At a time when humans are threatening the extinction of so many other species, it may not seem so surprising that some people think that the extinction of our own species would be a good thing. Take, for example, the Movement for Voluntary Human Extinction, whose founder believes that our extinction would put an end…
Categoria: Sostenibilità
Pietro Porcinai
“Out of cowardice or for money, most architects have abandoned the world of things built in harmony with Nature, allowing ugly cities and horrible suburbs to arise. It is up to the landscape architect to find a remedy for this situation, but it must be someone who knows. think before acting. […] So that ugliness…
Nasrin Sotoudeh, your sentence is an insult to mankind
I have to be honest: this time it took me a while to accept this news from Iran. Although I have been addicted to hangings, public executions, death sentences, restrictions and so on for years, the sentence against Nasrin Sotoudeh really left me speechless. The most famous Iranian human rights lawyer was sentenced to 38…
CÉLINE AND FLORA
Writing subjects me to a severe exclusion, not only because it separates me from current (“popular”) language, but more essentially because it forbids me to “express myself”: who could express? By bringing to life the inconsistency of the subject, its atopy, dispelling the lure of the imagination, it makes all lyricism unsustainable (as the diction…
LOUIS KAHN
First of all I want to tell you that architecture does not exist. There is a work of architecture. And a work of architecture is an offer to architecture in the hope that this work can become part of the architectural treasure. Not all buildings are architecture. Of great help to my task as an…
Grace Deledda
“We are Spaniards, Africans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Pisans, Byzantines, Piedmontese. We are the yellow gold broom that falls on the rocky paths like great lighted lamps. We are the wild solitude, the immense and profound silence, the splendor of the sky, the white flower of the cistus. We are the uninterrupted kingdom of the…
Open letter
Dear students who are on strike for the climate, we scientists and scholars of climate change and the environment offer you all our support. We are united by the desire to study reality, and one of the realities that unfortunately emerges today is the difficulty for human beings to question themselves: this explains the attacks…
it’s getting late
What is education for, what are schools for if not to trigger a process of understanding and equality in the world in young people? What are the schools for if then a lucky part of them takes the preferential. Happiness like wealth is not a gift that can be inherited but must be conquered and…
Nemonte Nenquimo
Nemonte Nenquimo is an indigenous activist and member of the Waorani nation of the Amazon region of Ecuador. She is the first female president of the Waorani of Pastaza (CONCONAWEP) and co-founder of the non-profit organization led by the indigenous Ceibo Alliance. In 2020, she was named on the Time 100 list…
Dacia Maraini
“Berlusconi is the greatest cultural catastrophe of our time. Perhaps even worse than fascism, because it is more subtle and underground, because it is seductive and apparently successful. Berlusconi has introduced the culture of the market, one in which everything is bought and sold, from senators to minors. “ Dacia Maraini
Democracy
“When the unjustly oppressed multitude, drawn by anger and driven by fury, resolves to avenge the outrages received immediately, democracy is born” Tommaso Garzoni (1549 – 1589)
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