Italy's 'environmental debt'

In a national conference on Climate change, the Minister of the environment Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio announced on Wednesday, September 12th, that the climate is warming-up in Italy four times as fast than in the rest of the world. The economy journalist Mario Deaglio is not surprised. "Behind the label 'environment', it is possible to gather disparate problems, such as pollution from methane, from waste, from global warming and forest fires, from too many jelly-fish to not enough fish ... . All these facets of the same problem can be synthesised in a general concept of 'environmental debt'. Likewise, during the 1970s and 1980s, Italy was not contented to cheerfully accumulate a terrible financial debt, ... it also contributed to deteriorating its own territory, its own air, its own water supplies."

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