Coronavirus: Manifesto Assisi, don't forget the lessons

 "Many lessons of these difficult days will not be forgotten. The centrality of health and research, the need to strengthen some public policies, the re-evaluation of the agro-food system and distribution, the role that smart-working and distance training can play also in the future, the importance both now and even more in the future of the proper functioning of the basic infrastructures that govern everyday life even in emergency situations ". The promoters of the Assisi Manifesto against the climate crisis write it in an open letter. Among them, the president of the Symbola Foundation, Ermete Realacci, the Custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, father Mauro Gambetti, the Director of San Francesco magazine, father Enzo Fortunato, the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini, the outgoing president of Confindustria, Vincenzo Boccia, the Enel CEO, Francesco Starace, and the Novamont CEO, Catia Bastioli. The new President of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, also signed the Assisi Manifesto during an initiative at Assolombarda last December.
    "We must work to ensure that the necessary recovery of life, in ours as in other countries, is oriented towards enhancing an economy and a society that is more human-sized and therefore more capable of the future - continues the letter -. One of the most important paragraphs important and courageous of Laudato Sì says: "Finance suffocates the real economy. We have not learned the lesson of the global financial crisis and very slowly we learn that of environmental deterioration." A risk that is also run in the face of the storm of the Coronavirus: there are conditions for this not to happen, for a new path to be taken with responsibility and concreteness, because 'there is nothing wrong with Italy that cannot be corrected with what is right in Italy' ".