from Black Shuck (see bottom of post for details) translation and notes by Earth First! Journal [Originally titled “Turnout (funeral): Of the referendum and environmental disasters” in reference to the defeated April 17 referendum to repeal the law which allows existing drilling concessions within 12 miles of the coast to remain valid until the fields are depleted.] In conjunction with the referendum on drills, inscribed in the “bread and circuses” of those who still deceive themselves thinking democracy has value, black spot is poured into the river bed Polcevera, in Gen-the-salt-of-the-earth-ova, and now reaches the sea, suffocating all life. [On April 14, 2016, a refinery near Genoa leaked hundreds of tons of oil into the river Polcevera, reaching the Mediterranean.] Whether it’s oil, as in the case of drills, or crude oil, as in the case of Cornigliano in Genoa, what might seem a mere coincidence is nothing more that the unequivocal outcome of a “magnificent” progress destined to implode, to self-destruct, and to decree the destruction of the living. In Liguria, the beaches recite memento mori ecocide: the sea, depending on the currents and tides, vomits blackness on the sand, regurgitating chemical poisons such as factories Stoppani–which closed in […]
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