All back to childhood

Published 19th October 2009 - 1 comments - 1222 views -

October 18th 2009, and not 23 (as I say in the video but now it is toooo late to change), the “Doors Open Day” of this year in the old city centre of Nuremberg had as main topic the climate change. The day was freezing and the atmosphere relaxed.

There was everything. To eat, to drink and even to dance, for the most active ones

Of course during the day I saw people just passing by and asking themselves what were they doing there, of course a lot of them didn’t know that such a day was organised in their city. I found anyway nice that the city is pushing on the citizen. They have to get to us (us as citizen - they as the public officials).

And I am beginning to believe that repetition is the solution.

Everyday should we be bombarded with catastrophic news and everyday we should face the fact that our life are in danger. Are we stupid? A bit I think. Are we without hope? I think if I give up now there is no sense of going on at all... Life, children, work, house, friends, nothing have sense anymore from the moment in which we stop to believe.

And I am afraid that after all these bombarding articles (that I read probably to get involved and find argument for my blog) something has changed.

So, 10 points to the city that still believe that even the most sceptics can be brainwashed in a good sense and can be made useful for the society.

It is like one of those old children stories, that one that we share all over the world with the same content but with different protagonist... I have the plot in my mind: once upon a time there was a king. The king was not happy with his life or probably wanted just to be more happy, so he decided he wanted more and more and more and more. Till one day he found himself poor and alone.

Something true is always behind it...

 

Category: Climate Reporting, | Tags: climate change, climate, video, people,

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Irene Sacchi
Nürnberg, Germany
Journalist of indigo magazine

I was born in Europe, more precisely in Viterbo, Italy. I am currently living in Nuremberg, Germany, but I will move out in November again, even if I still do not know the destination. I left Italy seven years ago, and I went to Spain for one year, enjoying the Erasmus project. I never went back to my country (apart for holidays). From Madrid I moved to Münster, north-west Germany for one year, then to Brussels, where I lived for 3 years and are now 2 years that I live in Nürnberg, back in Germany. I consider myself to be a true European. I studied language and literature at the University, Spanish and English, I speak Spanish with my German-Husband met in Spain during the Erasmus project but I live and work as a freelancer video-journalist in Germany. I work also for the pan European magazine indigo (www.indigomagazine.eu), where I am part of the management team and editor in chief of the Italian version.

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