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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.

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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.