May 19 2008
The scaring estimation of the cancer in a map
I do not know how to act and what to think anymore.
I want to share everything about my Country.
Yep, Italy has wonderful cities, wonderful landscapes, wonderful art, wonderful history, wonderful food, but I can not avoid to report what I know.
Everything is wonderful here. Everything but the interests of the politics.
I get totally troubled and shocked every time I look for online news which are offered by journalist who still have a conscience, who still spend their working hours hunting and reporting the truth without altering it; they are often in peril because they tell the facts as they really are, without protecting anyone and, on the contrary, telling on everything without filters.
I am very glad that we still have those good journalists here and I am very thankful that there is still someone who is able to do his/her job in the proper way, but I can not do anything to help people if they do not want to open their eyes.
I am sure that Italians are totally asleep and the worst thing is that it seems that they do not want to wake up at all…othrwise they would do something necessarily, I want to believe it!! Do not you?
They do not care about what it is happening in their Country, about what is good and what is not, they probably believe in fairy tales where the good always wins out and the evil is always knocked down.
Unfortunately we do not live in the fairy tales and, if someone does not stop the evil, it tends to increase until influencing everything and everybody.
I am not too much catastrophic, I am not catastrophic enough!
Today I am shocked by a map about the incinerators who are situated in the whole “boot” (and you know Italy is planning to increase their number in a not too far future); together with the areas of their localizations, it is shown a scheme of colours demonstrating the decrement of the estimated life in months due to the anthropogenic fine particles called PM 2,5: it is expressed starting from 1 month with the lighter colour to 36 months with the black one.
Map of the decrement of the estimated life in months
due to the anthropogenic PM 2,5
Looking at the map deeply (and I heartily suggest you to check it HERE using also the zoom), you can first notice that there is no place enlightened with the lighter colour, but even with the immediately subsequent ones; in fact, you can see the warmer colours starting from the middle of the scheme!
Now…do you really think it is conscientious for Italians to watch tv programs where experts suggest to maintain incinerators and even to build new ones, especially if these experts are people such Mr Umberto Veronesi (read also THIS ARTICLE ), who is a doctor, a surgeon and even a politic (now do you understand why he is not against incinerators even if he is a doctor and knows very well the effects of them on our health)?
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ciao…passavo per caso di qui!non so perfettamente l’inglese..quindi non ho ben capito se sei italiana e scrivi un blog in inglese..o vivi in italia ma sei straniera..comuque leggendo questo intervento mi sono posta un po’ di domande.Sono perfettamente d’accordo con te sul fatto che l’italia è tanto bella quanto rovinata e sfruttata da viscida gente come gran parte dei politici…sul fatto degli inceneritori però mi vine spontaneo chiederti..ma se non sei d’accordo sull’utilizzarli…come dovremmo fare??dove vivo abbiamo 3 inceneritori e lacittà è di 110.000 persone e numerose persone si stanno muovendo per farne chiudere almeno uno. il fatto è che non ogni giorno che passa ci riempiamo le città di spazzatura e il problema conituerà ad aumentare e poi a degenerare…
eh…lo sconforto è tanto per questo nostro bel paese!
Ciao zilvia, grazie per essere passata e avere lasciato un commento, sono italiana e scrivo in inglese
ciao!!
Hai capito bene, non sono per niente d’accordo con l’utilizzo degli inceneritori, figuriamoci con l’apertura di nuovi, perchè le persone e gli animali muoiono e l’ambiente si inquina, ci roviniamo con le nostre mani.
Penso che dovremmo prendere spunto da molti Stati esteri per quanto riguarda la spazzatura. Ormai l’immondizia che abbiamo dobbiamo smaltirla in qualche modo, ma da oggi in poi si può cambiare radicalmente modo di vivere, alcune città italiane e moltissime straniere hanno una percentuale di riciclaggio altissima (oltre 80%) ed evitano di produrre con materiali altamente inquinanti, prediligendo quelli più naturali, loro ce la fanno, perchè noi no? Secondo me è l’unico modo per sopravvivere!
Spero che tornerai a passare da qui, mi farebbe molto piacere, se hai un sito o un blog lasciamelo così vengo a trovarti anche io
Translation of my comment for the foreign readers:
Hi zilvia, thanks for your visit and comment, I’m an Italian who writes in English
ciao!!
You understand properly, I don’t agree at all with the use of the incinerators, can’t imagine the opening of new ones, because people and animals die and the environment is polluted, we damage ourselves with our own hands.
I think that we’d learn from several foreign States about trash. By now we must dispose of the garbage which we have, but from now on we can change radically our way of living, some Italian cities and several foreign ones have a very high percentage of recycling (more than 80%) and avoid to produce with highly pollutant materials, opting for the more natural ones, they achieve the result, what can’t we do the same? For me this is the unique way to survive!
I hope you’ll visit me again, I’d be very glad, if you have a website or a blog please let me know the link and I’ll visit you too