The extreme heat of this summer has changed my life. To say it is not an average pensioner of an average Italian bench that speaks of the sketch memory of the seasons that are no longer there. To say it is an important American intellectual, the writer Jonathan Safran Foer who has been dealing with environmental issues for some time and we have seen in Italy recently for the book We can save the world before dinner.
In Paris, where it was for work this summer, the great heat that hit the whole Old Continent struck the writer shocking him. Physically and philosophically or even in reverse order. In short, climate change that becomes a structural change of Homo sapiens, not a partial crisis to be resolved with a greater increase in air conditioning.
Of course there is the issue of energy and social and economic security, but it seems to me that this seeming banal discovery of the writer reveals more. After so many years, millions, the great and terrible Homo above devastated the planet in which he lived wonderfully. It will not be just the fault of Homo but surely there is his hand. Development, pollution, wrong standards, wrong visions, laziness of politics and not only in the Western world.
It has been seen in the various international forums that there is no agreement between too many countries. Needless to make rules in the EU if then China does not respect them… just to make an example. The climate has no administrative barriers, it takes place by its nature on a planetary scale.
And then here I am a spectator of the modern world who read an American writer to whom the heat changed its life but changed it to me that in Milan I live a tropical September. The body and mind are tired of this climate Africa that has upset our continental habits.
And I read, a contemporary viewer, that the wave of mud and water that devastated Nepal and Tibet at the end of August would be due to an immense glacier that detached itself from the Himalayas chain. As with Hormuz we realized that in our world everything is all about, those dead and wounded so far are actually so close.
The world only saves everyone together, says Safran Foer, but to do so before dinner we must hurry because the Apocalypse is already sitting at the table.
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