#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update- (en) Italy, FDCA: Il Cantiere anno 2022 n. 8 - The ecological transition is canceled by the war - Ignazio Leone (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The far-sighted strategy of the government of the "best" provides for the

identification of other gas suppliers, the maximization of the derisory local
production, new drilling in the Adriatic Sea, the possibility of using coal. ----
In our previous article (1) we denounced the ecological transition policies
carried out by the European Union, which reached their lowest point with the
document on taxonomy adopted by the European Commission. ---- In this document,
two energy sources were classified as sustainable, such as nuclear energy and
natural gas, on whose sustainability we can lay various layers of pitiful veils.
But this ecological transition strategy, which sees the use of natural gas as one
of its pillars, seems to have found an obstacle not so much in mass mobilization,
and in the awareness of the unavoidable replacement of an unsustainable political
and socio-economic model with another. based on a completely different paradigm,
in which the search for environmental sustainability is married with the aim of
responding to the needs of all human beings, not aimed at exclusively
guaranteeing profits for a few, but from something even more monstrous and
irrational for any human being, yet frequently used by the ruling classes to
settle geopolitical disputes and impose new economic balances: war. Specifically,
the one that took shape in the Ukrainian plains, invaded by the army of the
Russian Federation.
The criminal military action launched by the Russian army in Ukraine, without
prejudice to the non-negligible responsibilities of the Western governments and
NATO, immediately activated a process, still far from materializing, of
detachment from Russian gas supplies, of Italy is one of the main consumers,
given that these supplies account for about 40% of national gas consumption.
The Draghian strategy to replace the large share of Russian gas is entirely
centered, at least in the short term, on fossil fuels, definitely marking a
further step back from the objectives of decarbonisation: the long-term strategy
of the government of the "best" foresees in fact, in the first instance, the
identification of other gas suppliers and the maximization of our derisory
production, with the possibility of eventually resorting to coal!
Just in these days, some top representatives of the Italian government, including
Prime Minister Draghi, together with ENI CEO Claudio De Scalzi, went to Algeria
to agree on the doubling of the gas supply of the North African country to Italy.
  Di Maio himself informs us, on the pages of the Confindu stria newspaper, (2)
that he had already started this tour in search of gas for a month and a half,
touching some countries that have nothing to envy to Putin's Russia in terms of
contempt for civil and political rights: Qatar and Azerbaijan.
Another candidate to replace Russian gas, with even more dramatic implications
for the climate, is US-branded liquefied natural gas (LNG) (which speaks volumes
about what lies behind the Ukrainian conflict): it is natural gas. which is
cooled to about 160 ° C to be transported by suitably refrigerated ships and
returned to the gaseous state inside the regasifiers, once it reaches the port of
destination.
Obviously, this whole series of complex operations involves a greater energy
consumption compared to distribution through pipelines, which according to some
estimates reported (3) would lead to LNG having a climate-changing impact close
to that of coal.
What's more, the United States is able to dispose of large quantities of
exportable gas thanks to fracking, a technique for extracting hydrocarbons
through the fracturing of certain types of rocks, called schistose, induced by
the high pressure injection of a mixture of water and chemical products: as
already known, this is a highly contested technique from an environmental point
of view, in particular due to the risks of contamination of deep aquifers and the
potential seismic effects.
At the end of this disheartening picture, it is needless to say that invariably
abounds, in all the main means of communication, of those who enthusiastically
support the return to nuclear power.
It is truly astounding that there is not even a timid attempt to use this
dramatic contingency of the war in Ukraine to detach itself definitively and
quickly not from Russian gas, but from fossil fuels, moreover at a time when the
Intergovernment mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its report at the end
of February, announces "the grimest warning" (4) in relation to the effects of
global warming.
According to this report, the current trends in greenhouse gas emissions would
put global temperatures to exceed the 1.5 ° C increase compared to pre-industrial
levels, considered as a safety threshold, leading to the melting of ice sheets
and ice sheets. glaciers and a consequent series of dramatic ripple effects,
including numerous fires and the thawing of perma frost, with further release of
greenhouse gases.
Ultimately it would trigger a sort of vicious circle with devastating consequences.
Yet even these gloomy prospects do not seem to give the necessary change to the
energy policies of governments, which is why we will never tire of repeating that
in addition to the emancipation of male and female workers, the salvation of the
planet will also be the work of workers. trici themselves.

Note:
1) the SHIPYARD n 6 March 2022 "Of greenwashing and taxonomy. A new ecological
imperialism is expected
2)
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cr isienergeticadraghimissionead
algerisubstitireterzogasrusso AElb05QB
3) https://valori.it/gasnaturale liquefattocontrotransizione ecological /
4) https://www.theguardian.com/envir onment / 2022 / feb / 28 / ipccissues
bleakestwarningyetimpacts climatebreakdown
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