From an environmental point of view, 2023 began with the action of the activists
of the Last Generation, the ecological group that has stood out the most inrecent months. At 7.50 am on 2 January, the Senate building in Rome was daubedwith orange paint by the group calling for the abandonment of fossil fuelsbecause, as the note subsequently released states, "the government and thepolitical class continue to finance and encourage a development model thataccelerates the eco-climatic collapse and condemn their own fellow citizens tosuffering and death". Although it was washable paint, which disappeared in a fewminutes, the predictable and ridiculous outrage of all parties was accompanied bythe equally predictable and ridiculous repressive action. There are currently twomost serious cases: for an activist, the Pavia police station has asked forspecial surveillance, assuming it was Matteo Messina Denaro, while three otheractivists are on trial for private violence, damage and possession of weapons inpublic.A few days later in the village of Lützerath, in western Germany, hundreds ofenvironmentalists from all over Europe (also from Italy) tried with their ownbodies to prevent the demolition of the village which, according to theintentions of the German multinational RWE, is preparatory to the extension ofwhat is already today one of the largest coal mines in Europe. The two episodestestify, as largely predictable and as we had long hoped for in our small way,the radicalization of the new environmentalist galaxy, which ranges from Fridaysfor Future to Extinction Rebellion and Ultima Generazione, with the hope thatothers will soon be able to structure or appear on the horizon. The newmovements, united by their attention to the climate crisis which in theirinterpretation is the most serious emergency to face, not only have theypersonally tested the stellar distance between their requests and the interestsrepresented by the parties but have accomplished in the last year and half anotable path made of study and contaminations.A ferment that bodes well, provided you don't give in to the usual sirens offirefighters. Like those agitated in recent days by the newspaper Domani,directed by the former Bocconian Stefano Feltri and financed by the formerpublisher of the Republic Carlo De Benedetti. And what is the easiest and mostattractive temptation that can be offered to an incandescent and (perhaps)pre-revolutionary movement? But of course, the elections! And in fact just inJanuary Domani came out into the open, through a series of editorials andarticles, making explicit an appeal that in recent months he had actuallyprepared through increasingly heartfelt invitations: we need a newenvironmentalist party! Already on 1 December last Ferdinando Cotugno, probablyat this moment the most followed environmental journalist in Italy, wrote thatthe "climate movements are tired of waiting for the attention of the DemocraticParty in its eternal congress or the growth of the Greens, after Septemberelections the conversation on the possibility of creating a new political entityis fully underway". Even if the new party is currently more in Cotugno's mindthan in the facts, two other events then gave a hand to this construction. On theone hand, the Italian Greens, who arrived in parliament by the skin of theirteeth, tried to intercept the new climatic demands without however ever arousinggreat appreciation and in recent months, entangled in the story of the deputySoumahoro, have already shown the younger ones that they are equal to otherparties. On the other hand, in Germany, the Greens, who are in government therein one of the typical Teutonic coalitions, immediately disregarded theirelectoral promises, giving way to the return of coal, the maintenance of nuclearpower plants and the replacement of Russian gas with regasifiers. Faced with thisunreliability, the refrain is always the same: you are young and beautiful, youare right, make your case count in this democracy which may not be the mostbeautiful in the world but it is the only possible alternative, start from themunicipalities, where you will be able to build a civic alliance and make yourexperiences and sensitivities available.Instead of sowing conflict, Tomorrow calls on the climate movements to sowdefeat. Instead, much more weighted analyzes would need to be launched, basedabove all on the study of the "old" environmentalism, which has been completelyharmless for some time and which has become wrapped up in a bland associationismthat limits itself to marrying individual campaigns without being able to affectcollectively nor, much less , almost never win a fight. On the contrary, becomingthe bearer of industrial interests and a slave to state prebends.It would be useful to be able to bring back to the territories the contextanalyzes that climate movements have managed to elaborate, in a comparison thatis really an exchange, putting aside the hegemonic desires and the old languagesthat tire the new generations. It would be necessary to broaden a radicalizationwhich, albeit still timid, is one of the last hopes to cling to in order totackle enormously complex cases, to limit ourselves to Sicily, such as theArgo-Cassiopea gas pipeline in Gela or the Priolo refinery or the bridge over thestrait over which the new climate movements have said little or nothing. It wouldhelp to get out of the deception of environmental protection seen solely as adefense of the existing, because ecological conservatism is one of the twomatrices, together with industrial production, on which the current right ingovernment is based, albeit in a contradictory way. In other words, it isnecessary to develop an idea of the world that makes environmental issues feeldesirable, going beyond apocalyptic language, so that the environment is notperceived only as a sacrifice to be faced or to be delegated to the good will ofindividuals. Other than an environmentalist party, an environmentalist revolutionis needed here.Andrea Turcohttps://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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