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Committed Against Climate Change
Mercedes Martín
Editor and weather presenter
Antena 3 TV
Editor and weather presenter in Antena 3 TV morning news since 2014. Graduated in Oceanography and Environmental Sciences from Cádiz University. After that, I studied applied remote sensing at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). I was part of the Marie Curie investigation program `Throughflow Project´ in the London Natural History Museum, where I helped 11 researchers to restore the origin of biodiversity in the most varied marine ecosystem in the Earth. One year later, I came back to Spain to get in to the Faculty of Physics to specialize in Meteorology. I did my internship in TVE (the national state-owned television broadcaster in Spain). It was in that moment when I got the chance to start my career in communication.
In the last years I have been focused on diffusion and divulgation. The climate change is a controversial topic but not many people are able to explain what it involves, what are its consequences, why this happens, how to fight against it or how to reduce its effects… So, this is my challenge: informing on this alarming issue with scientific rigor, honesty and transparency.
Only an informed society is capable of activating itself and giving the answer needed by the environmental crisis.Ángel Cano - Climate Reality Spain and Asociación Despierta
Positive awareness is very effective but without forgetting the dimension of the problem.Ángel Cano - Climate Reality Spain and Asociación Despierta
Fear can paralyze but accompanied by solutions has proven to address the change.Ángel Cano - Climate Reality Spain and Asociación Despierta
We live in the age of entertainment, which means that we do not pay attention to what is important, that is why it is so necessary to inform about risks and solutions.Ángel Cano - Climate Reality Spain and Asociación Despierta
Our realistic goal is to minimize the most destructive consequences of global warming, the least destructive ones we are already suffering.Ángel Cano - Climate Reality Spain and Asociación Despierta
The road has to go through involving the social mass, companies and governments already know the problem and make great efforts but there are big vested interests and misunderstood ideology that interfere and hinder the urgent need to have an informed social mass that remembers in the same direction. When we are all convinced (less that their salary depends on their not being), we can create a society free of emissions, we have talent, technology and money, just lack will.Ángel Cano - Climate Reality Spain and Asociación Despierta