Sortso many things that worry in this early year e The drama of climate change is once again in the first places in this ranking which includes wars and various disasters. But unfortunately it is not in the agendas of politics that the Green transition is no longer good because it should be financed and followed, instead it is often left on the shoulders of citizens.
However, nature does not stop, more precisely The consequences of the actions of human beings do not stop that continue to exploit the resources of the planetgaining the primacy of the only species that voluntarily undermined the conditions of its survival.
To explain it without if and without but it is The sixth extinction. An unnatural story of Elizabeth Kolbert (Neri Pozza), American journalist, Pulitzer Prize and collaborator of New Yorker. It is actually a book of ten years ago (and this speaks volumes about our myopia) that the author has updated With new scientific evidence that explains how we find ourselves in the midst of the sixth extinction of which perhaps we could still reverse the course. In short, We will not be victims of a meteorite crashed by space but only of our conduct.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
The author tells us about the facts we don’t want to see: From the devastation of the Amazon rainforest to that of the large coral reef, to the disappearance of pollinating insects. And the frightening fires of Los Angeles at the beginning of the year are the most evident test of this china.
Are we still in time?
In spite of everything, the human race is not destined to extinct but the question is: “How will it survive the events that will increasingly upset the life and well -being we know? “. If the trend does not change in fifty years, due to drought and famines, more than two billion people will be forced to emigrate because they will no longer be able to live in the lands where they have always inhabited.
“The sixth extinction. An unnatural story “by Elizabeth Kolbert (Neri Pozza).
In light of these data, attempts to stem immigration with walls or detention centers located here or there seem a joke if they did not have the dramatic implications we know. Certain A few lucky billionaire has already thought of building a villa with all comforts on Marsbut it is not a solution within everyone’s reach.
And then, wouldn’t you prefer to live on our beautiful land rather than in an inhospitable planet? “Grandparents from all over the world unite!” It is now an appeal that we can only do to them that still have at heart the future of their grandchildren.
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