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RUGGERO MARIA SANTILLI
Italy is also expected to be afflicted by climactic changes with catastrophic
social and financial implications. The author remembers well the majestic view
of the Alps from a plane in the 1970s with vast snow coverage even during summers,
while now snow is visible in the summer only in the highest peaks. This
unquestionable occurrence is sufficient evidence for the prediction that the now
very rich and fertile plane of the Po River will become more and more dry and
unproductive in time, with devastating social and economical consequences.
Also, The Economist in England published in the fall of 2004 a report from the
U. S. Pentagon presenting for the first time data showing the slow-down of the
Gulf Stream due to the decreased density, temperature and salinity of the North
Atlantic following the melting of ice of the North Pole. The complete halting of
the Gulf Stream is now quite probable, the only debatable aspect being the time
of the occurrence, that is, when England will become like Iceland in winter due
to extreme cold.
There are three major threats to mankind opposing the resolution of environmental
problems. Due to decades of personal experience in various walks of
society, the author is so skeptic on the capability by contemporary society to
solve our environmental problems, to place his best hopes on the self-correcting
capability of Earth, such as the possibility that the melting of the ice in the North
and South Poles somehow compensates the global warming, but this always at
huge costs to mankind, such as seeing Florida and the Po River Plane being
submerged by the sea.
The first major threat to mankind is due to the fact that the deterioration of
environmental problems is a very slow process that, as such, does not create the
collective awareness necessary to initiate serious solutions. For instance, during
the winter of the year 2000, we had about 500 deaths caused by tornados in the
Southern Belt of the United States. Since that time, there has been a general
increase of the number of tornados in winter, with a variable number of deaths, at
time with their decrease due to improved alarm and communication procedures.
Every years we essentially look at possible, generally small differences with the
data of the preceding year without ever discussing the anomalous character of
the event, the tornados occurring in winter, and definitely without addressing
their ultimate origin, thus without any consideration of the need for large human
and financial resources to initiate their containment. Hence, proceeding along
these lines implies that a collective awareness on the need to solve environmental