World Mediterranean Day
A sea of history on which today we are writing a shameful rejection of diversity: inhumanity and neglect of biodiversity
The sea is life. The Mediterranean Sea has made the Italian peninsula play a leading role in history for thousands of years. It has enriched our culture and vocabulary with hundreds and hundreds of foreign words. It is in order to give continuity to this role as a link between different cultures that the European Union and twelve southern Mediterranean countries signed a Declaration of Global Partnership in Barcelona on 28 November 1995, with the aim of making the Mediterranean a common space of peace, stability and prosperity, through the strengthening of political and security dialogue, economic and financial, social and cultural cooperation. (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/IT)
Photo: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convenzione_di_Barcellona
WHY ARE WE CELEBRATING TODAY?
In fact, rather than the Day established by the Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Barcelona on 28 November 1995, we are giving prominence to the Day promoted, starting in 2014, by Earth Day Italia, ANCIS-LINK, ASC-CONI with the fundamental contribution of the Italian Navy, above all to raise awareness about the state of health of the Mare Nostrum and the dangers that threaten it. We are moved by the hope that the initiatives put in place by partnerships of/with civil society will be more effective than those of cooperation between Member States: suffice it to think of the fact that already in 1976, in Barcelona, the EU and 21 States bordering the Mediterranean gave birth to a precise Convention and Protocols with the main purpose of protecting the marine environment and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Mediterranean – this sea ‘in the middle of the earth’ – is a treasure trove of our planet’s marine biodiversity because, although it only has a surface area of around 1% of all the oceans, it is home to over 12,000 marine species, between 4 and 12% of the world’s marine biodiversity, and for this very reason it can be considered a climate change hotspot, i.e. it is one of the areas of the world that will suffer the most from rising temperatures precisely because it is one of the most vulnerable.
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We also celebrate it today because many Europeans link the Mediterranean and its southern neighbourhood only to conflicts, migrations and the transformation from mare nostrum to mare mostrum due to the inhumanity with which migrants crossing it are treated and the neglect of biodiversity, also impoverished by the abnormal temperatures of its waters.
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FORGIVE US MEDITERRANEANS FOR ALL YOU ENDURE FROM US DIS-HUMANS!
LET US TRULY TAKE CARE OF MARE NOSTRUM:
OF THOSE WHO LIVE IN IT AND THOSE WHO CROSS IT!
OUR MORAL AND BIOLOGICAL HUMANITY IS AT STAKE
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