«It is the story of secular resilience, of the ability to dialogue with the world from a pond. Ponds shouldn’t have existed over the centuries. Either they become land, or they become sea. Venice’s lagoon continues through the centuries as the Venetians moved the rivers and blocked the sea, a daunting operation, involving an enormous amount of investment. Thus, productive specialization, the economic base of Venice, was of high added value, capable of financing the enormous volume of investments. You don’t build these containers without a big investment.” So said Renato Brunetta, President of the ‘Venice World Capital of Sustainability’ Foundation, speaking at the opening of the first edition of the ‘Sustainability Biennial’ entitled ‘Mose and others: the defense of hangovers in the world’, organized and promoted by the Foundation in collaboration with The European House – Ambrosetti, Consorzio Venezia Nuova, CORILA and Vela.
From the Sala degli Squadratori of the Arsenale, the President added: “Venice did not become a world city, capital of the world, because it had gold mines or other raw materials. Venice has become a world city thanks to the intelligence of our parents. Time has changed the surrounding conditions: history, time, the discovery of the Americas, industrialization, new technologies, climate change. Venice, from a place of production of high added value goods, became a place of mere tourist use, of mass tourism. It’s not a bad thing in itself, but a bad thing like a monoculture that erases other cultures, other economies. As the economic base no longer exists, there is a risk of the economic base no longer existing and along with the anthropic base, the people».
Source: IL Tempo
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