Forty-four intellectuals in rows of six with a remainder of two sing in chorus to public opinion. Like the cats in the Zecchino d’oro song, they have united firmly to organize a meeting (likely a webinar), clarify the situation, and launch a rhetorical provocation: «Would you be willing to burn the Mona Lisa and Sardinia to obtain energy?».
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On the first point, it might not be impolite to ask the cousins across the Alps, who are somewhat touchy on the subject, and on the second, the Sardinians who do not feel inferior to anyone on the continent, where, moreover, other Italians from other regions might also have something to say.
LANDSCAPE VERSUS ENVIRONMENT
In the unavailability of Leonardo’s masterpiece and a predictable referendum on the island of the four Moors blindfolded, the leaders of WWF, Legambiente, and Greenpeace called into question (Luciano Di Tizio, Stefano Ciafani, and Chiara Campione), even within their statutory framework, trim the utopian manifesto-appeal and cut tails and mustaches aligned in rows of six with a remainder of two: «Opposing renewable energy and landscape protection is a mistake». Besides being yet another benchmark taken from the deck of chimeras, it makes a media boom but is not a bomb, not even of wisdom or common sense.
It is obvious that if the landscape is proposed as something intangible and the climate trend will not stop by itself or by scientific human intervention, inaction on renewables and alternative energies will logically lead to the compromise of everything one dogmatically wants to protect. Wind turbines disturb the harmony of creation, nuclear power irritates and frightens, solar panels are disgusting, hydroelectric power gives a shock of repulsion, and fossil fuels are pure horror, but only here.
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ASK CHINA
In China, from which we buy everything and more, and recently even cars and every type of battery to power ecological electric vehicles, or in India, just to talk about large numbers, the Mona Lisa or Sardinia are certainly not at the top of their minds. There, intellectuals do not sign manifestos against wild industrialization, pollution, or defaced landscapes, neither because they want to nor because they can: they have pressed the accelerator on technological and economic growth, and if they often and willingly lose control, it is the problem of the small Westerners, those always so attentive even to gases emitted into the atmosphere for natural causes by our cows, while near the Ganges they venerate them.
In the manifesto of the 44, environmental associations are urged to take a stand against wind and photovoltaic energy, and they respond that they can consider themselves equally surprised «to see so much closure towards these energy sources, moreover without indicating a credible alternative» and also «not to see the collective responsibility to build for future generations a safe, democratic, accessible, sustainable, and compatible model with the protection of territories».
AND WITHOUT FUEL?
Science’s answers, yesterday as today, often do not please. This country placed a reinforced concrete referendum cap on nuclear power, losing decades and meanwhile acquiring energy produced by plants just beyond the border. Wind turbines have not overcome the aesthetic prejudices of the Bel Paese, solar panels give chills, the atom is split only for distinctions on safety, long times, and mental refusal, while products derived from extinct and decomposed dinosaurs continue to be burned. An era in which, it is said, man risks falling back either due to an epochal climate cataclysm or because he will be forced to a leap backward without even the lights with the abhorred oil. And there will not even be ink to sign manifestos on the Mona Lisa and Sardinia. With all due respect to Monna Lisa and also to the late Ivan Graziani who always reflected in music on the value of culture that does not allow touching works of art nor fully enjoying them. It applies to paintings and also to landscapes.
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