JORGE RODRIGUES SIMÃO

China’s rise since the 1980s has shown contemporary and modern China in a new light. The reforms implemented after the passing of Mao Zedong have produced dramatic results. It is still too early to fully evaluate the overall impact of these reforms, but an economy with a sustained double-digit growth rate for some two decades cannot be brushed aside as an accident. Nor can China’s rise be viewed narrowly as an economic phenomenon, for without the aggregate energy and ingenuity of the people, the leadership of the country, or even the structure of the political system, China would not be where it is today. To be sure, there is much to be desired in China’s leadership and political system. Who can say that the nation would not have attained even greater achievements, or that the quality of life for its citizens would not have improved even more, had the mix of ingredients been somehow different?

Furthermore, we must also factor in the historical and cultural contexts. There is much to describe, analyze, and understand about modern China. We had a project – to write about this extraordinary country from 1800 to the present; topics range from the daily life of common folks to the ever-changing structure of the banking system that is part of the engine of China’s recent transformation.

“Many people call Earth the “water planet” because about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water. But, only a small portion is available for human use. Of the world’s total water supply, 97 percent is located in the oceans and is salt water. Only about three percent is freshwater. More than three-quarters of Earth’s freshwater is frozen in glaciers. Of the less than one percent of Earth’s total water supply that is available for human use, much of it lies beneath Earth’s surface.”

Glencoe Science: The Water Planet

Ralph M. Feather Jr.

O “Dia Mundial da Terra” é comemorado pela 42.ª vez, no próximo dia 22, e dedicado ao tema da “Água”. O mundo foi alterado profundamente, pela ciência, desde o início da Revolução Industrial. Podemos lamentar o acontecido, mas não temos qualquer possibilidade prática de invertermos o sentido dos ponteiros do relógio e regrarmos a 1800. Se tal capacidade houvesse, não seriam muitas as pessoas que desejariam voltar a esse passado, que desconhecem. Ainda que, não possamos retroceder no tempo, e tendo apenas o futuro pela frente, todos os componentes da sociedade global, enquanto membros da espécie humana, tem de pensar seriamente na forma como iremos caminhar daqui em diante.

Estamos perante graves problemas que não se restringem ao domínio económico-financeiro, mas que vão mais além, e que contendem com a explosão demográfica e aquecimento do planeta, que teremos de minimizar, na impossibilidade de encontrar uma fórmula mágica que os solucione. São demasiado preocupantes os avanços da ciência que ameaçam cada vez mais a sobrevivência da espécie humana. Anteriormente tal ameaça, provinha da possibilidade de uma guerra nuclear generalizada. A hipótese de deflagração de uma guerra com essas características diminuiu, senão mesmo foi eliminada, desde o colapso da União Soviética.

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