That kind of news should go on first page on all newspapers and be covered on television shows, if in Italy there was some sort of free journalism. The news is that there are several research now that demonstrate beyond any doubt that the smoke of incinerators quadruples the cancer incidence in populations living near these plants.
This news was just a short article on La Repubblica weekly magazine, and zero coverage in any other media. It would probably fall silent if Jacopo Fo had not resumed it on his website calling on everyone to do the same.
In truth, similar research in the scientific world have been known for a long time, but Italy does not seem good to spread them because otherwise the governments of left and right couldn't make people accept the waste to energy incinerators, which are the same as normal incinerators just having a name much more pretty and producing a minimum amount of energy. The alternative solution to the poisoning of citizens would be called molecular dissociation and recycling, but given that there are large companies such as Impregilo that with the construction of incinerators gain a sea of money, why the state should put the lives of citizens before the money of friends of friends?
And indeed we have witnessed to a great pomp opening of Acerra incinerator, which will eliminate only a small part of the waste from Campania and still does not work at full capacity (and in fact the waste is deposited in landfills increasingly full and militarized) and all media have carefully avoided to give voice to the protest of local citizens.
But they were all there on stage, the Prime Minister Berlusconi and the President of the Republic, without batting an eyelid.
After all who cares if 1 on 4 of the residents of Acerra will die of cancer in comparison with the money that Impregilo will make.
The truth is that incinerators aren't made near the villa of Arcore or Villa Certosa, or in city centers. They are in the suburbs and small towns where the common people live. Which as we know, for politics and the economy worth nothing.
Francesco Defferrari
But they were all there on stage, the Prime Minister Berlusconi and the President of the Republic, without batting an eyelid.
After all who cares if 1 on 4 of the residents of Acerra will die of cancer in comparison with the money that Impregilo will make.
The truth is that incinerators aren't made near the villa of Arcore or Villa Certosa, or in city centers. They are in the suburbs and small towns where the common people live. Which as we know, for politics and the economy worth nothing.
Francesco Defferrari
Zero waste Campania, movement in defense of health and environment
{sharethis}
Comments