Not even a relative, a friend. Nobody. Luca Mercalli he was a candidate for the administrative elections Usseaux, in Piedmont, a small Alpine town a stone’s throw from the border with France. The climatologist, an almost permanent television face of What’s the weather likefrom Fabio Fazioand institutional voice of the “generation Greta Thunberg“, he didn’t even collect a single vote. A big blow, even for those who perhaps didn’t expect a deluge of preferences on the ballots.
“As a man of science I consider every experiment useful”, laughs Mercalli, who could have exported his standard bow tie to the municipal council of the town in the province of Turin. And instead nothing: “she surprised me but basically the distrust on the part of Usseaux towards me is not so different from that which, throughout the world, concerns environmental issues”, Mercalli tells the printreferring to the criticism for some of his outings on crazy climate often judged, even by some colleagues, to be too alarmist.
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“From my point of view I laugh about it. I certainly don’t need to be elected to have notoriety as a city councilor, I accepted the proposal of my friend the mayor Alberto Sasso with a spirit of service. And I wanted to start from the bottom, from the fight against the climate. but they are unable to dictate the agenda on the environment Antonio Guterres And Pope francescolet alone me”. A remarkable demonstration of humility, even if, Mercalli reveals, perhaps his adventure in politics may not be completely over: “I greens in the past I have been offered political positions many times, even at higher levels. There are also those he wanted me as a minister“. Who knows, after the storm a rainbow always appears somewhere.
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