Gonzalo Delacámara
We’re ignoring the value of water – and that means we’re devaluing it
Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist who was recognised with the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, gave an interview more than a decade ago in whic…
The perils of speculation and speculations in California’s water futures market
John Burroughs (1837-1921), an American naturalist and nature essayist, once said: “When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each…
Climate change and water security in Peru: cat ice skating
How climate change conditions the development of emerging countries – The false bonanza from melting Andean glaciers in Peru. *Cat ice is a thin sheet of ice,…
The global COVID-19 pandemic and a false sense of (water) security
*A slightly different and shorter version of this article was originally published in Spanish on CONAMA (El Congreso Nacional del Medio Ambiente – The Spanish N…
Women and water: when everything remains to be done or an elephant in the room
The echoes of the International Women's Day (March 8th), celebrated all over the world last Friday in defence of the end of the severe anomaly around gender ine…
Reason, climate change and federalism
Reason does neither arise spontaneously nor is it part of an individual endeavour. It is a social, collective conquest. It is so because it emerges precisely fr…
Climate refugees: towards a global, federal solution
In 1915, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters published the “Anthology of Spoon River”, a collection of short poems in free verse that collectively narrates the …