Legamnbiente intervenes on crash of a tree of high stem in Piazza Duomo. “It is spontaneous to question, in such cases, – writes Legambiente – on what the causes of the crash may have been, which occurred in rather unusual circumstances, given the absence of particularly violent weather conditions, nor, in this case, of obvious constraints around the roots of the tree, given the turnover of the flowerbed in which it was located. Specific case, given the dynamic, it can be observed that evidently the crash was due to a subsidence of the radical system and not of the stem; Taking advantage of the circumstance to reiterate some general and yet essential considerations “.
Legambiente underlines that “the disciplines that deal with the evaluation of the stability of the trees are not exact sciences, but are based on a series of essentially probabilistic assessments, based on observations and technical parameters often not easy to observe (e.g. the state of the radical systems). It is therefore good to reiterate that the” zero risk “for trees in the city does not exist, or rather there is only in the absence of trees. However, that this risk goes on the one hand reduced as much as possible (through a prosecution, constant, far -sighted and competent care of plants) and on the other consciously assumed both by the administration and by citizenship. And in the consciousness of every citizen) it is the benefit: the absence of a tree brings less evident, but extremely real to the health and well -being of citizens and urban ecosystem. It is necessary to look at the statistics and compare the number of these victims (a few units per year on a national scale) with the direct and indirect victims of those “urban evils” from which our cities are affected: air pollution, high temperatures and relative mortality, not least, squalor and ugly. In support of physical, psychological health and at the end of the life of citizenship (they act on the improvement of the microclimate, limitation of the phenomenon of the heat islands, carbon seizure, noise attenuation, air purification, capture of fine dust, oxygen production). care, but also greater consideration of their value; nor can it be concerned with regards systematically on modest plants that are certainly suitable for certain urban contexts and must be integrated into the green complex, but which cannot replace the unavoidable role of the great trees. Effects that we already touch with your hand, the care, management and enhancement of urban green are not “luxuries” for beautiful environmental souls but services for citizenship, essential as the disposal of waste and public transport “.
“Maybe – we don’t know yet – this is not the case of the pine of Piazza Duomo, but it must be said and knowing that, in Messina as elsewhere, The bad state in which many of our trees are poured It is largely caused by a disastrous management (so -called senseless “pruning” and repeated more years, destruction of the radical apparatus etc.) or by an “non -management”, repeated over the years and whose effects are seen and drags over time, then bringing one day to the “inevitable” outcome of the crash or of the reduction … what to do? Meanwhile, to widen our view and our perspective a little, to understand for example, to return to our pine tree or rather to its flowerbed, which even if it is very “cute”, an English meadow irrigated all summer in a city on the Mediterranean (with the water problems that we are not remembering) no, it is not an example of good management but only an flashy sugar. For years our club has been trying to remind the administrations that follow one another that there are fundamental tools for the management of the green of which our city is still without. At what point are we with the municipal regulation of urban green? And with the green floor? Everything has been silent for years … without these two tools – whose definition as far as we are concerned must absolutely involve the city as much as the most qualified technical skills in the sector – the management of green in Messina will remain at best in the hands of the more or less willing or ignorant councilor and technician on duty, of this or that project, without a perspective, without a vision, without a long -term plan. We would like to speak of this and more with the councilor for the branch but despite our various requests for meeting we have not received any feedback. We could then begin to have more attention than the associations and citizens report and propose “.