The cost of the “green turn” will fall on citizens

Dear director,
by 2050 we should have zero emissions in homes: either with photovoltaics or with photovoltaics and/or external insulation. “Where to find the 60 thousand euros per family?” says Giorgetti minister. Quite a problem. If nothing is done, families will have to pay bills that will certainly be increasingly higher, or the State will have to commit money to control prices as has already been done (12 billion spent in 2022). Considering that a family now spends an average of 2,000 euros per year on electricity and gas, in 25 years they (or the regulating state) will pay the amount of the intervention estimated by Giorgetti, with the aggravating circumstance of perennial pollution. Or not?

Eng. Graziano Burattin
Due Carrare (PD)

Dear reader,

I am unable to refute or endorse the numbers you indicate. But the substance does not change: even if it were “only” 30 thousand euros per family and not 60 thousand as calculated by minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, the cost of this green turning point and the zero emissions objective in our homes will largely fall on the shoulders of citizens. Either directly, i.e. by forcing them to personally bear the necessary expenses, or indirectly, through forms of taxation, to allow the State to find the necessary resources. But this is just one of the many issues to be resolved and the contradictions that the “green turn”, or rather a very ideological approach to it, confronts us with. Let’s also think about electric cars: a very recent survey confirmed the lack of interest on the part of Italian consumers in purchasing and using them. The reason? The main one is their too high cost. We are therefore at the same point: it has been decided that, to safeguard the planet and therefore ourselves, it is necessary to change. Habits, production systems, mentality. There are several doubts, even among experts, about whether the paths chosen to achieve these objectives are always the most effective. But, apart from a few minorities, the underlying principle is not in question: many of our current lifestyles are not very sustainable and compatible with the future of the earth. Well. But in order to move from theories and “objectives” to practice, in order to delve into reality from debates and conferences, this “green turning point” must be understood and above all shared by citizens. And the best way is certainly not to impose it on them through directives and also force them to pay out of their own pockets.

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