From 2 to 17 May 2023, the territory of Emilia-Romagna was affected by two sequential meteorological events which, in less than twenty days, recorded unprecedented rainfall which involved 44 municipalities, causing the overflowing of 23 waterways, at least 250 major disruptions and landslides, more than 40,000 displaced people and 15 deaths. Not to mention those who lost everything in that disaster, from their homes to their jobs.
They were dramatic daysconvulsive, in which it was not lacking however a widespread and widespread solidarity impulse, with very few precedents. Just as there were many promises made by the institutions during the emergency to reassure those who lived in those areas and wanted to continue living there.
One year later, what is the situation? What is left of that solidarity and those promises? What countermeasures have been taken to prevent all this from happening again?
We took stock with Paolo Missiroli, teacher at the Faenza high school, researcher and author of the volumes Critical theory of the anthropocene. Living after the Earth, living in the Earth and very recent News from the seabeddedicated precisely to the flood of 2023. Listen or download
from Radio Onda d’Urto
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