which I wrote at the height of my mental and physical abilities. I do so following the decision of the Italian government to prohibit the suspension nutrition and hydration, written decree to prevent the father of Eleanor Englaro to let go of his daughter after seventeen years of vegetative state artificially supported. For some time, since when Giulio Mozzi launched the idea on vibrissae bulletin, I thought to publish it. Today it seems inevitable.

Sometimes I think about death. It happens occasionally, when the mind constructs reality next hypothesis: not a fixed idea, and perhaps twenty-five years is a good thing. I learned that it is wiser to look death in the face to try to understand it for what it is, a common human destiny. I think I feel more serene, despite the discomfort of thinking from the inevitable. The Buddhist doctrine says that the first truth of life is the existence of suffering is called the noble truth
, and rightly so. E 'noble because it leads to a clear awareness, that - that my experience - helps avoid the anxiety of the future: it is worthy to be known, taught to accept and allow to dissolve the suffering. Why make their own living wills seems to me an act of conscious civilization. Then make it public is a way to emphasize the legal limbo of unconsciousness in which our society is compelled today.
few months ago I learned that this year I will have to undergo spinal surgery. I am confident that the operation, while challenging, will be fine. I'll close who loves me. However, the possibility of an error on the part of medicine and there is always convenient to put them into account. So, typing these words, I also think it is inevitable that this experience that I will do next.
may happen that one day this year, as the next, as in ten, twenty, thirty, forty, I no longer have to find a way to express rationality, feelings, instincts, and even I think is called state vegetative state, and you will not, presumably, reversible. If you ever happen to ask people who are close to me and are in a position to decide whether or not to pursue this was not to be but make the best decision, made on behalf of their respect to my beliefs and their beliefs. I ask for courage and awareness. The aggressive treatment on someone who will never draw a any real relief because it kept alive (non-conscious) only by machines is not the choice I would do to someone I love: after the time required (which will tell the individual event and medicine, and the empirical evidence) for identifying the conditions stable, after the time required for the acceptance of a situation now final, I find it fair that you decide to go ahead with the natural cycle of life and death.
I'd like to die at home, not in the hospital. I would like my organs were donated to those in need and would like to be cremated. I wish there was peace in doing this, despite its weight, you should live the present, not the past. Thank you, thank you.