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Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 10, No. 9
Publication Date: September 25, 2023
DOI:10.14738/assrj.109.15581.
Cossiga, G. A. (2023). Sustainability and Community: An Alliance to Reach Complete Neutrality with Nature. Advances in Social
Sciences Research Journal, 10(9). 263-279.
Services for Science and Education – United Kingdom
Sustainability and Community: An Alliance to Reach Complete
Neutrality with Nature
Giovanni Antonio Cossiga
Collegio Sindaci Policlinico Umberto 1, Universita Sapienza, Roma
ABSTRACT
After the Covid epidemic, the conditions were created for a change in the
geopolitical framework. But as Gramsci said “The new one is slow to arrive,” Maybe.
But some important innovations on which the changes will be based are there for
all to see. The widespread and rapid sentiment regarding global warming among
communities globally, even before the serious evolution of the world under stress
was announced and disseminated by the press and science. Because communities
are forerunners of the sentiment spread by the universal laws that affect matter but
also the laws of the human economy and therefore of life itself on the planet. There
is nothing new in the fact that the communities were the first to incorporate concern
for the planet's anomalies and that they give prevalence to the theme of the disease
of the planet for anthropometric reasons compared to the social issues that usually
absorb the debate between the parties. There is therefore a discontinuity between
the communities attracted by the danger for future generations and the
management of the political parties agitated by the conflict of positions due to the
hunger for consensus. Now this hunger for consensus not only does not have a
meeting point with the communities but is creating a discontinuity between the
unitary tendency of the communities and the contentiousness index of the parties.
It could be deduced that we have reached a turning point that puts the problem of
the disease of the planet back at the highest point of interests and therefore the
unitary tendency of the communities must prevail over the scattering of consensus
among the politic parties. As if to say that we must move from the representative
democracy of the parties to the direct democracy of the communities. In other
words, moving from political governments to technical governments composed of
experts and scientists given the growing and decisive importance on the lives of
future generations of intervening to correct global warming of the planet.
Keywords: Communities, direct democracy, planet warming, transition.
INTRODUCTION
We are witnessing growing unease about the feared and widespread effects of global warming.
Over the course of thousands of years, the presence of living beings has had no appreciable
consequences on the fate of our world, or at least they are not aware of it. Now awareness for
everyone comes from changing from adverse events. from the fires that shake all the continents
from Canada to Hawaii from Greece to Spain, and so on. Atmospheric science is sounding the
alarm, but even before the scientific concerns, the orientation of people has changed, and they
instinctively focus on products that have fewer consequences on the disease of the overheating
planet.
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The turning point of the change in world public opinion was not initiated by scientific news nor
by the adverse events that are having repercussions around the world, but by a widespread
sentiment which in the space of a few years has expanded the concern of public opinion on the
issue of environmental change. And above all on the responsibility of men and their search for
well-being without attention to the planet's ability to withstand the consequences of industrial
development based on fossil energy and environmental degradation.
It is certainly intriguing that in the space of a few years the sensitivity of public opinion on the
environmental issue has become so heightened that Gramsci's phrase "The old world is dying".
The new one is slow to arrive..." A phrase probably referring to the geopolitical situation on the
eve of the Second World War, but which now sounds rather like the announcement that the old,
distracted world is over and a new era in relations with nature is beginning.
The sentiment that spreads on the topic of global warming is a sort of symptom, an alarm bell
that the danger is growing over time and that it is necessary to accentuate the efforts and
tensions in the world of research and science to absorb the fever of the planet- To avoid a new
mass extinction, after the one that affected Homo 900 thousand years ago due to a cycle of
glaciations. The growing sensitivity of communities in the face of looming adverse weather
conditions perhaps signals that the attention of the political world in general at a global level
does not seem adequate to the looming threat. Or rather, that the matter of the relationship
with nature is in fact left too much in the hands of companies which nevertheless make an
economic calculation on the changes and not a global defense project. A defense project that
can only be based on concertation at the level of the UN, the G20, the Brics etc... 1Except that the
objectives underlying these organizations and especially the UN move rather in the geopolitical
field and mutual relations between continents, much less as a concertation of common actions
and research to ward off the fear of an adverse and dangerously increasing climate, which a few
decades ago was not a danger considered imminent. The UN was founded in the aftermath of
the Second World War with the primary objective of avoiding wars in the future. A fundamental
and partly evaded objective, this does not mean that the organization cannot have a role in
controlling temperatures on the planet. The EU has intervened firmly on the issue of global
warming, indicating to the member countries objectives for the reduction of greenhouse gases.
Multi-year objectives that meet different sensitivities in local governments.
These observations on the degree of danger of the adverse climate and the relative institutional
inadequacy of these supranational organism can also be extended to national institutions and
in particular to the political parties that shape the democracy of states. It can be added that the
problem is exacerbated for authoritarian states, particularly in the communist-inspired South
Asian area, which are grappling with the problem of popular acceptance of the regime. In
particular, China,2 which acts as the "factory of the world" and records strong air pollution in
1 The UN Charter is composed of a preamble and 19 other chapters, for a total of 111 articles. The treaty began with
these words: "We the people of the United Nations, determined to save future generations from the scourge of war,
which twice in this generation has brought untold affliction to mankind."
2 China's race towards peak carbon and climate neutrality does not pass-through air quality. At least for 2021. The
Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Beijing has just revised the maximum values for fine particles. Last year, PM2.5
air pollution could not exceed 35 μg/m3 by law. During this year, however, the breach will only occur beyond the
threshold of 34.5 μg/m3
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the main cities. Despite this, a report from the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute
states that China has reduced air pollution as much as the US in 30 years. Which is to say that
even the United States does not escape the theorem that sees nations having difficulty directing
their attention and greater volumes of resources towards a better relationship with the planet.
At the level of each community, the tensions that drive individual parties rarely inform the
public about the delays and actions underway to mitigate harmful gases in the atmosphere. On
the other hand, the topic concerns above all the search for alternatives to the use of fossil
energy; but it does not appear that the research sector and universities have been provided
with new and more substantial resources to accentuate the training and recruitment of scholars
and scientists in the field. On the other hand, it escapes the common attention of people how
and to what extent the commitment of governments and institutions to promoting the fight
against natural adversities manifests itself.
So, it seems easy to deduce that tensions on the oil and gas price front are a basic factor that
pushes the private market to invest in research and in solar, wind and marine energy. It is
strange that public administrations seem to play a role of brake and not of incentive of private
initiatives in the field of renewable energy with assessments and requests for documentation,
often superfluous or excessive, given the threat environment that affects us.
Which is to say that a comprehensive alliance is being created between the community or at
least magna pars of it and the market economy (businesses, commerce, financial activities, the
press, etc.). An alliance that is the driving force for greenhouse gas reduction programs, which
above all is driven by the primary impulse of the community, which selects food and non-food
production in family consumption that respects the relationship with nature, A behavior that
at some time urges industrial and commercial activities to invest in the production of renewable
energy and to promote greener products on the market which has become demanding.
THE COMMUNITY PERCEIVED IN ADVANCE THE DANGER THAT LOOMS OVER
HUMANITY
The sensitivity of communities that show a preference for green products and activities should
not be surprising, although the relationship between the product market and the community's
tastes move on distinct levels. The community is invested with responsibility for the life of
future generations and therefore we can believe that the acceleration of general sentiment
towards nature falls within the context of the fundamental duties of groups. It has therefore
spread without governments raising alarms regarding the planet's disease. Perhaps even the
press information itself and the push to search for methods to contain the phenomenon of
overheating are the result of the sudden and rapid awakening on the topic of communities.
As if to say that the topic of atmospheric anomalies has become central in coincidence with the
attention of communities to the issue of the spread of the great COVID epidemic. Having turned
the page on the epidemic, the monster to be fought now seems to depend, in terms of looming
danger, on the sentiment of the population. A sentiment that feeds itself, but which does not yet
A slight improvement, at first glance. But things are different, given that in 2020 China officially monitored the air quality
in more than 330 cities across the country and the overall average was 33 μg/m3. The capital Beijing recorded higher
average values, equal to 38 micrograms. In any case, these are decidedly higher levels than those considered safe by
the World Health Organization (WHO), which sets the threshold at no more than 10 μg/m3 for PM2.5 particulate matter.