transizione ecologica

They are our future, the future of mobility, with a fundamental role for the necessary ecological transition, or "they are madness that has no environmental, economic, social, industrial explanations", as claimed by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini? One thing is certain.Since 2035 it will no longer be possible to purchase new petrol and diesel cars within EU countries.Car manufacturers will have to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of new cars sold by 100%, with the aim of encouraging the transition to the sale of electric cars. Yet the transition to electric cars is encountering a certain resistance, not only in public opinion but also among those who should support and accompany this transition.Always Minister Salvini he said that electric cars "are rubbish from Europe that is giving a huge gift to China". His position is not isolated. In short, even on electric cars the debate has been polarized, especially by those who, in t...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The climate crisis is a fact, as is yours anthropic origin:The relationship of the 2021 IPCC showed that the increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial age, thanks to empirical research and numerical simulations, depends mostly on human activity. Yet still today, in one mixture of ignorance and bad faith, there is no shortage of inroads in public opinion and politics to discredit the efforts of scientists, activists and a part of the ruling class who are pushing for an ecological transition, both from a legislative point of view and from the point of view of electoral consensus.One of the arguments used in Italy and abroad by the conjunction of climate deniers and inactivists is the one according to which the climate transition it would be ridden from the left to impose dirigiste and statist policies, motivated more by hatred for the free market than by science. The sca...

If it is true that Nature does not need man, man certainly needs Nature.Maintaining biodiversity is crucial to our well-being and survival.The free ecosystem services that the environment guarantees us (such as the pollination of plants, the stability of the soil, the refraction of solar radiation by ice, just to name a few) cannot be replaced by artificial plants. Today we are heading towards the sixth mass extinction and man is the main cause:it is the meteorite that is destroying the diversity and abundance of living species and the ecosystems they inhabit.Charles Darwin, noble father of the theory of evolution, was among the first thinkers to accept the reality of extinctions as a fundamental feature of the history of life on Earth, a non-trivial consideration in an era in which creationist and essentialist conceptions of life dominated ( according to which living beings are immutable). Mass extinctions by convention are those in which 75% or more of the planet's living spec...

The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he spoke on the morning of December 2nd at United Nations Climate Change Conference, underway in Dubai (COP28).The Prime Minister claimed Italy's role in the decarbonisation process and in the effort to limit the increase in global temperature to within 1.5 °C.But he did so in the framework of a speech in which he intended to reiterate his approach to climate change and the energy transition:"pragmatic", "free from useless radicalism", "non-ideological". COP28, what happened to the climate crisis? These watchwords are the ones that have always characterized right-wing discourse on climate and the environment.If we evaluated them only for their literal meaning we would not be able to understand why they return so frequently.In fact, taken like this, who wouldn't make them their own?Who would not agree that the fight against global warming, or any other action in any other field, must be pragmatic?Who wouldn't claim n...

Last October 3rd the workers of Magneti Marelli's Crevalcore plant went on strike against the intention, declared by the managers, to close the plant.After the mobilization of both the unions and local and national politicians, the company decided to suspend the closure procedure. Although Magneti Marelli mainly deals with batteries, the Crevalcore plant still works on internal combustion engine components.For this reason, the managers claim, there has been a decline in turnover in recent years which has made the closure of the plant essential. The crisis of Crevalcore's Magneti Marelli, in fact, cannot be seen as an isolated case, but as a failure of our country's strategy in keeping up with electric mobility.This while the rest of the world has decided to take the challenge seriously, even if more for geopolitical rivalries and electoral opportunities. What we talk about in this article:China's leap and America's responseThe USA, Biden and the electric car as a symbol of re...