An ANUU reflection on what is happening in Italy following the waves of bad weather that have hit many regions in recent days and in particular, the most tragic episode, Liguria.
We write in the aftermath of the very serious events of the Ligurian Levant and Lunigiana, followed after a few days by the mournful events in the city of Genoa, certainly favored by the hundreds of mm of rain that fell in a few hours but, above all and as always, caused at the root by negligence and the lack of interest of the administrators for the territory.
A territory, the national one, which for almost 80% is at a more or less high hydrogeological risk and for which, however, no serious protection measures are adopted: absolute prohibition of construction of buildings and buildings in improper or dangerous sites; removal of obstacles to the flow of water from the banks of rivers and streams; cleaning of the edges of the roads, of the gutters, of the manholes, to facilitate the flow towards the sewers; maintenance of wooded areas with removal of plant material accumulated on the ground; restoration of the naturalness of the banks of watercourses where cemented, just to mention the actions to be taken with the utmost urgency.
Instead, building permits are issued too easily, PRG or PGT are drawn up characterized by lack of rigor and respect for the rural territory, streams and woods are left to themselves with the justification of "naturalness", the number of roadside personnel is reduced to a minimum, the banks of the waterways are rectified and asphalted and, last but not least, unimaginable disgraces are condoned.
Add to this the distorted mentality of the average Italian citizen who, if he can or as soon as it suits him, unfortunately does not hesitate to try to circumvent the law, thus even offering a valuable assistance to the prevailing bad politics.
Now many pontificate and declare, but let's rest assured that they are only sterile chatter and ends in themselves, just to warn "I told you so ...", after which no one will lift a finger to promote decisive and lasting interventions in order to reverse the bad course that Italy has been taking for decades.
And what happened to the red animal-radical-chic minister? Where has the owner of the tourism department holed up, today that one of the most known and loved homegrown districts in the world, the Cinque Terre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been so hard hit in her heart? How can one disappear and remain silent in front of the images from the Genoa tregenda, whose streets had become torrents in flood?
To us modestly it would seem the best time not just to talk - given the volatility of the words, which we have just mentioned - but also to set up serious preventive action in the numerous existing risk situations, in synergy with the other Ministers concerned and with the Civil Protection.
But no, no declarations of any significance have been made. We would not want this silence to be attributable to the impossibility, for Brambilla, of putting the blame for the event on the shoulders of the hunters in some way.
In fact, if the responsibility for arson can be thrown on them, eager to flush out the game from the thickets, the same cannot be affirmed with the disasters caused by water, really not attributable in any way to hunting.
But equally to her, it can well be said that all the major exponents of the Government and Parliament have culpably kept silent, very excited about the possible resignation of the Premier and the hypothesis of a technical government, while the lives of too many people were forever upset by the floods.
And it even appears strange that other Solons of the environment have not asked, at this juncture, for a moratorium on hunting, as they are used to do in the event of meteorological events of exceptional magnitude.
All these considerations do not deceive us that someone has put the brain mass back into operation (to do so, it would be necessary at least to own it ...), perhaps this time they got a little distracted, but it is sure that it would be high time that all of them were more committed against the real causes of the Italian environmental malaise instead of continuing to distract the opinion publishes with the theme of hunting! Their bad faith is so obvious that it is not even necessary to try to highlight it, we would become redundant and we do not want it.
Rather, we hunters too would wake up a little, at least to show love for our mountains and hills, for our plains, for our coasts, which all see us as protagonists in the exercise of our passion.
The duration of the hunting season is important, the huntable species are important, the exceptions are important, a thousand other elements are, but if the territory will go away a part of us will die forever and so will the rural traditions, including hunting.
Is this what we want?
Source: ANUU Migrationists