Descripción: “...Such short-term development model based on exhaustive extraction, the price of contamination and degradation of natural resources regarding the fabrication of sumptuary goods and services puts basic conditions of wellbeing at risk for current and future generations from other regions of the planet. New patterns of drought and flooding dealing harsh blows to public resources are already being perceived, as well as countries’ social and economic basis, promoting economic, environmental and public health problems in Latin-America.The following document reviews what is known to date about climate change and how society’s development has promoted such a phenomenon. ...”