Yesterday, just hours before the summit at 5 with Renzi, Hollande and Cameron , Obama and Merkel were to Hanover fair , the world’s most important industrial trade fair, which began in 1947 in this city was destroyed in a single night in 1943 and became the symbol of German industrial rebirth after the horrors of Nazism. It is 5 fairs on five themes gathered in one place, industrial automation, energy, research and technology, manufacturing, digital; the guiding theme of the event is the ‘ built-in industry : that is, the idea of the “fourth industrial revolution”, the rage in Germany from 2011, which consists in’ integration of cyber-physical systems in industrial processes , made possible by the digital and work in networks. The winning item is no longer just the industrial product or process to get there, but the “connection” between sectors and productions that “speak to one another” and with the consumer-citizen-manufacturer through the internet: in short industry “4.0″ that produces precisely the internet of things, where everything will be connected to make us live better and consume less (dixit), from the coffee machine to the crane.
I am also in Hanover, and, while admitting my total incompetence in technical matters and my total skepticism on the transatlantic partnership Treaty (TTIP) that Merkel and Obama have here tried to raise, I must say that it is now hard for ecologist self-respecting, not hear the charm of machines, bolts, strange plants psychedelic lights, gears, pumps, robots, gadgets use unsuspected; also because more and more the recovery in manufacturing and innovation go by the knowledge that we have to beat climate change and “adapt” with new products and a new way of living, move, consume the scarcity of resources and the dangers of pollution and you can drag the world out of poverty and conflict, overcoming our dependence on fossil . Among the various stands futuristic, there are dozens of lords and ladies with the improbable pastel ties and impeccable suits that explain how to save energy, how to make fully automated home, how to make industrial processes cleaner and more effective, how to produce with materials “so economical”, how to organize work and production in a manner consistent with the objective to decouple economic growth from resource consumption.
in speeches and lectures frequently returns theme of ‘ Paris and responsibility of the economic world ; It is not surprising, given that one of the novelties of COP21 was the visibility of the economic and industrial world in the climate challenge. Obviously, not all are equally enthusiastic and is perceived here and there a little ‘healthy’ Green wash “. However, although there is still long way to go and although many of these products so innovative and environmentally sound have not yet a market, I I am a stubborn optimist , trend “and they all lived happily ever after “, so I think it’s really important that the challenge of climate change in the largest industrial and technological fair in the world is so present, a few days after the Paris signing in New York.
of course, if I think of the way the Italian political, representative bodies of the Italian industrial world and the media speak and act on these issues, I pass immediately a good mood. Of course, the talk of Renzi in New York in his funny English had its own because, with the image of the children and grandchildren to keep watch on the signatories, the solemn declarations of renewables to 50% and insurance that the events of the referendum on the drills would not put environmental issues in the corner, it seemed almost real; and also the Minister Galletti has launched moved in Italian leadership commitments in the fight against global warming.
But all this sounds really fake and surface . Because in Italy, the contrast between the environment, health and industry does exist; It is a major obstacle that is in the heads of our own rulers and opinion-makers that there is a disadvantage and delaying, despite the efforts of a part of the productive sector that instead he understood very well where is the future, but it has little influence in Confindustria and politics . It is no coincidence that the government has preferred throw to the wind 300 million euro , instead of doing some borer pay the cost of having to dismantle the systems that were supposed to stop working at the end of the concessions.
And there is also a ghost who wanders in Italy making it complicated a positive dialogue as it is easy to do here in Germany. It is’ the dreaded “ideological environmentalism” capable of blocking useful infrastructure, impair employment and jobs and determined to bring us back to the age of stone. It has spoken often President Renz the during the referendum campaign on drills , has done it again in New York ; unlike other countries, talk about climate, the environment does not seem (still) useful to gather consensus, indeed. So be environmentalists in Italy is definitely out of fashion, especially in politics.
Amazing, no? Especially the dangers in a country of many environmental disasters , which owns many years the of EU infringement proceedings records , and who has to pay millions in fines dealt with supreme indifference and where as a an extremist environmentalism seem very minor compared to that of the lobbies fossils and a cultural approach that does not know and does not want to distinguish between economic activities, investments, infrastructure that make us less dependent on fossil and less wasteful of resources , compared to those who leave us anchored to the old and losing idea of an industry that to be such must necessarily polluting .
This real brainwashed served up with plenty in recent years by compliant media and ignorant and politics indifferent and / or linked to a debate shortness of breath , and poor quality, has very practical effects that threaten to make the Paris signing an act totally unrealistic for Italy. In our country there is a public debate for years on industrial and energy strategy that is based on a vision of the future and not on litigation or media battles between “honest and rational” proponents of an old industry and a vast social and its associated front that look like one armed against each other.
‘s lack of transparency and a real will mediation and involvement of the public leads to the radicalization of the conflict , to years of grueling battles willing citizens who lose hand hand-trust laws and procedures, and it also happens that useful projects, but imposed or unexplained or poorly organized come to naught. Choices good or bad are almost random or the result of specific interests, and they are always discontinuous and revocable, see the mess of renewable and sudden passion for our own oil and gas. I really think it’s really important to organize to reverse this situation, caused by a mixture of sloppiness, lack of future strategy and fossils friendships: even without diluting the positive heritage of the millions of people who voted YES in the referendum on the augers.
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