Tsunami revitalize the Italian referendum: this is the most neglected of the three questions is likely to drag the quorum those on justice and water.
Perhaps the choice to hold the referendum on June 12, a summer in fact already begun, will prove futile. The most common prediction, in the past days, gave to very likely, indeed almost certain, the lack of a quorum. Who do you go to vote for the referendum? What is the cause for such failure was weakened by the Court of Constitutional Court, the water, we have argued in recent days, has never found much echo in the media even though it was signed by a million and half people, one on nuclear power is simply seemed out of fashion. Things have changed and you all know why. The Japanese earthquake and the tsunami have reopened the debate on nuclear power plants.
Angela Merkel, German chancellor, suspended for three months a decision on the extension of operating 17 units, will probably not be talking about it. Switzerland has blocked the construction of three plants.
In France has reopened the debate. It happens the same everywhere. Even in the U.S. there are questions about plant safety especially fearing the Big One. The Japanese news searches the world to understand what is happening in the affected plants. Overlapping voices deep concerns and reassuring.
Experts fear a new Chernobyl, much of public opinion feared something worse. Even in Italy the emotion is profound. Within a few days the appointment of early summer that seemed destined to be attended only by referendum most hardened, he returned to become a decisive moment in the public debate. In three months the world will be in front of him, perhaps, more realistic budget of the Japanese earthquake. But these days a hurricane news is likely to change the attitude of most of the Italian population. That referendum Cinderella judged opinionated discomfort from nuclear, is likely to lead to millions of citizens voting and even give a jolt to the water and on such failure. Cognition and emotion also passes through at this time there is no doubt that many who had decided to delegate to the experts and the government with the country's nuclear future are deciding to take back its own destiny.
is the strength of the global world in a few moments that change our lives and our ways of thinking. Suddenly disappear and individual security needs facing collective certainties. By the attack of the Twin Towers, the international financial crisis, through the Arab Revolt with the result of immigration biblical and scarcity in energy supplies to the disaster Japanese bent one of the strongest economies in the world will follow the events that change the lives of millions human beings and are multiplying their questions about the future.
Nature, politics, security, religion, progress are subject to review collective like never before occurred in the world contemporary. Only the world wars had resulted in similar injuries. Themes are great and terrible that we must address as well as the stock of ideas about progress, science, democracy is insufficient to respond to global demands and global public opinion expects that new narratives.
The everyday politics is forced to deal with what's happening in the world. Let us return to the Italian case. Three nerds referendum may suddenly become the crucial political event. Much more than elections. Maybe just the Italian Government's decision to renounce nuclear, or to declare a moratorium on the decision to restart nuclear power, can stop the rising wave likely referendum. In these three months will compare different schools of thought, and we fear that the debate will be presented with one or the other apocalyptic field.
writer is opposed to nuclear power. Too many unanswered questions we are facing the danger of building new plants in a country with high seismic exposure. But comparing different ideas on the subject, and this is what I want to talk. There will be time. What is good to highlight is that the political forces and movements of opinion which were styled in a battle weary referendum that would hardly have passed through the wall of media, now face a deadline that threatens to explode the policy.
This is about the left, who helped collect signatures on the referendum for water but not signed, even in some of its components has left open to privatization This is true for nuclear power, supported by the government and its majority at risk of finding an unexpected rejection front, this also applies to such failure, the referenda but little actual impact of great political value.
The strength of the opinion public and collective action is that both have the ability to infiltrate all areas of policy certainty demolishing and forcing a quick review of strategies. What seems to be marginal and residual, within seconds becomes central and decisive.
The fear of nuclear power that would reinforce nell'elettorato's center will bring millions of citizens to vote unexpected rising fame of the referendum on such failure and the water. We are not sure that will happen, but probably will.
The paradox is that a referendum based on the privilege of the prime minister, partly dismantled by the Court, will take place simultaneously in two referendums, and one in particular, that the nuclear, in which the issue of collective security and the preservation is central. Him, us.
Probably Di Pietro is a lucky man, maybe it is Berlusconi. For all of us is the admonition to compete with the thoughts long. They are the only ones that allow you to watch the rapid development of things in the world without being overwhelmed by fear of the inevitability of politics and power because, like reciting the verse of John Donne, takes some getting used to 'never ask for whom the bell tolls, tolls for thee. "
Peppino Caldarola
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