The case is on everyone's lips: in an interview with TG2 Engines, Danilo Toninelli, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport that among other duties, has a political mandate to push electric mobility, He has candidly admitted that he had just purchased diesel car.
“But Minister! So we end up all over the papers!” – It was the reaction of the interviewer Maria Leitner.
E così è stato.
The minister buys the electric diesel: what's the problem?
I was struck by the naive astonishment with which Toninelli, now master of gaffes, He reacted first to those interviewing him and later to those who criticized him for choosing, as if he did not cover a public role and, moreover, just head of the Ministry of Transport in such an important period of change like the one we are experiencing.
Mind, the point is not that machine uses or buys Toninelli. He preaches the transition to electric and then scratching a car with diesel. The fact is contradictory to the comic limits (It would be enough to buy a hybrid and not an SUV…), but politicians always say one thing and do another with the same naturalness, o no? The real point is the sense of inadequacy, It made even more evident in clumsy justifications:
“Today in Italy unfortunately there are not enough columns to top-up for the electrical”
From this simple sentence we understand how the Italian Minister of Transport already familiar with at least a summary of the key issues of its term. What the hell would the auto-Minister? There are not enough columns? One wonders: He has never used an electric car Minister?
Piuttosto, where are the incentives?
His ministry has promoted incentives or eco-bonus if you prefer on the purchase of electric and hybrid vehicles. Well! Bravi! The incentives would have to start the 1 March, but oggi 19 March still do not know anything their effective implementation because still stuck to the phase of pre-registration of dealers.
Because we are not able to do things right, working from start to finish? Because every time there is an initiative, Also a good intention, all you have to complicate and slow down? Because in other countries things get, while our only ever tell you? In a few years we will realize the serious delay in which our country than their European and then the car will Toninelli already scrapped as our hopes of returning to “count for something”.
And here we come to what happened in the last days of social and Printing, a subject on which I partially delivered via Twitter but which I am still not entered here on the blog: hatred against Greta Thunberg.
Why pick on Greta
After manifestation of 15 March, in which many young people marched in the streets around the world in order to raise awareness of the serious problem of climate change, I read hateful messages against Greta Thunberg, now become in spite of the movement icon.
The media go to a wedding when they can have a character to feed the Coliseum and have done so with the Swedish sixteen year old who has become an idol side and reviled (putting in both cases Incidental his message).
She's just a certain girl in pursuing his ideals, a determination that led her to receive even a nomination for the Nobel that, as personally esteems what he is doing, I find at least premature. Maybe half of us had half the balls that Greta!
What is not explained is why in our country is unleashed in a fury against him from those who would “pull below with the machine” and those who feel “uncomfortable” to see her and who just laughs at her naive statements without trying to understand its meaning or worse his pigtails, as if they had any relevance.
The blame for Greta (and those like her protest) It is to to question the dogmas of a short-sighted and selfish generation that absolutely does not want to give up anything of privileges acquired at the expense of the planet.
Nobody likes to be criticized, let alone by a little girl! But is not that, per caso, we know that that young girl's right?
It is not by chance that quell'inadeguatezza Toninelli is also our inadequacies?
On the environmental issue it is reacting more and more viciously and frustration, I see him every time I talk about electric bikes, when I simply try to understand what future awaits us.
An anger that is actually fear of change, fear of having to give up something that is nothing but a habit and looks increasingly like a vice.
So a theme such as environmental respect we should just see us all united in seeking the best solutions become the pretext for arguing about Greta braids, Toninelli of the car and any other nonsense with the emphasis of the stadium cheering. Or here or there, always divided and hateful.
And to think that would be enough to accommodate the simple knowledge that the world is not dying, we are killing ourselves with our own hands.
Cover image by Spinoza.
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