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Devastazioni: terre agricole divorate dal cemento. In 20 anni sparito il 15% delle campagne.

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Cementificato il 15% delle campagne in 20 anni

In appena vent’anni il 15% delle campagne è stato abbandonato o cementificato: ciò significa un territorio grande come la Lombardia. È allarme e gli agricoltori denunciano: «Anche questo contribuisce ai cambiamenti climatici».

Ogni giorno sparisce – precisa la Coldiretti – terra agricola per un equivalente di circa 400 campi da calcio (288 ettari) e quella disponibile non si riesce piu’ ad assorbire adeguatamente la pioggia perché siamo di fronte ai drammatici effetti dei cambiamenti climatici che si sono manifestati quest’anno con il moltiplicarsi di eventi estremi, sfasamenti stagionali e precipitazioni brevi ma intense e il repentino passaggio dal sereno al maltempo con vere e proprie bombe d’acqua. Il risultato è che in Italia – sottolinea la Coldiretti – oltre 7 milioni di cittadini si trovano in zone esposte al pericolo di frane e alluvioni che riguardano ben l’88 per cento dei comuni sull’intero territorio nazionale.

Per proteggere il territorio ed i cittadini che vi vivono l’Italia – conclude la Coldiretti – deve difendere il proprio patrimonio agricolo e la propria disponibilità di terra fertile dalla cementificazione nelle città e dall’abbandono nelle aree marginali con un adeguato riconoscimento dell’attività agricola che ha visto chiudere 1,5 milioni di aziende negli ultimi venti anni.

QUI la petizione promossa da Daniele Uboldi, collaboratore di Decrescita Felice Social Network: “Fermiamo il consumo di suolo. Un cambio planetario di paradigma: di meno e meglio”.

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Fonte: il Cambiamento

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"Rain man" by Domagoj Taborski

“Rain man” by Domagoj Taborski

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Ci sono delle persone che devono sempre andare da qualche parte.
“Andiamo al cinema!” “Andiamo in barca!” “Andiamo a scopare!”
Andate a cagare tutti quanti, dico sempre io, lasciatemi in pace qui.

(Charles Bukowski – “Una pioggia di donne”)

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Wikileaks: l’NSA e i testi originali delle intercettazioni (eng) a Silvio Berlusconi

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NSA Targets World Leaders for US Geopolitical Interests: Italy

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Italy Would Help Israel Mend Relations With U.S.

Date 2010
Classification TOP SECRET//COMINT//ORCON/REL TO USA, FVEY
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WikiLeaks Synopsis
Intercepted communication between Italian PM Berlusconi and Israeli PM Netanyahu show that Berlusconi promised to assist helping Israel in mending damaged relationship with the U.S.

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Original NSA text:

Italy Would Help Israel Mend Relations With U.S. (TS//SI//OC/REL TO USA, FVEY)

(TS//SI//OC/REL TO USA, FVEY) Israel has reached out to Europe, including Italy, for help in smoothing out the current rift in its relations with the United States, according to Italian diplomatic reporting of 13 March. Speaking with Italian Prime Minister (PM) Silvio Berlusconi, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu insisted that the trigger for the dispute–Israel’s decision to build 1,600 homes in contested East Jerusalem–was totally in keeping with national policy dating back to the administration of Golda Meir, and blamed this mishandling on a government official with poor political sensitivity. The objective now, Netanyahu said, is to keep the Palestinians from using this issue as a pretext to block a resumption of talks or to advance unrealistic claims that could risk sinking the peace negotiations altogether. Continuing, he asserted that the tension has only been heightened by the absence of direct contact between himself and the U.S. President. In response, Berlusconi promised to put Italy at Israel’s disposal in helping mend the latter’s ties with Washington. Other Israeli officials, meanwhile, believed that this tiff goes far beyond merely the question of the construction plans, marking instead the lowest point in U.S.-Israeli relations in memory.

SCS, Unconventional

Italian leadership

3/79/37-10, 161635Z; 3/OO/506688-10, 171833Z

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European Leaders Hold Berlusconi Accountable on Italian Financial Situation

Date 2011
Classification TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN
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WikiLeaks Synopsis
Intercepted communication of Berlusconi’s personal advisor on international relations, Valentino Valentini, describes concerns on the Italian financial crisis expressed by French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel to the Italian Prime Minister, and show that they pressured Berlusconi to take action.

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Original NSA text:

European Leaders Hold Berlusconi Accountable on Italian Financial Situation (TS//SI//NF)

(TS//SI//NF) A 22 October meeting attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Italian Prime Minister (PM) Silvio Berlusconi was later described by the Italian’s personal adviser on international relations, Valentino Valentini, as tense and very harsh toward the Rome government. Merkel and Sarkozy, evidently brooking no excuses with respect to Italy’s current predicament, pressured the PM to announce strong, concrete palliatives and then to implement them in order to show that his government is serious about its debt problem. Sarkozy was said to have told Berlusconi that while the latter’s claims about the solidity of the Italian banking system may be true in theory, financial institutions there could soon “pop” like the cork in a champagne bottle, that “words are no longer enough,” and that Berlusconi must now “make decisions.” Also on the 24th, Valentini indicated that EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy had urged Italy to undertake policies aimed at reducing the impression within the EU that the country is weighed down with an enormous debt at a moment in time when it also is struggling with low productivity and showing little dynamism. In Van Rompuy’s opinion, Spain is the model that Italy should now be seeking to emulate.

Unconventional

Italian leadership

Z-3/OO/550156-11, 251344Z

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