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Good evening I would like to start these
reflections
starting from two facts that have me a lot
hit recently not because not
it was to be expected after a summer
hot like the one that was there but for
the rapid sequence that followed
the hurricane harvey at the end of August
in the United States in the Caribbean
Caribbean and Texas
the irmen hurricane in the first ten days
in september in cuba and miami in florida
and the flood of livorno all these
phenomena should open have open
eyes to people who until now
they did have underestimated
totally the consequences of the effect
greenhouse of climate change
unfortunately I think we have to wait
still the most negative consequences
if I see if we analyze the results of the
cup and fortune in Paris where they have
passed as a great victory
the fact of having agreed on
a containment of the temperature
increase in the Earth’s temperature of
1.5 degrees two maximum by the end
of the century in the last century
earth temperature has increased
compared to the pre-industrial age of 0.8
degrees 1.5 and double of 0.82 and two
half times
if 0.8 has set the changes in motion
climate that has set in motion
I believe we must expect well
worse
from this kind of increase the only thing
to do is to try not to control one
further increase is up to the current one
but to decrease the earth temperatures
and as in increasing temperatures
terrestrial and predominantly affect
the carboniscrysis and the methane
you have to do three things basically
first reduce the burning of sources
fossils to get energy
second increase the wooded areas
to increase photosynthesis
chlorophyll that absorbs Latinas
carbonic lost limit the farms
industrial consumption of meat for
limit the emissions of methane is
avoid that they are deforested
vast areas of the earth’s surface
to make grazing for animals
breeding that is what is needed
it is this decrease because anyway
humanity has exceeded the limit of
environmental compatibility not only on the
co2 emissions that this year lover
shot day the day humanity has
consumed all renewable resources
that the earth will recall in the course of a
year was 2 August
last year it was August 15th
ten years ago it was 15 of
September 20 years ago it was 15 of
October or the number of gods is reported
progressively towards December 31, not c
it is a future for humanity
but think about the fact that in all the
oceans hovering masses of mush
of plastic larger than the states
united while the fish population is
it is halved, think about the reduction
of the fertility of the soils that are there
there is a whole series of phenomena
that make us understand that the only one
solution to tackle this turning point
which can question the
survival of humanity itself and the
decrease and decrease
because all these phenomena are
increased are fed by the increase
of the production of goods from the increase
of the use of resources by the increase of
missions that are made in the course of the
production cycles
now there is no alternative is not one
choice of degrowth
one realizes that this is not there
alternative that there is no choice yes
must ask the problem to understand if it is
It is possible to make a decrease that does not
involves an excessive deterioration
of the living conditions of the peoples
developed to allow improvement
of the living conditions of the peoples
underdeveloped and can guarantee
a transition of humanity has lost
a historical phase of a different character but
to see if this is possible to us
we first cruise understand that
what is growing and cheap because
we are so used to thinking that
economic growth is the increase of the
goods that are produced and services
that are supplied in reality
the indicator with which the measure is measured
growth of the gross domestic product is the
sum of the sales prices of the
objects and services has its own final
that is, goods and being the sum
of the goods does not tell us anything about the
quality of these goods
that is, if there is anything that damages
that I know the traffic accidents do
grow the gross domestic product
the energy was spoken before you think
that to heat our buildings us
we consume on average 20 liters of
diesel or twenty cubic meters of methane al
square meter per year
the maximum that is allowed in Germany
and 7 liters 7 cubic meters per square meter
a year a third of what
we consume
these are the worst buildings i
better buildings consume one liter e
the middle of the square meter per year
then all these things that they do
grow the trade on the 20 of the product
gross inside is not said to be
things that give results of
positive character for which what
it is necessary to do is to introduce some
qualitative and qualitative elements
objectively reduce the productions of
objects
that have no use when you
it speaks of no use I am not
making a speech of the theory of the
needs
nobody can afford to enter
desires of people even if someone
he thinks they bought sure there is the
excessive number of clothes or spend the
money for something objectively
as damaging as the cigarettes he sees is
a negative fact the people who
they want to get lots of t-shirts
replace the frequency smoking mobiles
some cigarettes buy some cars
powerful people have the right to do it because
however, this is a requirement of
subjective character
we talk about problems of objects that
they are the products that are objectively
useless what are the products
objectively useless I do some
examples the food that nobody throws
let’s say you want to buy some food
to throw away the energy that is explained
in buildings
nobody is happy to spend the
triple what it could spend
to waste energy abuse
medicines
raw materials contained in objects
that are abandoned if the objects that
are issued are buried or
burned they are completely lost
raw materials that contain the
decrease is the selective reduction
of the waste of things that is
objectively they are useless
it is not an intervention within the
choices of people
this we say so is one of the ways in
which can be degressed which
involves an improvement of the
life condition
if our houses reduced the
waste of energy
we could save some money
we reduce the anhydrite emissions
carbon and let’s say the greenhouse effect e
improve
the habitability of the houses this is a
specific example of happy degrowth
if the food waste is reduced
decrease the waste decreases the
part of the most difficult to manage
waste that putrescibile and yes
reduce costs decrease means
use of the most advanced technologies
to reduce waste of substances that
they create problems
degrowth is not the many review
comparison but decreases from the recession
I do not know if for bad faith or ignorance
for what
well the recession is the decrease
generalized and uncontrolled throughout
the production of goods is useful
that the useless ones the consequence more
serious of the recession and the
unemployment the decrease being the
selective reduction of goods that
they have no use in creating
employment and the only way in the countries
advanced industrials to create
employment a useful occupation because
employment is never a value of
for itself
the taranto ilva creates employment
creating environmental damage
the factories of weapons creates a
employment by increasing the possibilities
of the wars we must create
occupation of useful activities ie
give the element of a qualitative character
well as well as being a useful occupation
it is an occupation that costs nothing
this is an element that almost seems
paradoxical but we make the hypothesis of
have a house that consumes 20 liters of
random per square meter per year and that
this house is restored and that i
its consumption drops to 5 liters per meter
square a year
means that the owner of that
house spends after renovation a
quarter of what he spent before
they can even make contracts
for which the energy renovations of
they are made at the expense of the company that
the attorney that he does and the owner
of the House
commits to continue to pay the amount
who pays today for a number of
years predetermined contractually in
this way the savings serve every
year to amortize the shares of the
investments and were necessary to
to renovate the house, that is me
that I can not understand that we
we buy a lot of energy from abroad
many fossil sources spending a lot
money and that this energy for 70 per
one hundred is wasted as a result of
technological inefficiency in consequence
of irresponsibility of behavior
it would not be better than the money that today
we spend to buy energy that
we waste respond to pay the
wages and salaries of people who
they work to make sure we stop
to waste energy you can build
a whole economic policy e
industrial
on these things the first aspect of the
decrease is the reduction of goods
that have no use
objectively the second aspect is the
ability to produce goods that
they are not bought or self-produced
exchange as a gift in the audio
of solidarity relations between the
people in our family us
we have for 18 years a vegetable garden where
we build fruit from vegetables
which serves to satisfy our needs
become that fruit with vegetables
they do not make the internal product grow
gross because they are not bought and
sold reduce the product
gross internal
because we do not go buy the
vegetable equivalent to that which
we produce for ourselves therefore
let’s reduce the demand for the
fruit and vegetable merchandise and the other aspect
beyond the production and capacity of
establish relationships between us
on the gift of time on solidarity e
not competition on competition
as he did until now
degrowth is not one is an idea that
born in the economic field but not yes
exhausts in the economic field is one
goes immediately in a conception of the
world in a conception of life
it’s not putting the minus sign in front of the
pil
because if you just put the
minus sign during the pil would not come out
from the quantitative logic of those who
they want the sign more in front of the mind
pil is the introduction of criteria for
qualitative evaluation in human doing
it is a change of cultural paradigm
a different way to set up reports
of the human species with the world and with the
non-human living and the only way to
overcome not only the ecological crisis but
also the economic crisis allowing the
humanity to open a new phase
more evolved of its history thanks
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