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Guido Viale

Guido Viale was born in Tokyo in 1943 and lives in Milan. He participated in the student movement of 1968 in Turin and was a member of the Lotta Continua group until 1976. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Turin. He worked as a teacher, preceptor, translator, journalist, researcher and consultant. He has carried out studies and economic research with various companies and worked on cooperation projects in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. He has been a member of the technical and scientific committee of the Italian Agency for Environmental Protection. Among his publications: A Disposable World, Everybody in Taxi, At Home, Government of Garbage, Life and Death of the Car, Virtues that Change the World. With Editions NdA Press of Rimini he published: Evidence of a different world, Ecological conversion, Europe can be reinvented together with refugees and migrants. With Interno4 Editiors he published in 2017, Slessico Familiare, Words worn out - open perspectives, a repertoire for the times to come. In Interno4 Editions he also published in 2018 an updated edition of his important book on the 1968 protest movement.

Dealing with the climate

The “full agreement” between Giorgia Meloni and Joe Biden is not surprising: unconditional support for the war in Ukraine leaves no room for differences of any kind. In addition, Giorgia has also signed up for the war – for now…

Ukraine war and collateral damage

Since the start of the war with Russia, the Ukrainian military has fired an average of 9,000 cannon shells a day – nearly half a million so far, enough to have depleted the stockpiles of the United States and many…

Ecological conversion, an urgent and inevitable choice

The Earth needs an ecological conversion. We, humans, must do it without waiting for it to proceed without us: we are the ones responsible for its degradation, pursued against the rest of living things almost to the extreme. But we…

There is no alternative to war: a dogma to be questioned

It is likely painful for everyone to see how far over the years our ways of thinking have drifted not only from each other but also from what we took for granted, perhaps rashly, in a period of intense collective…

Climate crisis – is there still a tomorrow?

We are witnessing the end of the world. Not of the planet Earth, which will continue to revolve around the sun for billions of years, but of the world understood as the condition of life of human beings and especially…

Coronavirus and climate crisis: nothing will be the same again

The pounding and discomposed mobilization of politicians and media against the coronavirus reminds of Peter and the Wolf: what could we ever do to communicate a real emergency, when the climate crisis at the gates will begin to have a…

How many Green New Deals are there

Faced with the evidence of the climate crisis, deniers no longer deny the rise of global temperatures, but rather contest its anthropogenic origin, in order to continue with business as usual. As Naomi Klein explained, the “Lords of oil” know…

Climate, migrants, Rojava: a turn

Wars are waged to get hold of oil reserves and then that oil is used to carry out other wars (world emissions from military equipment amount to 15% of total emissions, but are not accounted for in the Paris Agreement).…

An alliance for climate and justice

Geographical and historical reasons make Italy the Mediterranean’s centre of gravity. The country has been the meeting point for civilisations – both past and present – that border Mare Nostrum.  Those same reasons mean that Italy is today a natural…

Children saving the world?

On Friday 15 March, millions and millions of students from thousands of schools across the world will go on strike, filling the streets with marches. They will be joined by many other citizens who share their anger and aims. The…