When we talk about the future it is fashionable to say that young people will save us. And on the climate issue, we say it with even more conviction since a teenager, Greta Thunberg, started a global movement that has changed the agendas of many governments. Epper, take these days, take this June. Never so hot, in Italy, but also in the rest of Europe.
We are all environmentalists for a month
by Riccardo Luna
Just as summer had been hot in Australia and South America. We’ve been saying this for a while after all. But climate change, year over year, is almost imperceptible. To measure the real change taking place it takes at least a decade. Istat has recently measured it and this turning point, global warming, can be seen very well for Italy.
But even without the numbers, if you are no longer young, you remember very well what summer was like in Italy twenty years ago. How could you resist without air conditioning when June was only June, the end of spring, and not an advance of August 15th. This is to say that yes young people will save us but it is we, who are over 30 years old, who can tell them that climate change is a huge and apparently unstoppable phenomenon and that it is happening in our homes. And that we must do something, without panic, but with urgency.
Do we have the right to change the weather?
by Riccardo Luna
We must “jam this deadly machine that is our present”, as an Italian activist claims: it means making a revolution that starts with individual behavior: less consumption, less waste, enough with polluting products, enough with disposable because the world it is not our landfill. For a few days, since I saw the terrifying dry of the Po, I have been watering the plants with the water I use to boil the pasta. Like my grandmother did. To make young people understand that we feel this challenge is ours, we need symbolic gestures.