The meeting is moderated by Paola Rosà.
There is a strange contradiction in our contemporary world. On one hand, there is an increasingly alarming and irreversible environmental emergency; on the other, there is an economic, social, and political model that is a victim of the false myth of growth at all costs, which depletes resources, devastates territories, poisons communities, restricts rights, and triggers more and more social conflicts, both in the Global South and the Global North. Nowadays, it is no longer possible to separate the environmental and social dimensions of the crisis and the distribution of injustices. Just think of the consequences in terms of quality of life and health impacts from contaminating activities and facilities spread across the territory. It is more urgent and crucial than ever to place environmental issues, energy models, ecological transition, clean-ups, and the necessary participation institutions—needed to bridge the gap between citizenship and representation—at the center of political debate and agenda. Speaking on this is Marica Di Pierri, an activist and journalist who has been dealing with environmental and social issues for years.
