CEMENT
Stop the bulldozers - save Italy
In 15 years built three million hectares, the equivalent of Lazio and Abruzzo combined. And with the housing plan, the process has been accelerated. Appeals to stop the destruction of the landscape, before it's too late by Carlo Petrini
Since the models on TV to tell the most heinous crimes seem to have become indispensable, I would then propose a very interesting: a scale reproduction of ' Italy, a huge crime scene. The weapons are the cement warehouses, shopping centers, real estate speculation and many plants to produce energy, renewable and non motives are greed and stupidity, all the murderers who have responsibility to say yes, the accomplices of those who do not say no, the victims then the inhabitants of our country, especially those of tomorrow.
reliable data on which I rely are few, not always consistent because of different measurement methods, but all speak to us in a uniquely impressive consumption of Italian territory. We are always a compromise for the common good, so that the private ownership of land does not give automatic right to be able to destroy and thus shield it from future generations. About two years ago on these pages show that the equivalent the area of \u200b\u200bAbruzzo, Lazio and put together, more than 3 million acres free of buildings and infrastructure, had disappeared in just 15 years, from 1990 to 2005. Since 1950 we have lost 40% of the free surface, with peak regional talk to us, according to data from the Center for Research on land use, a reduced half Liguria, Lombardy, which has seen a daily from 1999 to 2007 , make an area equivalent to six times square Duomo in Milan. It does not end here: in Emilia Romagna 1976 to 2003 every day he consumed a quantity of soil to twelve times the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, in Friuli Venezia Giulia from 1980 to 2000 units three Squares Trieste of Italy in a day. And most of these lands were used for agriculture. To return to the data overall, from 1990 to 2005 have exceeded two million hectares of agricultural land dead or covered in concrete.
As you can see, the available figures do not take into account the recent years, but suffice it to travel a little 'to Italy and take note of the initiatives of this government (the House floor, for example) and local governments to realize It seems that there is no territory, municipality, province or region that is grappling with a wild and uncontrolled occupation of the free. Unfortunately, although the landscape is a constitutional right (the only case in Europe) ensured Article 9, the legislation is largely entrusted to the Regions and local authorities, with the result that will create great confusion, endless debates and plenty of room for action for the speculators. For example, the recent regional law approved in Tuscany, which prohibits the installation of photovoltaic systems on the ground seems valid, but it is already challenged by some political forces. In Piedmont, was instead passed a similar law, but less effective, raising serious concerns from the Movement to Stop Power of the Territory. " In fact, in spite of the national guidelines for photovoltaic systems - those eat-agriculture - they keep popping up like mushrooms in the same way of shopping malls e delle shopville, di aree residenziali in campagna, di nuovi quartieri periferici, di un abusivismo che ha devastato interi territori del nostro Meridione anche grazie a condoni edilizi scellerati.
Ci sono esempi clamorosi: Il Veneto, che dal 1950 ha fatto crescere la sua superficie urbanizzata del 324% mentre la sua popolazione è cresciuta nello stesso periodo solo per il 32%, non ha imparato nulla dall'alluvione che l'ha colpito a fine novembre. Un paio di settimane dopo, mentre ancora si faceva la conta dei danni, il Consiglio Regionale ha approvato una leggina che consente di ampliare gli edifici su terreni agricoli fino a 800 metri cubi, l'equivalente di tre alloggi di 90 metri quadri.
Guardandoci attorno ci sentiamo assediati: il cemento avanza, la terra fa gola a potentati edilizi, che nonostante siano sempre più oggetto d'importanti inchieste giornalistiche, e in alcuni casi anche giudiziarie, non mollano l'osso e sembrano passare indenni qualsiasi ostacolo, in un'indifferenza che non si sa più se sia colpevole, disinformata o semplicemente frutto di un'impotenza sconsolata. Del resto, costruire fa crescere il Pil, ma a che prezzo. Fa davvero male: l'Italia è piena di ferite violente e i cittadini finiscono con il diventare complici se non s'impegnano nel dire no quotidianamente, nel piccolo, a livello locale. Questa è una battaglia di tutti, nessuno escluso.
Ora si sono aggiunte le multinazionali che producono systems for renewable energy, along with entrepreneurs who have never cared about the environment, and sniffed the profit, they got a photovoltaic system overnight on fertile land, wherever it happens: they succeeded in transforming hope, dream of clean energy even in yet so we have to make a profit to the detriment of the Earth. Also of PV on agricultural soils have already written on these pages, taking as inspiration the delicate situation in Puglia. The photovoltaic panels on the floor completely dry up the soil in a short time, causing the soil sealing, that is, the sealing of land, and is profoundly stupid devote vast expanses of arable land in the name of lavish incentives, when you could install on warehouses, industrial areas or in use, abandoned quarries, along the highways. Germany, which is really light years ahead of the rest of Europe on renewables, for example, does not give incentives to those who put solar panels on the ground, always. Wild wind power, oversized, often in the odor of mafia and wasteful if you're average readers of newspapers and audiences of the faithful Report on Rai Tre already know: not a week goes by that we speak up for some testing, primarily local, because some committee citizens arises. Simply comb through the internet site of the movement "Stop the use of land", among the most active, and immediately jumps agli occhi l'elenco delle comunità locali che si stanno ribellando, in ogni Regione, per i più disparati motivi.
Intendiamoci, questo non è un articolo contro il fotovoltaico o l'eolico: è contro il loro uso scellerato e speculativo. Il solito modo di rovinare le cose, tipicamente italiano. Anche perché l'obiettivo del 20% di energie rinnovabili entro il 2020 si può raggiungere benissimo senza fare danni, e noi siamo per raggiungerlo ed eventualmente superarlo. Questo vuole essere un grido di dolore contro il consumo di territorio e di suolo agricolo in tutte le sue forme, la più grande catastrofe ambientale e culturale cui l'Italia abbia assistito, inerme, negli ultimi decenni. Perché se la terra Food is disappearing agricultural disaster, hydrogeological, environmental, landscape. It 's like to borrow life and their children and grandchildren into debt to buy a bigger TV: no more stupid.
The problem then dovetails perfectly with the general crisis in agriculture is going through a bit 'of years, given that all sectors are suffering. Are recent Eurostat data that give further confirmation of the trend: "The per capita income of farmers in 2010 decreased by 3.3% and about 17% lower than five years ago." So it's easier to convince disaffected farmers to surrender, and their land, to speculation or related to renewable energies. Remember that agriculture is not defending defending a good (or rude) ancient world, but we defend our country, our ability to make local communities, a future that can still hope to cover real well-being and such beauty.
This is the time to say enough, so Let us realize that we have reached a point of no return: I would like to propose, and hope to be enacted, a national moratorium against the use of free soil. Not a total block of the building, which may well move towards empty or abandoned buildings, the renovation of buildings left to themselves or the demolition of dilapidated to make room for new ones. Need something strong, a collection of signatures, a firm statement that more arrests for the disappearance of farmland in our country, ugly and useless buildings, shopping centers that diminish as men and women, reducing them to consumers-automata, only and abbruttiti.
A moratorium then, if you come out of the tremendous current political situation, they should jointly make official the Ministry of Agriculture, the Environment and also that of Cultural Heritage, because our territory is the first cultural heritage of this nation that is about to turn 150 years old. I'm sure the many organizations working in this direction, as my Slow Food, or for example the aforementioned net Stop the use of land, the Italian Environmental Fund, environmental organizations, including the category of farmers and the myriad of civic committees over the place will all agree and are willing to join forces. It's time to make a joint campaign, to preside over the territory in a capillary at the local level, to amplify the cry of millions of Italians who are tired of having to destroy landscapes and places of the heart, another form of harassment, including the many who suffer, even on what is free and has no price: beauty. Why look around: there is everywhere, especially in the little things that are before our eyes. It is a form of poetry available anywhere, that we should not remove, devotion and respect it deserves, that saves the soul, every day.
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