And now transition. What better occasion than the Taranto ruling on the former Ilva to change in depth. The largest steel company in Europe judged by the Courts for decades of very serious crimes has been in the hands of politics since yesterday. More than before. In a few weeks we will read the reasons for the sentence, but there is no doubt that this first pronouncement falls within the moment in which it is essential to build a profoundly new relationship between industry, environment and health.
Without going around too much, the truth is that in no country in the world have the three pillars of advanced societies been split. Identifying "peaceful" roads is not easy, apart from the thousands of conferences, reports, studies, street demonstrations. The effects of the former Ilva on the health of the citizens of Taranto have been ignored by hundreds of subjects pro tempore as managers, trade unionists, politicians, judges, commentators. When everyone is said to be guilty, no culprit is wronging the truth. In this case the wrong would fall on the dozens of victims of deadly fumes and exhausts. Health can be defended without killing industry, but by reclaiming it.
Politics, therefore, has the primary responsibility of taking over all future steps. He has to do it now. Deciding the future of'steel mill. Because, again, that's what it is. Everywhere in the Ministries, in the Puglia Region, in the Municipality of Taranto, in the Arpa, in the political and trade union offices, in the Committees, involved in various capacities in the affair, there are mountains of documents (who cost who knows how much?).
Perhaps it is not the case to archive them definitively and start over. Not those of the judiciary. They will serve for many more years, perhaps even to rectify some first degree convictions. But the industrial part (read politics) must be completely rewritten in a realistic way. Italy at the moment is in the hands of an authoritative government that wants to seize all the opportunities for the sustainable transformation of Europe.
A historic occasion, where Draghi has placed the search for thatbalance between industry, environment, health which was said. As in any complex activity, there is no shortage of criticism, but at Palazzo Chigi there are those who know how to listen. And luckily we don't see any more useless, demagogic appearances. Time is a precious ally for redesigning in Taranto - evidently not only there - a development model where theand productions are not antithetical to the protection of the environment and health.
In the ecological transition plan designed by Minister Cingolani, the Taranto site is identified as an industrial site to use hydrogen instead of other fossil fuels. A captivating project, but not very fast in which scientific research and experimentation have taken the place of many decisive lies declaimed in the past. Capabilities come out as soon as possible. Ultimately it does not seem strange that it is politics that establishes the new course of the former Ilva. It is that the country now has serious leadership.
