god images?
Eduardo Calvo Sans
images´ collages – questions´ collages
THE AUTHOR:
Eduardo CALVO SANS (1948) obtained his Physics degreee (Exact Sciences Faculty, UBA,
1974) in the middle of the political vertigo of the moment. The argentinian military coup of 1976 ended his
career as scientific investigador; he didn't leave the country, however, as most of his classmates, and
remaind in hibernation within the local industry. In 1990 he began his career as scientific
journalist, specialized in the environmental problematics. Trips and interviews led him to augur big
near future transformations, impelling him towards youth artistic dreams, now possible thanks to
computers.
page 03 (Introduction)
“Pichichú” instead of “piripipi”?
In a short time, the end of cheap energy and the climatic change may push us into a
new era.
In the next decades, the survival of our species and our Gods will be in conflict.
It's the right time to question our basic identity, the human animality and spirituality.
DO you DARE TO ANSWER these questions?
PAGES 76 – 77 (END)
dreaming about a new civilization?
To imagine
the XXI Century like a continuation of the last times is a
mistake. From now on,
the climatic change
and the rising oil price will make the coming
times very different. To make matters worse,
religious regressions
can contribute dramatically to the new reality, with
elements that emerge from our deep animal nature. During the
last two centuries, just an instant in human history, we
have lived comfortably in the easy way: we have been
burning oil, gas and
coal as if they were infinite and HARMLESS. But,
this drunkness of energy is about to become a hangover. As a result of
this bonanza, the humanity obtained in a century
much more thaN in previous millenia: the life expectancy
was multiplied, we could see "live" Neil Armstrong on the
Moon and today we can even dream –through the stem cells-
with something similar to immortality.
We are at the best time.
But, it cannot last. We do not have
power resources to give continuity to this LUCKY present. The so
denominated “alternative energies” will be enough only to
think we are doing something.
The atomic energy
could have been a solution, but our human society
- perhaps for good reasons- has decided to ban it and now we
are no longer in time to turning it on to substitute oil. We live in a
cultural trap: it is impossible for us to imagine a worthy
society without a permanent increase of its “gross product”.
The culture of oil
took us to believe
that permanent growth is unavoidable. But, if the
unrestricted availability of energy becomes impossible and
the planet overpopulation continues, it will be necessary
to rethink things in
different terms.
It is not a
problem for the next century; it is for
the day after
tomorrow. Day by day the climatic disturbances
becomes more serious and oil will never be almost free
again. Facing these
facts, the challenge is to build
a new culture, a
civilization compatible with the new reality. We should save
all the good
part
that we have been able to construct, become
a little less animals,
to avoid those tragedies that seem unavoidable at first
sight and so take
advantage of the opportunity to discard the undesirable
things of our present society.
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