We face a catastrophic ecological event produced by 10.000 years of constant deforestation and 200 years of intensive pollution. 19th century science developed into 20th century technique, producing a self-destroying scenario where architects (which for centuries created beautiful universes) are not leading in the environment anymore. We have been replaced by technocrats and engineers, who ignore the nature of things. For decades, theoretical discussions show a detachment from Habitat. Architects became fashion designers, often in giant urban proportions, building anti-sustainable contraptions in the name of sustainability. Glass towers in deserts like Dubai are seen as a success and promoted in magazines, wasting energy, resources, becoming a sad example of what not to do. Marshall McLuhan anticipated that the speed of electronic information was catapulting perception, conscience and knowledge, while Jacques-Yves Cousteau warned us that the oceans are dying. Virtual reality is deactivating children's reading, writing and interpreting capabilities (which are non-biological). In many cases, when applied to the real word, the so called search engines annihilate students' association and logical analysis capacities. Social networks kidnapped their mind. Our conscience understands what we see on screen as real, when we actually process mirrored images. For your subconscious, however, what you see in the Internet (as this) is unreliable, because it is unreal: there is no paper, no materiality, things you will never touch. Somehow we got trapped in between, we are confined in mimic information. Data collected in several published scientific researches indicate that most vertebrate and invertebrate species would approach mass extinction within decades. There are 8 million life forms on Earth: according to some sources, 150 to 200 species disappear every day, not only insects. A hundred years ago one million blue whales lived in the oceans: there are less than 1.500 left. Five billion carbon dioxide tonnes are put into the atmosphere every year, even if most of it is re-absorved falling to the land in a few years and part of it (unknown) is released to outer space... We are polluting the Earth. Every year an area of tropical and boreal forests equal to the whole surface of the United Kingdom is destroyed ¹ . Unlike the previous five known extinctions (the last one, 65 million years ago), this time could be man-made. It is not about Global Warming or Climate Change, which has not and will never be scientifically proved (it must be ovserved hundreds of times during thousand of years to reach the status of "proved"). In the last decades anyone who dares to question data becomes criminalised, called a "denier" and so. That is not science, but religion! The discussion is irrelevant: we are destroying the planet with polution and the consequence is Habitat Loss.

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