Thanks for the environmental pollution
From the journal of Silvana Zambanini
In 2005, appealing for de-pollution, I wrote: “we need to preserve the ecosystem’s biological balance to avoid an irreversible decline”.
Before that, I could not find the term de-pollution in my 1971 Zingarelli dictionary. Today, the word is beginning to appear in menu items on some new sites about environmental pollution.
Nowadays, the term de-pollution has entered our collective sub- conscience, as revealed by its varied use (e.g. mental de-pollution, physical de-pollution). This indicates general ways of thinking which are now becoming part of our understanding.
I do not want to talk about new models and typical paradigms of the green economy, there is a real and pressing need: to de-pollute, to rid of pollution.
De-pollution is necessary for agriculture to have a future.
But I am not just talking about agricultural pollution but more widely about environmental pollution. In fact, even the most virtuous farm cannot ignore the issue of pollution at a global level because this affects the life cycles of the entire ecosystem.
The yields of every farm will today be shaped by a tangible truth: changes to the vital processes, whether physical, chemical or biological, resulting from the alteration of the earth-water-air-light matrix.
Growing only for economic reasons?
These days, we are aware of the effects of pollution, such as soil damage, water contamination, loss of biodiversity, an increase in CO2, and so on. However, farmers are not directly informed about this because some areas are still the domain of specialist experts: agronomists, biologists, microbiologists and biotechnicians, so much so that the position of environmental control officer has recently emerged.
There is a lack of communication between farmers and experts in the sector. The farmer is totally disconnected from the environmental context, not taking into account the functions and vital balances of the crops, let alone the functioning of ecosystem. Farmers have lost contact with nature, becoming agricultural business people who grow only for economic reasons.
A way of working consistent with the deadlines to combat the issue of environmental pollution at a global level requires the involvement of everyone, making a sound and intelligent contribution. If it is true that the majority set the example, a sound and intelligent contribution is not what has been outlined by American scientists and their billionaire financier Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. We could call it an issue of mental pollution, given that it relates to a solar radiation management (SRM) project using calcium carbonate to stop global warming. More precisely, this geo-engineering project involves launching millions of tonnes of this powder into the atmosphere to block and reflect some of the sun’s rays, with the objective of lowering the planet’s temperature to mitigate the effects of global warming and climate change.
Scientific viewpoints and experimental approaches, money apart, all come to the same conclusion: there is no way that we can de-pollute the world with chemistry.
We need a technology derived from an advanced science to repair the errors of our technological era!
The illusion of climate engineering to combat global warming would not be able to replicate the natural mechanism which inspired the demigods of Harvard University (the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 in the Philippines, which lowered global temperatures by half a degree for 18 months) because natural chemistry has secret laws which are very different from the Kinetic Monte Carlo chemistry.
“The law of the universe says that secrets must be respected and honoured with humility in order to be part of it“ A. Mendini
Global sustainability stems from overcoming environmental pollution
Just look at the that greyish veil on the horizon: since the 1980s, atmospheric pollution has led to a 20% reduction in light radiance with a negative impact on photosynthesis.
Just think of the islands of plastic floating in our seas, the tonnes of dumped radioactive substances, the discharges from industrial plants, and other examples, to understand the extent of water pollution. And then consider everything that gets into the ground to understand the extent of soil pollution.
Environmental sustainability stems from overcoming global pollution and this applies in particular to farming.
Some people call this a profound ecological vision but for me it is just “a bit of common sense”.
Others, inspired by the multi-billion Green Deal aimed at Generation Z are facing up to the apocalypse by building empty vessels: fanciful graphs, some affected slogans, palatable quotes for stakeholders, a nod to the consensus of systems thinking, a call for sustainable agriculture, a code of ethics and a visionary statement and that’s it…
the brand stands out and consciences are eased.
Environmental sustainability: substance, not appearance
Agricultural sustainability means finding a concrete way to overcome the issue of global pollution. Global pollution involves the whole planet because the “earth-water-air-light” system is one without borders, in good but also in bad.
Today, farming should more properly be considered the management of the earth-water-air-light system which, in turn, becomes an indicator of productivity and yielding for every farm.
Pollution is not just an environmental problem, it is also an economic and social one and de-pollution is a prevailing necessity.
A sustainable agricultural system cannot be reduced to simple appearances, like a “from sustainable sources” label, but it must first and foremost be substance.
