Overtourism, in Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi) the power goes out. The failures are not divine curses, but human errors… Comment
And today too, at lunchtime, the current. Like last night, like yesterday and the day before yesterday. Always like this… Taking away with him the refrigeratorThe fan to survive, the radio and the TV, Internetthewaterfall of taps and bathrooms etc. Like all summer. With interruptions without warning that devastate daily life. In the private homesin the commercial activitiesin the hospitals and in health institutions… Everywhere. All the timers go off (to be reprogrammed), the therapies in progress go off, the doorbells go off, the drinks turn to broth, the food melts.
Cheglie, the emerging city of trulli and of the farmsstormed from every part of Italy and the world, on their knees. The people, shocked by the 38 degrees permanent for weeks desperate and hanging on Facebook to get some information, the battery-powered torches to light our homes at night, they sell out and are in great demand. And the tsunami even hits the Benefit Farmhouse where they stay Melons And Lollobrigidahindered in their digital relationships and promptly compensated with a special generator, lucky them.
Who in the village knows the mysteries and secret things Enel tells us that the power plants are old and obsolete, not able to handle the new demand for energy induced by large tourist flows. Flows that are, however, predictable and expected. What is it waiting for to intervene in a definitive and decisive way with appropriate investments on the network and on the territory? That territory of Brindisi and its province, moreover, has been plagued for years by the Enel power plant in Cerano, which has provided energy over time to all of Italy, paying high environmental and health prices.
Why is nobody saying anything? among honorable members, assessors, councilors and public officials? Why is no one getting angry and making their voices heard? The damages are not divine curses, they are the evil fruit of the errors, the lack of foresight, the cunning of men. There is no need to invoke divine providence. We need to protest, raise our voices, together.
We are at the South but we are not subjects… we are citizens, with equal rights (and equal duties) and equal dignity. Let’s make some noiseas Diodato sang, let’s make ourselves heard. If they come here en masse from the North to the trulli and the masserie, we are happy. But let’s adapt the electrical services to a doubled population and let everyone live peacefully, starting with the elderly and the sick. IT’S OUR RIGHT.
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