CÈSAR DAVID MARTÌNEZ
"EL CERREÒN: PAPAYAL – BARRANCAS – HATONUEVO MINNING COMPLEX. LA GUAJIRA – COLUMBIA"
Here begins the Climate Change. The biggest open pit mine in Colombia and one of the biggest in the world, shows the deep impact that the extraction of one of the worst polluter and greenhouse gases causes in nature and environment: The coal.
The companies claim to be responsible mining; but the fact is that all the ecosystems in the surrounding area are devastated and the temperature is getting higher in this area also, reaching top measures on last years. The coal, the biggest energy supplier in the world, is also one of the greatest polluters. Thousands of energy companies are right now in construction, which will be powered by coal. Coal was fundamental in the development of the industrial era; but also took us to this increase of the temperature on a global level. Paradoxically, the world needs in urgency to stop the use of coal, to stop the global warming and climate change.