“Forbidden to breathe”, a large anti-smog demonstration in Milan on Saturday

On Saturday in Milan more than forty acronyms will take to the streets - including civic committees, associations and environmentalist movements - to protest against the indifference of the institutions to the serious problem of pollution, which in recent weeks has recorded very high values ​​especially in Milan and in the Po Valley

MILAN – Milan's anti-smog committees take to the streets to address the air emergency.Next Saturday, March 2, from 3 pm, representatives of over forty acronyms, committee networks and individual civic committees, environmental associations and movements, political groups "concerned - reads a note - about the very bad air quality which shows no signs of improving."The title of the event is “Forbidden to breathe!”.Among the promoters Movimento Beni Comuni, the Antismog Parents association and Rete Ambiente Lombardia with the collaboration of the "Let's make the appeal" movement.In the square with the committees Vittorio Agnoletto of Democratic Medicine and Paolo Crosignani of ISDE, Association of Doctors for the Environment.

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In the event - advertised on Facebook - the organizers explain the meaning of the initiative as follows:“In the months of January and February 2024, the excesses of fine dust in Milan and throughout the Region continued for several weeks and, despite the danger of these events, national and local institutions have not taken any incisive measures in this regard.Without food and water we can survive for several days, but Without air we can last a maximum of 4 minutes.Yet, while food and water are now legal, air is still officially outlawed in Italy, particularly in Lombardy and even more so in Milan.And so every day we live a paradox:if brown water comes out of the tap we are alarmed, if the mozzarella turns blue we report it, but if the air makes us cough and get sick... We resign ourselves.But we don't want to give up. A drastic change of direction is needed which starts from an awareness of the now lethal climate and environmental crisis with decisive interventions to protect people's health".

The promoters of the event recall the study carried out by the Epidemiological Unit of the ATS Milan which would certify in 3 thousand (25% of total deaths) the annual deaths in Milan resulting from pollutants from vehicular traffic.Among other things, the study notes the highest incidence of deaths in the busiest - and therefore economically less attractive - areas of the city's outskirts.“To aggravate the concern” there is also the news from a few days ago of the 10 year exemption granted by the European Union to Italy to comply with the directive on air quality in the Po Valley, in response to the request of the Meloni government.