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A farewell to ice
A farewell to ice
"Saddest of all is individual paralysis which is increasingly noticeable in our society..... Governments show no concern about the need to build a sustainable planet and they are interested only in their wealth.... Young people do not listen or are inspired to act, while elders do not lead or teach"
Peter Wadhams, and Maria Pia Casarini. A farewell to ice: rapporto dall'Artico. Bollati Boringhieri, 2017.
Climate - How to avoid a disaster
Climate - How to avoid a disaster
"Energy companies spend on average only 0.3 percent of their profits on research and development"
From 51 billion to ZERO
From 51 billion to ZERO
"There are two numbers to know when it comes to climate change. The first is fifty-one billion. The second is zero. Fifty-one billion is the number of tons of greenhouse gases that are typically emitted into the atmosphere on an annual basis around the world. While that figure may increase or decrease slightly from year to year, it usually does. Zero is the number we need to aim for. To stop global warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change, which will be very serious, humans must stop releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere"
Gates, Bill. Clima. Come evitare un disastro. La Nave di Teseo Editore spa, 2021.
An agriculture for a sustainable future
"The average British citizen has 300 to 500 more chemicals built up in their bodies than they did fifty years ago."
Cit. Piero Bevilacqua, Un'agricoltura per il futuro della terra, 2022
Communicate sustainability
"Greenwashing occurs whenever a company justifies its initiative by giving environmental, social responsibility (ESG) reasons that are not actually true."
Cobianchi, Aldo Bolognini. Comunicare la Sostenibilità: Oltre il Greenwashing. HOEPLI EDITORE, 2022.
Who will feed the world?
"In 1995, the UN calculated that industrial agriculture had caused the extinction of more than 75% of agro-biodiversity, i.e. the biodiversity present in agriculture. Today the number of extinct plant species has probably reached 90%."
Cit. Vandana Shiva, Chi nutrirà il mondo?, 2015
The earth of tomorrow
"Our brains only retain memories of weather extremes for between two and eight years. On a rapidly changing planet, we lack a framework to help us determine how unusual our weather experiences are."
Eric Holthaus, La terra di domani, Giuliana Lupi, HarperCollins, 2022
The world on fire
"When we needed to unite, our public sphere was disintegrating, just when we needed to consume less, consumerism took over our entire lives, just when we needed to slow down to understand, we speeded up, and just when we needed of wider time horizons we were only able to see the immediate present, trapped in our social media."
Klein, Naomi. Il mondo in fiamme: contro il capitalismo per salvare il clima. Feltrinelli Editore, 2021.
The physics of climate change
"The temperature increase in the oceans over the next thousand years will be nearly 0.5°C, and this prediction is pretty much already set in stone as that heat has already been deposited over the last century."
Krauss, Lawrence M. La fisica del cambiamento climatico. Raffaello Cortina, 2022.
The uninhabitable Earth
"The natural lifespan of a civilization may be several hundred thousand years, that of an industrial civilization, conceivably, only a few hundred years. In a universe billions of years old, with star systems separated by both time and space, civilizations may simply arise and develop and destroy themselves too rapidly to have time to find others."
Wallace-Wells, David. The earth inabitabile. Edizioni Mondadori, 2020.
Minutes counted
"L'AIE (International Energy Agency) predicts that if the world proceeds on its present course, by 2040 there will be no reduction in global CO2 emissions. Today they stand at 33 billion tons, but it will reach 41 billion tons."
Chomsky, Noam, C. J. Polychroniou, and Robert Pollin. Minuti contati: crisi climatica e green new deal globale. Ponte alle Grazie, 2020.
The politics of climate change
"Technological innovation rarely determines what people do, because we often react to it in ways its initiators didn't suspect."
Anthony Giddens, La politica del cambiamento climatico, Il saggiatore, 2015
Green, indeed very green
"The climate is changing, why don't we do it too? Sustainability communication needs to be improved. This is what emerges from the study presented in January 2021 by Astarea (Goal 9)."
Sobrero, Rossella. Verde, anzi verdissimo: comunicare la sostenibilità evitando il rischio greenwashing. EGEA spa, 2022.
Carbon almanac
“If this book inspires you enough to share a copy with a friend, it will be worth it. If it inspires you and your friends to organize a fellowship of ten, it will have made a difference. And if you ten coordinate with others ten groups to foster organizational and cultural change, will have been a success. We have the opportunity to focus on the things that really matter, and to do it with grace and urgency. If not now, when?"
Seth Godin, Carbon almanac: guida al cambiamento climatico, Penguin Books Ldt, 2022.
Zero impact power supply
"The plastic waste produced every year - 25 million tons, almost 50% of the plastics produced - only 30% is recycled, while 39% is incinerated and the remaining 31% ends up in landfills. More than 60% of the 25 million of plastic waste in question comes from packaging materials."
Claudio Palerma, Alessandra Sorvilla, Alimentazione a impatto zero, Un progetto di Rotary, Edita, 2018.
Ecopessimism
"The end of the human race will consist in perishing through an excess of civilization."
Claudio Kulesko, Ecopessimismo, Sentieri nell'antropocene futuro, Piano B Edizioni, 2023.
The selfish monkey
“The greatest contribution an individual can make to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is to be dead. Failing that, the next best thing is to refrain from having babies.”
Nicholas P. Money, La scimmia egoista, Perché l'essere umano deve estinguersi, Il saggiatore, 2020.
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Carnivorous capitalism
“With synthetic meat, it is estimated that we would only need 150 cattle to produce the amount of meat that is consumed today. 75% of the land that is now used for animal feed could be freed up for other more sustainable crops. of pesticides and fertilizers that suffocate biodiversity would experience a slowdown."
Francesca Grazioli, Capitalismo carnivoro, Allevamenti intensivi, carni sintetiche e il futuro del mondo, Il Saggiatore, 2022,
The future written in water
"Phytoplankton forced to live in more acidic waters tend to release less Dimethyl Sulfide DMS. Once in the atmosphere they undergo chemical reactions that help the formation of clouds. They tend to shield solar radiation, mitigating global warming. A lower production of DMS due to the progressive acidification of the oceans would therefore favor a further increase in temperature."
Sandro Carniel, Oceani, Il futuro scritto nell'acqua, Microscopi, Hoepli, 2017.
Time and water
"Your time is the time of someone you know, love and who influences you. You can have a direct influence on a future of 262 years. Grandma teaches you, you teach your great-granddaughter. You can influence the future until to 2186."
"Peace doesn't mean we won't have problems anymore. Problems will always be with us. Peace means changing the way we see problems and the way we solve them."
Dalai lama
Andri Snaer MAGNASON, Il tempo e l'acqua, Iperborea, 2020.
Anthropology of food
"The refrigerator, the conservation processes, the containers have made up for the food shortage by generating the opposite problem, that of having too much food available. From the constant and impossible to satisfy hunger, we have moved on to a hunger that is always satisfied and now often driven by food boredom: you eat for leisure etc..."
Alexander Koensler, Pietro Meloni, Antropologia dell'alimentazione, Produzione, consumo, movimenti sociali, Carocci Editore, 2019.
Ice
"Climate models are projections that try to represent the health of our planet as roughly as possible, or rather the processes that regulate its functioning, and it is thanks to them that we can try to understand what happened in the past and what will happen in the future."
Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores D'Arcais, Ghiaccio, Viaggio nel continente che scompare, Il Saggiatore, 2019.
Only sixty crops remain
"Now that a sixth of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost, the fear is that the tipping point could soon be reached, beyond which the entire rainforest could dry out and degrade to savannah. And with it, the means to protect nature and slow down climate change would disappear."
Philip Lymbery, Restano solo sessanta raccolti, Come raggiungere un futuro in armonia con la natura, Nutrimenti, Igloo99, 2023.
Nuclear energy
"Man is immersed in a sea of radioactivity. The human body is radioactive, the water or milk we drink is radioactive, the food we eat is radioactive, the air we breathe (especially in a closed room, due to radon) is radioactive."
Luigi De Paoli, L'energia nucleare, Costi e benefici di una tecnologia controversa, Il mulino, 2011.
Back to nuclear power?
"Chernobyl was certainly a major and major accident. But its origin should not be sought in the malfunctioning of nuclear power plants. It is rather the symbol of the failure of Soviet companies to handle sophisticated technologies with poor methodologies, with inadequate investments, without any transparency and information on risks. "
Chicco Testa, Tornare al nucleare?, l'italia, l'energia, l'ambiente, einaudi, Torino 2008.
Eco economy
"How likely is an economist with no training in ecology to design an environmentally sustainable economy? Not many. The same can be said of all the influential business decision makers, business planners, government policy makers, investment bank managers."
Lester R. Brown, Eco economy, Una nuova economia per la Terra, Editori Riuniti, 2001.
Silent spring
"People born before 1942 have no traces of toxic substances in their bodies. Since 1954, people had an average of 5.3 to 7.4 ppm. Researchers at the United States Public Health Service concluded through research that DDT it is present in most, if not all, of our foods. Most people not subjected to intense DDT exposures have accumulated the toxicant in their fatty tissues through food."
Rachel Carson, Primavera silenziosa, Feltrinelli editore Milano, 1962.
Towards an ecology of mind
"Civilizations are born and die. A new technology for the exploitation of nature or a new technique for exploiting other men allows the birth of a civilization. But, when it reaches the limits of what it can exploit in that given way, that civilization is destined to disappear sooner or later."
Gregory Bateson, Towards an ecology of mind, Scientific Library 1, Adelphi, 1977.
A treasure on the ground floor
"A society without geosciences could metaphorically be compared to a blindfolded man walking on the edge of a cliff: he has no way of perceiving and knowing the imminent danger. "
Andrea Moccia, Un tesoro al piano terra, 2019 RCS MediaGroup s.p.a, Milano.
Looking for energy
"Do you understand the discussion between ideal and reality? Perhaps it is our duty to start thinking realistically, to find concrete solutions today, not in 50 years."
Andrea Moccia, Cercasi energia, 2022 RCS MediaGroup s.p.a, Milano.
Jungles
"The representation of the dramatic extinction of dinosaurs often leads us to associate them with failure. We forget that between 230 and 66 million years ago, they represent one of the most successful animal groups that has ever circulated on the planet. About 23 times more than long of our own species."
Patrick Roberts Jungles, Aboca, Human Ecology Essays, 2021.
PFASS
The eternal and invisible pollutants in water
"Today they are also used in food packaging, textile and furniture products, leather garments, dental floss, baking paper, medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, make-up, such as refrigerant gases, etc... Every person throughout their life has definitely come into contact with products containing or manufactured with carcinogenic substances (PFOA).
Giuseppe Ungherese, prefazione di Robert Bilott, PFAS Gli inquinanti eterni e invisibili nell'acqua, Storie di diritti negati e cittadinanza attiva, Altraeconomia Le talpe, 2024.
It's too late to be pessimistic
How to stop the impending ecological catatrophy
"Action should be taken to avoid the demise of humanity, but doing so is unprofitable and the performance gap between the survival of the 99% and the profits of the 1% is likely to persist because there is no global power capable of imposing a carbon price that puts all capitalists on the same equal footing in the race for profit, so nothing gets done. "
Daniel Tanuro, E' troppo tardi per essere pessimisti, Come fermare la catastrofe ecologica imminente, Edizioni Alegre, 2020.
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
"The laws of nature, applied to man as a rational being, show no tendency to destroy half the human race before the age of puberty. This happens only under special circumstances, or when the constant admonitions which these laws address to mankind are obstinately neglected."
Malthus, T. R. (1868). Saggio sul principio della popolazione (Vol. 11). stamperia dell'Unione-tipografico editrice.
The new limits of development
"The future is no longer ... what it could have been if men had known how to better use their brains and their opportunities. But it can still be what they can reasonably and realistically want."
Aurelio Peccei, 1981
Donella e Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, I nuovi limiti dello sviluppo, la salute del pianeta nel terzo millennio, Oscar Mondadori, 2006.
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