"Breath is the most intimate, deepest and most rooted connection with the planet that hosts us. Altering biodiversity, undermining and destroying the balance of the biosphere puts our survival, as individual human beings, ours and others at risk. species".
It is one of the eight points of the 'Breath Charter' which from 22 September, the day of the equinox, will be online on the website www.lacittadiisaura.it in various languages, including Arabic, Hindi and Tibetan, thanks to the voluntary collaboration of translators and Cultural institutes in Italy.
Federparchi has signed up to the 'Charter', published at the end of the book 'The sense of breath', edited by Luciano Minerva and Ilaria Drago, in the bookshop for Castelvecchi from 24 September. 'author for the dissemination of culture and reading in parks.
The 'Breath Charter' presents in eight points the ethical, environmental and social issues linked to "our most precious resource", the breath, in fact, which in 2020, with Covid 19, suffered "a sudden attack in every part of the Earth, comparable only to those imagined by science fiction "as Minerva points out in the preface.
'The sense of breath' collects the reflections and thoughts on this theme by thirty-one authors, from Paolo Fresu to Erri De Luca and from Giuseppe Cederna to Alessandro Bergonzoni.
"All of us living beings have the natural right to breathe pure air and the duty to conserve and preserve it for us and future generations" underlines the first point of the Charter which is an invitation to become aware of ourselves and of our relationships with the world through the breath held, blocked by fear in the days of the lockdown and in the age of masks.
The urgency of a collective reflection was born, explains Minerva, from the sudden arrival of a virus that "made the breath of a society sick with the economy that has deified the Gross Domestic Product, capable of infinitely increasing social inequalities. . It affected the breathing of all of us, forced to close ourselves in our homes, to keep us at a distance from our fellow men, to see in every human being a potential enemy ".
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