TERRITORIES Manifesto January 6 06/02/2011
land use, LEGISLATION TO STOP
Piero Bevilacqua
There are at least two good reasons to support the proposal by Carlo Petrini (Republic of 1/18/2011) in consonance with what was already writing Berdini Paul (the poster 11/21/2010) in which the president of Slow Food calls for a moratorium in land consumption in Italy. The first concerns the nature of this phenomenon. The destruction of the area, the concreting of the agricultural land is almost irreversible. Once covered with asphalt or articles that territory will be lost to agriculture and the environment for who knows how many generations. The game is played in the territory has a width that transcends our temporal life. Petrini well explains the deep reasons of this defense. The manifesto of 28/11/2010 ample space devoted to the theme of 'new environmentalism' introduced by Asor and Viale. But we must return to this subject.
What should be said clearly, on a purely economic, is an unstoppable trend that manufacturing industry is to produce goods with less and less value. The continuing increase in productivity, the entry on stage on the global market in China and Asia, Brazil, soon in India, are already leading to the reduction of the phenomenon of scarcity that gives value to the goods. The clothes that are also a few stalls on € testify to this fact already in place. The fate of manufacturing will be to pursue an innovation, product uniqueness in a sea of \u200b\u200bstandardized goods with less and less value.
For this reason, in Italy, we should look to our heritage as a land destined to see its value grow exponentially, in our age will increasingly take refuge in services and industrial goods can not be reproduced. The value of the land from us is already high, in some cases it is only for natural reasons, historical and aesthetic, but will soon become invaluable because of global demand that will request it. Millions of new rich Russians, Chinese, Brazilians, etc.. will want to soon own a villa on Langhe, in the Val d'Orcia, in the Cinque Terre, Lake Como, near the temples of Paestum and Agrigento, to spend a week or a year to enjoy a golden age. But it will also be able to enjoy our cheese, the taste of our fruit, for the excellence of our wines, the variety of our cuisine. We all ask what is the fruit of our agricultural land, what we continue to destroy for food development. It is therefore clear that we face a serious threat, but also a great opportunity. Our soil is becoming increasingly valuable and necessary to think of collective forms of accommodation for those who do domanda.minaccia, but also a great opportunity. The our soil is becoming increasingly valuable and necessary to think of collective forms of accommodation for those who do domanda.minaccia, but also a great opportunity. Our soil is becoming increasingly valuable and necessary to think of collective forms of accommodation for those who do domanda.minaccia, but also a great opportunity. Our soil is becoming increasingly valuable and necessary to think of collective forms of accommodation for those who so requests. But we must find ways
concerted democratic decision of its use - not just locally - to respond to such a large and high pressure.
The second reason to support the proposed mode of the Petrini regards to politics today. Be necessary to return, but first let us ask ourselves: what they can do so many organizations today in the territories of our country, often the stars of the experiences of real participatory democracy at the municipal level? How to overcome the dramatic separation between the extraordinary, though broken and dispersed, social conflict and its representation and voice in the heart of the state? It is therefore necessary to think of tools that specifically target of political practice, in which the company will enter directly in the institutions, aiming to transform the needs and reasons for the popular struggles in general laws. Add the wide social and left scattered in the territories, or divided into various institutions, the ability to walk the final stretch of the political conflict: ie the ability to require government decisions.
mobilization for public water, for example, goes in that direction. We must remember that our Constitution provides for the popular law: a tool that experts should help us to use even for the salvation of our land, the common good par excellence. It is true that the valley will be found then the bottleneck of a Parliament indifferent or openly hostile. But we must not forget that the struggles that have aimed to unify on the forces, conflicts and hopes to bring together under a common framework. And at the same time open up between the masses and the political elite of government and net widening gap unsustainable in the long run.
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