"I deny such an accusation, madam. Whatever may be my personal opinions I am not trying to impose them on your planet. I have simply taken up the task of clarifying certain truths and making your people aware of certain cold and hard mathematical equations, which will add up in the end to disaster and which cannot be changed by beliefs, prayers nor by soap operas broadcast over your video-nets."

Carlos Allones Pérez (Spain, 1955) studied two years of Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He took his degree in Sociology at the University Complutense Madrid (1983), where he worked with professors Carlos Moya, Jesús Ibañez and Agustín García Calvo on Social Action Theory, researching, for the most part, how language intervenes in the construction of collective human action.

He has lived and studied in England and the United States, and has been a professor of Sociology in the Madrid campuses of the New York State University (SUNY) and Saint Louis University. Under the direction of Juan Luis Pintos, he undertook his PhD in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1995), with a Thesis on the social relations between Family and Capitalism. He is currently a Senior Professor of Sociology in this Department.