Green. Today this is the watchword for labeling everything related to the environment and what is called "eco-sustainable". Let me be clear: the environment and its protection are very important values. Precisely for this reason it makes no sense to call them with a term of another language, which among other things tells a color that we also have in Italy. Indeed, we have it in the flag. And then "green" wants to tell a world we had long before the arrival of English in the boot. And that it was much more genuine.
When no one used the word green ...
However, when none of our grandparents knew what the word "green" means, some things happened:
- We walked. Even if there were already cars, the rule for getting around, even in the city, was: walking. Running several kilometers a day was normal for everyone. Today, when we are "green", we take the car to visit the neighbor.
- People made the vegetable garden. In each country house, someone from the family took the trouble to grow vegetables for the house. There was no concept of "bio". They ate the dirty vegetables of the earth that you yourself had hoed.
- It was recycled. The children "inherited" the clothes, shoes and games of their older brothers and with a single batch of objects they raised three generations of children. Now that we do "recycling" we have only one child per couple but we consume more objects than once was done in three entire generations.
- It was in the middle of nature. Anyone, from an early age, was used to knowing the scent of trees, the light of the sea. Nature was a teacher of sensoriality and life. Today we are chasing the smell of concrete.
- We knew the animals. In the farmyards of the countryside many families had chickens, dogs, cows, some even horses. People lived in close contact with animals, they didn't have the theoretical knowledge of a documentary. Today the only animal we interact with is the dog we keep at home and which we treat like a child.
And we didn't call all this “green”.
