“The earth element is the supporting infrastructure of all the others. The earth gives us life, without the earth there is no life. Even water, which passes through the earth, must be safeguarded. Obviously all the interventions that the man must have a sustainability approach to avoid creating environmental damage which, unfortunately, is causing the changes that we see every day through climate change”. Arcangelo Francesco Violo, President of the National Council of Geologists, told Adnkronos on the sidelines of the first day of the National Congress at Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo. “Climate change and all its consequences, such as hydrogeological instability or water scarcity, will be a topic addressed and we will make proposals through thematic tables that will be brought to political decision makers. But we will also talk about energy transition”, he added.
“Climate change is underestimated in Italy. The majority of world experts in this sector, the vast majority of scientists, give irrefutable data on the fact that climate change exists and that it is also caused by pollution” continues Violo. “In this historical period, man has emitted climate-altering gases which have certainly modified the effects of climate change that we see every day – he says – But climate change must not be an alibi. The effects of increasingly extreme weather events are amplified because there is an increasingly urbanized territory. We must work on this.”
“In the Campi Flegrei there was a planning problem but not only there. There was a problem throughout our country. How many millions of buildings have been built in Italy in areas with high seismic risk and are vulnerable, they are not effective and efficient from an anti-seismic point of view”. He then continued: “But on the other side there is an important seismic swarm, we had a very strong 4.4 shock, but we must also say that that is the most monitored volcano in the world. So scientists are following it and on we must have faith in this.”
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