The New Year is a time to take stock. The border between December 31 and January 1 may be symbolic territory, but it also offers a real opportunity to start from scratch and make decisions, big or small, that can change the course of our lives.

So, that is the objective of the CONSOLE project, which seeks to establish a scientific, but above all human, base that allows better decisions to be made and to generate a total sustainable agricultural production.

I am resolved throughout the year
To lay my vices on the shelf;
A godly, sober course to steer
And love my neighbors as myself—
Excepting always two or three
Whom I detest as they hate me.


I am resolved—to flirt no more,
It leads to strife and tribulation;
Not that I used to flirt before,
But as a bar against temptation.
Here I except (cut out the names)
Perfectly Platonic flames.

Many other authors have written about those purposes that we have all thought of at some time. Rudyard Kipling, for example, takes it with a certain humour in this poem entitled, precisely, ‘New Year’s Resolutions:

New Year’s Day,
so much waiting, so what ?:
One more day.

However, most see the entries of the year as new opportunities to progress and be better as you can see in this verse by Mario Benedetti:

Don’t give up, you still have time
To reach out and start over
Accept your shadows
Bury your fears
Drop the ballast
Take flight again

In general, except in very exceptional cases, society as a whole has a positive trend firmly believing that we are going to improve one year after another and that we will have the strength to create a better world. But to improve, we must know our are our defects, accept them and correct them in time; what if it is a highly difficult task, right?

Since the 1970s, scientists have shown how the means of production, although they have allowed Europe to advance economically and socially, have not been correct since they have compromised the health of the planet and the people who live there. And again we have the opportunity to do things much better, by creating a sustainable model that is respectful of the environment and health.

And, despite the hardships that still face us, how good it would be to start this year 2022 leaving a little seed of hopes. 

Happy New Year