The choices of the Tuscany Region
In the end the Tuscany Region won its battle to be able to build a mega wind farm along the ridge of theMugello Apennines, on Mount Giogo di Villore. Many people opposed it, citizens and associations, complaints and reminders were made to the TAR: nothing to be done, the project must be carried out! In the name of ecology and ecological transition, mountains can be gutted and landscapes violated even if in violation of the constitutional dictate that commits the State to defending it! Economic interests disguised as ecology have won over everything. Projects are underway all over the world that in the name of fighting climate change and "saving the planet" (by planet meaning only its climate!), planet Earth is being violated as much and more than the wars. But what should be stigmatized is not so much the commitment of governments and politics with the usual parties always hungry for money and ready to do anything to make it go round, but the moral support they also receive from so-called "environmentalist" associations which, in fact, , in order to save what they mean by life and ecologism (almost always referring to man!) they are participating in the destruction of the planet as a physical subject, with an interest in man that is always and only merely physical and an absolute disinterest in values spiritual of the same.
Environmental values
For which beauty as a value counts for nothing, therefore mountains can be disfigured and forests cut down, if this brings physical benefit to man's life. In practice, materialistic selfishness wins over every other interest, at the cost of having a planet totally subjected to man's desires and physical needs for enrichment. Cultural, environmental, landscape, wildlife values, waste paper faced with the need to have energy from renewable sources! If the mountains and intact landscapes are non-renewable, it doesn't matter: the important thing is that everything that is civilization takes over what was once only Nature. And, even better, if by doing so, many will be able to get even richer! Once upon a time there were those who fought against capitalism; today there are those who ride it for the good of the Earth!
Solar Panels
Indeed, with the motivation of saving the planet! “Those who oppose the development of renewable energy sources do damage to the environment and to the very landscape they say they want to defend,” wrote the Tuscany Region. So why not lay out an array of solar panels and even some wind towers next to the Tower of Pisa? How we can defend the natural landscape, given that we want to disfigure it, also destroying forever the places where the gigantic wind towers will be installed, remains a mystery! Or does the Tuscany Region believe that landscape should only be understood as that manipulated by man? Why then should we ask ourselves why almost all the scenarios chosen by advertising to market products (from cars to songs) are immaculate by man, where it is always and only Nature that dominates? This is a puzzle, and the Mugello scenarios should not be chosen to make them power plants. Especially with structures which, given the speed with which science proceeds, will probably be obsolete and horrendous cathedrals in the desert in a few decades! (Source AIW General Secretary – Franco Zunino)