E’ stata un’intensa, bellissima giornata quella trascorsa lunedi 8 Aprile 2019 con i giovani di alcune scuole italiane riunitisi per celebrare il Jane Goodall’s Roots&Shoots Italia Day 2019 durante il National Geographic Festival delle Scienze di Roma all’Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma.
Dopo aver seguito la conferenza della astrofisica Carolyn Porco, ospite d’eccezione del National Geographic Festival delle Scienze, circa 300 ragazzi che hanno partecipato ai progetti del JGI Italia si sono riuniti nel Teatro Studio Borgna dell’Auditorium per condividere i loro lavori.
Tanti splendidi cortometraggi, pensati e realizzati da Alessandra Abruzzo, studentessa Roots & Shoots della 5G del Liceo Classico e Musicale “G. Palmieri” di Lecce, dai ragazzi del Liceo Classico e Linguistico Aristofane di Roma, e dalla scuola media Cesare De Cupis di Roma.
Il nostro rapporto con la natura, l’importanza di agire per contrastare lo sfruttamento insostenibile delle risorse naturali, l’invasione della plastica, il traffico illegale di specie protette sono alcuni dei temi trattati nei report video, nei comics, nelle interviste di questa edizione 2019 del Festival italiano Jane Goodall’s Roots&Shoots.
Oltre dodici lavori sono stati presentati tra cui anche testi, performance teatrali, canzoni e brevi ed intensi spot di pochi minuti per veicolare il messaggio più importante:
ognuno di noi può fare qualcosa per fermare degrado ambientale e ingiustizia sociale, insieme possiamo farcela!
Ma non solo proiezioni: anche splendidi testi scritti, musicati, e cantati da Daniele Bianconi studente della V A dell’Istituto “De Pinedo Colonna” di Roma!
E c’è anche il contributo di Sofia Barda, della 4 B del Liceo Aristofane di Roma, che ha scelto le parole che compongono questo brano:
OUR PLASTIC WORLD
I never really realized what was happening until one day I researched “plastic” on google and this is what I found… I was really shocked I had no idea what was actually happening, and is getting worse every day… animals are dying ,the earth where we live in is suffering, our homes are in danger. And we are doing nothing about it.
I would like to have children one day, and I would like to teach them to follow their dreams to travel around the world and to discover new things just like I would like to do. I’ll teach them that this world is amazing, and they will believe me, so they will start looking around and discovering that our world is not as beautiful as their mummy said. And then? What willI say to them? It is our fault we ruined your life, your present. Because we were too selfish to realize that what we were doing was going to affect you, so we just stood there watching the world fall apart.
No. It is not possible.
I’d like them to see the world with all the wonderful things it can offer, and I don’t want them to deal with problems that were caused by us. And besides, there might not be time for them to save the planet we contributed to destroy.
Now is the time. We need to act now. It is already late.
There is no other way. We are destroying are own life and the one of our children, nieces and nephews.
I am 18 years old and I love my country and the world I love in.. I have many dreams. And I refuse to think that my world one day, very soon is going to become a big ball of plastic.
Do you ever think about how perfect nature is?
Every thing has it’s own cycle, every thing goes it’s own perfect way, your body was built with everything it needs to survive, to regenerate and to heal. This is our one and only perfect planet. Don’t you think we should care about it? We might think it is not a thing that interest us, but do you realize that we are not apart from nature we are a part of it. It is our only home and we must protect it, it is up to us to change the flow.
Our habits must change, I’m not asking you to avoid every sort of plastic, because, in the world we live in, it is practically impossible, though we could just change our routine, reducing the use of plastic, reusing it, recycling it, and I promise it takes nothing, it is so simple and yet it could change the world, but we need to start right now, please, help us to save our future! Don’t put your profit above people!
Thank you.
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Grazie a tutti i partecipanti: a tutti gli studenti e agli insegnanti, coordinati da Annalisa Comes per gli Istituti De Pinedo Colonna e Alberti e da Alba Sannino per il Liceo Aristofane, a tutti i tecnici e gli organizzatori della giornata!
Un ringraziamento particolare al National Geographic che, per il secondo anno consecutivo, ci ha ospitato all’interno del National Goegraphic Festival delle Scienze 2019.
