Pietro Orsatti

Editorial on Earth
Pietro Orsatti

They will be there. Despite the promises, despite the lukewarm commitments made at the G8 summit of L'Aquila. The "super" of the Earth, from Obama to Sarkozy, Merkel to the Brown, the FAO World Food Summit, which begins tomorrow, will not. Speaking of hunger, there will be only the hungry and the alleged "bad", the Qaddafi and Chavez, the Iranians and Koreans and so on. It's been less than two years after the large "grain crisis", from over two hundred thousand died of starvation in a few months that added to the already terrifying world's annual average. Two years after the riots in many countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Bread. It turned out, immediately, that the crisis was artificial, caused by financial speculation on the price of cereals, epicenter Chicago. Two hundred thousand deaths, riots, repression, conflict, and some few country destabilized by a handful of unscrupulous brokers. Not enough food and environmental crises caused by climate change (now UN, FAO, WFP and UNDP have linked the two issues closely without fear of being denied), it was not enough conflict and the desertification of whole areas of the planet to get the new gold Green, biofuels produced from crops intensive and destructive palm, rapeseed, sugar cane was not enough, the economic crisis and financial opened a long period of global recession. There was only the speculators of the Stock Exchange. The last of the FAO Food Summit ended with a stalemate, a statement is not binding on member countries, generic, which of course remained only on paper. Today we are again to Rome to rank reduced without the presence of those that count. And the UN agency was so aware that it appeals not to the leaders of rich nations, but to the citizens. Commitment asked every single citizen of the planet. To sign a petition to the great of the earth to commit themselves to finance an extraordinary program against hunger. Need, says the FAO, 44 billion dollars of development aid each year to address the food emergency, which affects roughly one fifth of world population. And concrete actions of development and equity and clear choices on 'Environment and climate change. And yet, the UN and FAO have come to launch it like any NGO and not as international agencies, a hunger strike. 24 hours. A strike which was joined also the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Only advertising, just a symbolic act, cheap demagoguery? Perhaps, but the signal is clear. Hunger is a problem of all and should be imposed on the agendas of various governments. This was the message on the eve of the summit in Rome, hoping that some "bad" or some gaffeur us not to distract attention from the topic of the day: the fight against world hunger.

Towards the G8 - Lecce door for a few protesters
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"There are growing signs of stabilization in our economy." All. Signals. The G7 (with tail G8) Economic Ministers ended yesterday in a non-liquid Lecce agreement, particularly between the U.S. and Germany on the testing to banks, and clings to the term 'signal' for not declaring bankruptcy. Our Minister Tremonti, the opening is described as "optimistic." His optimism, however, seems to have stalled in the heat of this early summer and Puglia on toughening positions between Berlin and Washington. The delegation of the U.S. Treasury, in fact, it's interesting that in Europe to take stress tests on banks along the lines of those conducted in the U.S., releasing the results. The American position is located in a riverside Sarkozy but Berlin is, and remains, to the contrary. The "Lecce framework" is "not a failure but a success, moving, off balance, Tremonti. In reality they are signs, already contained in the Global standard, to regulate commerce international and little more. The only novelty is the name change. ... Continue reading

Massimo Scalia: "In the U.S. Marchione is attention and incentives in Italy's'
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A country where environment and economy are back to being two separate worlds and incommunicable. This is the 'Italy of Berlusconi, who seems to ignore the true extent of the economic crisis and the need for global focus to efficiency and innovation to get out of the bottleneck created by the financial collapse, as they are trying to do most of the countries West. "After the lukewarm attitudes of government Romano Prodi, the majority of today seems to want to turn back the clock - says Massimo Scalia, historical Italian leader of environmentalism and a teacher at Rome's Sapienza -. While Obama, and not only him, pointing agreement in negotiations on the cost of energy, because energy is central to the production needs and environmental concerns, Berlusconi appears to underestimate the economic opportunities that would open up too. "Continue reading ...

A central nuclear in the south of France

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This time, Berlusconi's announcement on the four plants is to be taken seriously. The obstacles to the government there. Money, locations, and Article 117 of the Constitution, on which the League could also pull back

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Four brand new nuclear power plants are not to be a joke. The government seems to think Berlusconi, for once, in the long term. There are at least 12-15 years (some even talk of 20) needed to get to the commissioning of the four plants. Continue reading ...

It seems to go back 30 years. When Aeneas was still called the Nuclear CNEN and the utopia of modernity. Then came the injury and the major thrust of a formidable anti-nuclear movements, broad and inclusive, who won a refrendum deleting the atom to matriciana. Today Berlusconi raises, with the help of Sarkozy, the nuclearedi third generation. We spoke with the physicist and former lawmaker, Massimo Scalia. Continue reading ...