Today Sanremo begins and it is immediately a party. This week we will not talk about anything else and I do not shy away. For example, I wonder when we will have an edition of the festival most loved by Italians that is sustainable, with zero impact, or with zero carbon dioxide emissions. In a year, in five, by 2030? Is anyone in Rai thinking about how to do it? Is the municipality of the city of flowers asking itself the problem? This year the main sponsor has obtained to change the color of the red carpet on which the artists and guests of the Ariston pass: it will be green.
E the SIAE who organizes a meeting every year in a square to talk about music, claims to have prepared a green edition just because there is a garden. It seems to me a little bit. Indeed, very little. But if we want to look at things with a bit of optimism, at least this year the theme exists. It is not trivial and it is not out of stubbornness that we talk about it. But because Sanremo is the mirror in which the country is reflected every year. A country engaged in an ecological transition that is not very easy and will be necessary.
If the Sanremo Festival really chose the path of sustainability with conviction, it would be an example for everyone. It is not a question of making a “poor” edition, but for example of eliminating all waste, making sure that surpluses of food and drinks go to those in need, eliminating disposable plastic where possible, making arrangements by recycling those of previous years and in turn recyclable, activate an energy community in the municipality of Sanremo so that the large amount of electricity that is inevitably used for a festival is renewable and clean. It can be done, otherwise that green carpet in front of the Ariston will only serve to hide our hypocrisy.