ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Roger Scruton who is the ultimate contemporary conservative philosopher said that ecology is the quintessence of the conservative cause. It means that another environmentalism is possible that it is not what we have seen that it is a little surrogate of socialism and that in Europe then it has declined through the formula of the green deal”. This was said by the Euro MP of Brothers of Italy, Nicola Procaccini, during the presentation of his book “The Ecology of Conservatives. The return to the sacred nature”, published by Giubilei Regnani with the preface of the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni.
“The conservative ecology is different, it has greater respect for the sacred, greater respect for freedom and therefore also of the economy as a precondition for environmental defense – added Procaccini -. It is more consistent, I allow myself to say it, than the environmentalism we have known and so it is time to tell it because it is a mission not only Italian, it is a western mission that concerns a little the conservatives of all the West, it is time to put it black on white and through this book, I do this.”.
Through a historical and cultural journey, the author tells the genesis, the rise and contradictions of modern political environment. From “happy decline” to climate change, from overcoming natural limits to European Green Deal. The book gradually builds an alternative proposal. Conservative ecology is described as a balance between apparently opposite elements: economic development and environmental protection, innovation and tradition, individual freedom and collective responsibility. In this vision, the human being is not seen as an enemy of nature, but as its custodian, called to take care of it with awareness and sense of the limit, without giving indiscriminate dominion or a vision that excludes it or blames it.
Ample space is dedicated to the European context and to the debate on Green Deal, interpreted as the symbol of an approach that, although born of shared objectives, would take dogmatic traits and produce counterproductive effects on the economic and social level. The author highlights the risks of an ecological transition not sufficiently attentive to the falls on industry, work and sovereignty of nations, instead proposing a more gradual, pragmatic and compatible model with the reality of productive systems.
“I believe that Nicola Procaccini wanted to express, in this text, a clear position of protection of the environment from the perspective of us conservatives”, the words of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Francesco Lollobrigida. “The defense of what is our home, the planet, but through a systematic correlation that we have set from the beginning of our policies, which takes into account two necessary factors: one is environmental sustainability, related to economic sustainability that guarantees social equity, that is the possibility of thinking about rights, the environment, having the possibility of surviving.” For Minister Lollobrigida “this has the duty to make man who on the basis of scientific data can and must intervene to improve environmental conditions”.
The volume is an invitation “to rediscover conservative ecology, its cultural references, its sense of sacredness and the proposals that spring about life and death, the relationship with animals, land and resources available, energy and technological innovation. A polemical and visionary book, which aims to return to the word ecology its most authentic meaning: the care of our house, without sacrificing freedom”.
MELONI “DA CONSERVATORI DIFESA AMBIENTE SENZA IDEOLOGISMI”
“Promote and make known the conservative vision of the environment, to make it increasingly a protagonist of the debate. Because the battle for the environment is not neutral: it is a cultural battle and, like all cultural battles, requires vision, commitment, pragmatism.” This is what the President of the Council writes, Giorgia Meloni, in the preface of the book of the MEP of Fdi, Nicola Procaccini, “The Ecology of Conservatives”.
“There is no more convinced ecologist than a conservative – Meloni observes – because the word ‘ecology’ comes from that Greek oikos, meaning ‘house’. It is the reason why, for the conservatives of every latitude, the house is synonymous with Patria, is the place that guards the family, the pillar on which the common destiny that binds us is based”.
The premier emphasizes: “The conservatives protect Europe’s classical and Christian roots, defend life, believe in the family as the fundamental core of society, want to build a Europe based on the freedom and sovereignty of nations, protect the work and the real economy, defend the environment without ideology. Because it is not possible to protect the environment without the work responsible for man.”.
Meloni recalls “the political and cultural proposal supported by the Italian conservatives, an ecology that arises from respect and awareness that the human being is not the master of Creation, but its custodian. That holds together development and protection, innovation and tradition, freedom and responsibility. That does not claim to rewrite man and nature according to abstract patterns. That does not impose unnecessary sacrifices, but promotes conscious choices. And that is not based on fear, but on common sense and reality.”.
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