Restoring STS Lord Nelson, a unique Tall Ship for protecting our oceans

Today STS LORD NELSON  needs your help! Without urgent restoration work, this iconic vessel may be lost forever! Good Pirates was formed to carry out this important project!  The STS Lord Nelson is one of the world’s most extraordinary tall ships — a proud three-masted barque built to enable people of all physical abilities to …

The effemerity of being * l’effemerità dell’essere

English text below! Interessante la correlazione tra il pensiero di Malthus Thomas nel suo “Saggio sul principio della popolazione” risalente al 1798 nel quale affermava che i fattori demografici quali il sovrappopolamento e lo squilibrio popolazione-economia possano essere ritenuti responsabili dei movimenti migratori.Nell’attuale situazione planetaria a distanza di ben di 225 anni e con otto …

Saturday September 28th. 2019: I was there, in the Federal Square Bern

foto del ghiacciaio del Rodano scattata il 4 settembre 2012 100,000 participants: they were so numerous that only a part was able to enter the large square, in front of the imposing Federal Palace where decisions of vital importance are made, for Switzerland, but not only. In 19 days Switzerland will vote: with this strike, …

Environmental imbalance and biodiversity * Disequilibrio ambientale e biodiversità

The philosopher Carlo Sini has simplified the problem of biodiversity decline by stating that it is a disequilibrium between "prey" and "predators" that in the long run will cause the collapse of an entire ecosystem. But what is an ecosystem, also called an ecological unit? It is a set of living organisms of plants and …