Cosmos, Order, and Obligations: The Big CO2

Abstract

Although predicted for XXI century by Nostradamus the ecological disasters were continuously produced by Man, most notably those rooting in atomic and nuclear energy; however, the most subtle contribution of humankind is that regarding the carbon-oxides, the most paradoxical molecular combinations: carbon that sustain organic chemistry and life itself and the oxygen which is equivalent with air and water elements in human life; and still, their combination is harmful for each day life from some decades already. Nevertheless from the modern age, the industry was reluctantly in avoiding the carbon-oxides accumulations either on air, soil, and water; the inspired epoch of the foreground principles of life coming from ancient Indian, Chinese and Greek philosophies was abolished leaving with the modern principles of the so called Green Chemistry; they are not seen as a new paradigm of life being but a set of rules the great investors and industry should follow in order preserving the sustainability concept that is to assure “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs” [1]. Worth, for clarity resuming these principles in Table 1 so that the fundamental and engineering sides of them to be seen face-to-face. Note that the fundamental principles constitute the background or the general frame or desiderate that is eventually supported by associate engineering principle; as well the green engineering is mainly constructed on “minimizing” or “maximizing” the time, space, energy, costs, being constituted either in an economical enterprise as well as an extension of the main principles of nature in terms of optimizing mass-energy and time-space. From this point ahead the physical and chemical most basic principles are seen as those acting on each process, system, or state to be created, maintained or modified. It is therefore this the main reason a most comprehensive physicochemical view of Universe should be desirable in order to asses, monitoring and controlling the micro- and macro- environment life. Moreover, there is here the proper place and time to ask “Where the environment frontiers are?” with obvious impediment in clear answer; this because the environment is respecting the referential we assume: for nucleus the electrons and other nuclei or atoms is the environment, whereas for Man either the molecule (through food), atoms (through air and water) or light, the Moon, the Sun and even the entirely constellation (native and others) may constitute as more or less influential factors–thus its environment. There is an already learned lesson of humankind that when some physical system is defined with some limit the next limits generation is further challenged; there were times when molecules were the basic constituent of matter, then the atoms, then the nuclei and electrons, then the quarks, then the rishons, now the “God” particles are searched for, as Higgs bosons are presumed, with the strange ability to create mass from no-mass reality by means of the so called “spontaneous broken symmetry” or energy-space-time fold of early universe. With all these the “new history” of Universe should be seen through the environmental eyes of each level create by Nature: as such environmental sciences should be regarded as an endeavor in unifying all sciences that address the life and its dynamics at whatever level of comprehension, either in time or space. In order to shortly make an idea to which questions the International Journal of Environment Sciences likes to give specific answers in Table 2 there are listed the actual most intriguing demands in science along the assumed discipline or field or research engaged in questing the issues. However, all these issues had risen on last two hundred years of thinking and may be thought as an actual unfold of the fundamental Kantian rhetoric: What can I know? What should I do? What can I hope? What is Man? For sure that actual knowledge has expanded greatly both the individual and global (social) capacity of comprehending the cosmos formation, change and impact on mankind every-day