La “tempesta perfetta” potrebbe arrivare anche prima del 2030: cominciamo a pensarci
Tuesday February 21st, 2012 | 06:07 pm | Dialoghi tra padre e figlio, Future, Books, Politica italiana
È ormai in circolazione da quasi un mese il libro che ho scritto con Gianluca Comin: 2030 La tempesta perfetta – Come sopravvivere alla Grande Crisi. L’accoglienza è stata ottima, com’è testimoniato dalle numerosissime recensioni. Mi sembra giunto il momento di tracciare un primo bilancio, anche perché Gianluca e io abbiamo fatto questo lavoro per stimolare il dibattito in Italia su temi importanti, sistematicamente accantonati di fronte alle emergenze. Vorrei sottolineare tre cose: le caratteristiche temporali del nostro discorso, la natura delle sfide che abbiamo di fronte e i ritardi, soprattutto nel nostro Paese, nell’elaborazione delle risposte.
(Italiano) La sfida dei nove miliardi – un dossier per la rivista East
Monday January 31st, 2011 | 07:14 pm | Dialoghi tra padre e figlio, Future, Globalizzazione, Politica italiana, Statistica
Apocalittici e impiegati
Tuesday January 29th, 2008 | 09:21 am | Uncategorized
Nowadays it’s difficult to find somebody who believes in a revolution that will put an end to the capitalistic system. However, many people think that the actual global system will collapse, because it’s not able to cope with the problems of the 21st century. This apocalyptic scenario is a nightmare and not a dream, because it would mean terrible conditions of life, much worse than today, for billions of people. But the economic, energy and environmental problems are so serious that we cannot take for granted the views of people who tell us that everything is under control. Between apocalypse and unjustified optimism, there is just a narrow road of governance and critical analysis.
La grande sfida della governance mondiale
Friday November 16th, 2007 | 06:50 pm | Uncategorized
We will not have a world government in the near future, but we can’t survive without a global governance: these are my conclusions after having been in charge of the journalists’ desk of the World Energy Congress, going through all the speeches and debates to produce with my team a hundred of press releases. We need global governance for a secure flow of oil, gas and electricity between different countries, for reducing the international speculation on energy prices, for the use of nuclear energy, for drafting a post Kyoto agreement acceptable to all and really useful for curbing the CO2 emissions, for all the consequences of the climate change. We need leaders with vision and courage and a great pressure from public opinion.
Clima: il Sahara è la nostra speranza
Sunday July 1st, 2007 | 09:12 am | Uncategorized
A few things I’ve learnt from the Venice Forum, about the future of energy and climate change. Carbon dioxide emission must be taxed to promote energy saving. And we must invest much more in R&D, which can have promising results, especially in promoting solar energy. In the future, we will need to be strictly connected to Africa as we are now to Russia and the Middle East. But doing this we can only avoid the worst effects of climate change, because in any case in this century the temperature will go upwith important political consequences.
