How to call It?

Fifty years of blind rush

We are now in the summer of 2020.

The use – and misuse – of plastic to satisfy the desire for immediate comfort and profit, exploiting down to the most mundane gestures of everyday life, is rapidly suffocating the whole earth and the signs, symptoms and consequences of this suffocation can no longer be ignored. Thus all sorts of reports and accounts have begun to surface midst the daily news, and no region of the world escapes it. For instance, in a Japanese national park several fawns have just died from ingesting large amounts of plastic wrappers thrown by the hordes of tourists; off the coast of Scotland, a community that settled on a small island to attempt to establish there a durable society using only renewable energies such as turbines operated by wind or tides and solar panels, practicing caring cultivation and respectful animal husbandry, regularly collects on its shores, with the help of visiting volunteers, piles of refuse and detritus carried by the oceanic currents; more than three hundred women of diverse disciplines and professions, all researchers, have embarked on a nautical voyage to observe the condition of the oceans from Antarctica to the Arctic and from Australia to the Americas, and their message is clear: we will be able to restore the balance only if we all work at it all together and now itself…! Out of covetousness, greed, conformism and a kind of generalized and passive irresponsibility, we all have turned our eyes away from the damages we all have been contributing to cause. And yet those long stated objectives remain worthy of our efforts; the harmonious equipment of every individual’s physical and

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