WHAT IS 'TOO TRUE TO OUR TOWN! Stop the bulldozers Save In Italy 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 (from the site of the Republic) Given that 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 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; victims finally the inhabitants of our country, especially those of tomorrow. The data are certain to rely on the 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 surface of Lazio and Abruzzo 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 in Piazza 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 of three squares a day in Trieste, Italy. 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 covered with dead or cement. 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 government to realize this: 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) guaranteed by Article 9, the legislation is largely entrusted to the Regions and local authorities, with the result that will create great confusion, endless debates and large margin of 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 and ShopVille malls, residential areas in the country, new suburbs, which has an illegal South devastated entire areas of our thanks to amnesties wicked building. There are blatant examples: The Veneto, which since 1950 has grow its urbanized area by 324% while its population grew during the same period only 32%, has not learned anything by the flood that hit in late November. A couple of weeks later, while still did a count of the damage, the Regional Council approved a sneaky that allow you to extend the buildings on agricultural land up to 800 cubic meters, the equivalent of three flats of 90 square meters. Looking around, we feel under siege: the concrete moves, the land is tempting potentates building, which although they are increasingly important subject of journalistic investigations, and in some cases, courts do not give up the bone and seem to pass free of any obstacles, indifference that longer know whether it is guilty, uninformed or simply the result of impotence disconsolate. Moreover, building increases the GDP, but at what price. It really hurts: Italy is full of violent injuries and people end up being complicit if not undertake to say no every day, in the small, locally. This is a battle of all, without exception. Now came the multinationals that produce plants for renewable energy, along with entrepreneurs who have never cared about the environment and smelled profit, were made overnight in photovoltaic system on fertile land, wherever it happens: have succeeded in transforming the hope, the dream of clean energy here too in yet way of profiting at the expense 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 abandoned 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. Wind energy wild, 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 of citizens arises. Simply comb through the internet site of the movement "Stop the use of land", among the most active, and immediately leaps out the list of local communities who are rebelling in every region, for the most varied reasons. Mind you, this is not an article against the solar or wind power: it is against their wicked and speculative use. The usual way of messing things up, typically Italian. Also because the objective of 20% renewable energy by 2020 can be achieved very well without doing harm, and we are to reach and possibly exceed it. This is intended as a cry of pain against the use of land and agricultural land in all its forms, the largest environmental and cultural catastrophe which Italy has watched, helpless, in recent decades. Because if the agricultural land is disappearing disaster food, 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, since all its 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. So it is time to say enough, because Realize we are at a point of no return: I would suggest, 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 that then, if you come out of the tremendous current political situation, should be formalized together with 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 am sure that 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 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 being destroyed landscapes and places of the heart, another form of harassment, among many others 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 us the soul, every day. (January 18, 2011)
