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Environmental eyes of the world on SA

Brace yourself Durban. Top politicians and scientists will be arguing about the future and well-being of the planet, there will be massive street protests, 30 000 visitors, including rock stars and Hollywood royalty, will flood the city and surrounding areas, special climate trains and eco buses – we will be seeing it all.

If you haven’t cottoned on to it yet, Durban and COP17 are the latest buzzwords in the environmental world. If you haven’t read about the mega-event taking place from November 28 to December 9 in local papers, then just switch to major international news networks such as CNN which are awash with news and updates from Durban on the climate talk preparations.

CNN is running a series entitled The Road to Durban, showing footage from the UK, Germany, Turkey and Kenya, on the planning, environmental and sustainability issues facing the world’s cities, as well as the green initiatives being developed to tackle them.

The world’s air is polluted, water scarcity is becoming a major problem and renewable forms of energy need to be heavily invested in. Developed countries such as the US need to commit to reducing their carbon emissions.

And city officials and activists are concerned that Durbanites should be leading the green campaign and be ready to show off how environmentally friendly the city and its citizens are as eThekwini prepares itself for what everyone who is anyone is describing as “the biggest conference the country has hosted”.

Don’t be mistaken, the climate talks are not just the domain of sombre-suited types zipping around the exclusive ICC zone dragging along trolley suitcases packed with lengthy documents of how many bad things they think can be let into the atmosphere.

We’re talking the Richard Bransons, Bonos and Al Gores of this world as well as chief executive officers from the world’s largest multi-national companies. They drive the latest fanciest “green” cars, they’re the jet-set with a whole lot of American Express cards to throw around in our coastal city.

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Latin America General and Mesoamerican region of Mexico, in particular, is a place where history is literally sleeping on the monuments and images created by many tribes ethnic living in the region for centuries. In other words we can say that these objects are guardians of a rich culture that united these people for thousands of years. Chichen Itza monuments are the creation of the Mayan civilization that existed in the classes are 600 AD. The monuments are located in north-central of the Yucatan Peninsula and managed by the National Institute of Anthropology and History Mexico (INAH), but the land is owned by the family Barbachano.

The power of myth!

The impressive structures built by these prehistoric people are objects so surprising to the modern world wonder how these people that in the absence of wheel cart made all these things. Even the most beautiful is the way these tribes were an empire and lived together, how these myths unfathomable to run an empire into a cohesive society, however, ask others, and even modern, well equipped army can not sustain a nation. Please remember that most of the Inca Empire in South America and the Caribbean.

Maya Empire Capital

Chichen Itza Map courtsey: cancun.bz

The city of Chichén Itzá (which means "mouth of the well of the Itza") was Regents of the capital, where many of the Mayan structures of great archaeological value are found, while some of them are the remains of a single good many of them are quite intact to tell their stories. The ancient city of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mesoamerican region (the Mesoamerican region, which lies between the two Americas).

No wheeled carts to any animal work

Chichen Itza – Columns in the Temple of a Thousand Warriors

These people do not know how to domesticate animals and make them work and trolleys are also not known. They were expert in geometry, medical science, astrology, architecture, etc. The architecture is a mix of what prevailed in central Mexico and locally developed skills.

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