The ecological reconversion of the productive system and the dominant pattern of consumption is a utopia, as claimed Asor in an article in the manifesto of 14:10 Yes, concrete is a utopia, in the sense that this term was given to Alex Langer . And 'that is, a practical, yet radical alternative to the existing state of things. E 'feasible for two reasons. The first is that there are alternatives: sooner or later - sooner rather than later: a few decades and, in some cases, a few years - Planet Earth will enter a state of suffering irreversible, in which to continue with the current system of production will still be impossible. But take a different path will be neither easy nor rapid: they will do better than those who have already gained some experience in this respect and, above all, that this perspective will be involved in the majority of actors who must take charge: that the whole population each, and each social category, for the part that can compete. The second reason is that for the first time combines the environmental issue beyond doubt with the issue of employment, and with it, with those on income, consumption and equity social. The situation of the automotive industry, including the story of Fiat's Termini Imerese Pomigliano and is only a special case, makes this clear.
The product is polluting cars, and in the use phase (contributes at least 14 percent of greenhouse gas emissions), and in that of production (extraction, transport and processing of raw materials and energy resources production and the constituent assembly, with an impact at least equivalent), both in its infrastructure (roads, bridges, tunnels, interchanges, parking areas, especially urban amenities impassable without a car: you get together with close to 50 percent of emissions). In addition, the capacity of the sector is and will remain too large: in the West and in Japan it is clear; in emerging countries will become faster: programs for development of the industry and motorization of the population are impassable. Finally, this field is fierce competition: not only commits the brands (companies), but also the states and unions and, through them, the workers called to line up like soldiers in defense of his business in a war against other businesses, other states, other workers. In this competition the contestants are destined to fall like bowling pins one by one. First the weak, and Fiat, and between them: but not before he sold out - if you follow the suggested path, commonly called BAU (business as usual) - rights, wage levels, welfare (for those who have it yet), health, life and family. And leads to ruin what remains of the great Italian industry. The event of 16 in Rome gave a signal and provided a reference to all those who, not only to Fiat, not only in industry in general, not just in the audience of employees, intend to oppose this perspective. The problem is no alternative to this link, and a path (road map) to turn down the street and realize it.
in the auto industry - as in almost all industrial sectors, starting with the arms industry: the only one in Italy "pulls" at full speed, thanks to public spending and the "humanitarian wars" - there are technical and human resources (workers, managers, know how, and even plants) to start gradually different productions: in particular energy sector, which is one to which it is a top priority in the conversion project (micro-cogeneration plants, wind turbines, and marine microhydraulics, geothermal pumps, photovoltaic panels and solar thermal and thermodynamic). The market for these products in part pays for itself ", with the savings that can be achieved; in part is encouraged, and could be much more if you forgoing treatment "to lose", such as nuclear power and other "great works". But to drive such a process would certainly not be the current management of Fiat, all screened in the run up to the precipice of competing in an industry with no future. Faced with blackmail "or accepted this diktat - and all those who come after - or quit" the only possible answer is that contrapporgli viable alternative: if the company is no longer able to guarantee its rights and employment employees, passing his hand to others: taking on, at least in part, the costs of conversion.
It's not just the car, and is not only the energy industry, to require a label conversion. Agriculture (in Italy in great suffering) and food industry, construction (and urban planning), mobility, waste management (conserving resources), water, land, education, research and training are all areas where a change of course is necessary and urgent. And when the conditions for conversion are already partly present in the skills and plants now engaged in the production and management to be abandoned: just think of the passage from the "great works" of civil engineering at safeguarding the environment and the restructuring and commissioning security of installations and buildings. In all cases cited, the guiding principle of the conversion must necessarily be gradual reterritorialization "of production and markets through their ever-closer proximity: in agriculture, energy generation, waste recovery and waste, the rehabilitation of buildings and land, in training . A system in which to travel around the world are above information, knowledge and cultures - bit - and people who are carriers, and less and less, also because of increasing costs and impacts that will have the transport, resources and physical assets : atoms.
E 'this is the only real alternative to the "trade wars", ie the mere protectionism, da tempo impraticabile; ma anche alla rincorsa delle valute che imperversa oggi, o alla gara a chi “esporta” di più a spese dei competitori più deboli e delle relative popolazioni. Ed è anche la risposta alla teoria dei “vasi comunicanti” proposta da Eugenio Scalfari e ricordata da Asor Rosa. Certamente è giusto che le differenze tra salari, diritti e livelli di vita dei paesi industrializzati e quelli dei paesi emergenti – ma anche tra questi e le regioni che non “emergono” affatto – si vadano attenuando, come di fatto già avviene. Ma l’unico modo per rendere il processo graduale e meno traumatico per tutti è quello di guidare ogni territorio – che è cosa differente da "Every State" - to food security, energy self-sufficiency, respect for the environment, promote social and cultural life of their inhabitants.
But who will do anything? Every possible road map must begin with an observation: to drive, or even conceive and design a course like this you need a new ruling class, the current one, is part of industrial policy that is not quite up to the task, nor can equipped to become: it is inextricably caught in the dogma Tatcherism (TINA: There Is No Alternative) that there is no alternative to liberalism and to the despotism of the company. Certainly, in the formation of a new ruling class, many skills and competencies of many carriers can be detected by groups that are in charge, but only if a sufficiently strong magnet will be able to remove them, in bits and pieces, from the network of complicity - and irresponsible - that currently binds them. Work because it creates, in the relations of production and the current political order, a new and different leadership is not trivial task, nor of short duration, while the clock is ticking. But for this we must start now and something can be done now. It helps in defining a road map, the fact that the privileged framework for conversion is the territory. Certainly it is a process che non potrà avere esiti positivi se non a livello superiore: nazionale, continentale e planetario. Ma è sui territori, a partire dalle loro specificità, sia geografiche e produttive che sociali, politiche e culturali, che le cose devono partire; i livelli sovraordinati potranno esserne investiti e coinvolti solo se i territori saranno in grado di esercitare su di essi pressioni adeguate. Per fortuna non siano soli, né in Italia, né in Europa, né nel mondo. Molti altri sono al lavoro come noi, o come potremmo fare noi, e meglio di noi.
Una nuova classe dirigente ha bisogno di saperi, sia di carattere tecnico sia di carattere sociale, intesi come conoscenza del proprio territorio e delle sue potenzialità; entrambi are abundantly distributed in the population - is not that busy - so much so that the basic committees, associations, movements and organizations of the 'other economy "have demonstrated their ability to grow only through increased exploitation of their knowledge. He needs legitimacy, funding and other, different skills, which are present in local government or one of them, which can only arise from a suitable pressure from below. Needs of businesses and entrepreneurs to put their expertise to new projects, and these may in part be provided - and sizes - from the third sector, in part by companies cornered by the crisis (not always Pirates led by as many bankrupts rose to prominence in the news). It needs finally to a place where these three elements - businesses, governments and associations - can open a dialogue and try to work together to define specific conversion projects. And this is the ideal forum for the selection and training of a new and different leadership. After the event, 16 Fiom could take the initiative - with all due caution, that is, without exaggerated expectations of immediate food - the kind of preparatory meetings in all crisis situations. The story of Electrolux
Scandicci, abandoned by multinational controlled it and turned the production of solar panels through the struggle of workers, trade unions and the support of the Region, but also the commitment of many Tuscan towns to install the equipment manufactured in their facilities, taking advantage of incentives that also allow you to make the transaction cost zero, is exemplary: at the prospect of a market for soft start was not too hard to find entrepreneurs who assume management. Unfortunately, the chosen subjects do not seem up to the task, above all, it seems, because they were attracted by alternatives of speculation on the property noted. But that report only the weakness of a selection process that might have been more when subjected to rigorous public scrutiny and more transparent. Practice makes you learn.
experience - bankruptcy - such as that of Campania Waste Forum, to which I have participated directly in its time had shown that, faced with extreme situations, the willingness to discuss and propose alternative matures within a few businesses and some government . It is certainly not to that experience (hence the failure) the support of the Regional, which also had promoted and then he dropped it badly, but not that many mayors and councilors of the willing, and it was not especially even by the writer, the ability to assess, Despite these difficulties, the daily potential of a site like this: in anticipation of future dates, such as Fiat's Pomigliano and its induced, which could be involved.
In the debate on public ownership and privatization, the state and market, making its way to a "third way" that is not to Tony Blair and Anthony Giddens, but that of the control from the bottom of goods and resources to acquire the sphere of common goods. A ball that is not a metaphysical entity, as would appear from the mantra about a "common" transformed into substance that impregnates the world or an area defined once and for all, but the result possibile, e sempre a rischio, di mobilitazioni, di lotte, e soprattutto di alternative progettuali. Il caso dell’Elettrolux allude alle straordinarie potenzialità che un controllo dal basso esercitato sui governi locali offre alla promozione di un mercato riterritorializzato e alla rilocalizzazione delle relative produzioni. La legge che espropria definitivamente gli Enti locali della possibilità di dotarsi di strumenti di intervento economico – ed eventualmente di sottoporli a un controllo dal basso – instaura in realtà un regime di predazione dove, in nome di una falsa concorrenza, l’unico soggetto a essere privato della cosiddetta libera iniziativa – e della possibilità di lavorare alla riconversione produttiva del territory - is the town hall: the administration can and should represent more directly the requests and needs of citizens. The third step of the roadmap is definitely the fight against this injustice.
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