Abbiamo bisogno gli uni degli altri. E perci, per favore, ricordatevi anche di me con tenerezza, perch svolga il compito che mi stato affidato per il bene degli altri, di tutti, di tutti voi, di tutti noi.
As I meet, or lend an ear to those who are sick, to the migrants who face terrible hardships in search of a brighter future, to prison inmates who carry a hell of pain inside their hearts, and to those, many of them young, who cannot find a job, I often find myself wondering: "Why them and not me?"
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I, myself, was born in a family of migrants; my father, my grandparents, like many other Italians, left for Argentina and met the fate of those who are left with nothing. I could have very well ended up among today's "discarded" people.
First and foremost, I would love it if this meeting could help to remind us that we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone.
Many of us, nowadays, seem to believe that a happy future is something impossible to achieve. While such concerns must be taken very seriously, they are not invincible. They can be overcome when we don't lock our door to the outside world.
And this brings me to my second message. How wonderful would it be if the growth of scientific and technological innovation would come along with more equality and social inclusion. How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us.
How wonderful would it be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were not simply reduced to social work, and became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples and countries.
Only by educating people to a true solidarity will we be able to overcome the "culture of waste," which doesn't concern only food and goods but, first and foremost, the people who are cast aside by our techno-economic systems which, without even realizing it, are now putting products at their core, instead of people.
Solidarity is a term that many wish to erase from the dictionary. Solidarity, however, is not an automatic mechanism. It cannot be programmed or controlled. It is a free response born from the heart of each and every one. Yes, a free response!
When one realizes that life, even in the middle of so many contradictions, is a gift, that love is the source and the meaning of life, how can they withhold their urge to do good to another fellow being?
In order to do good, we need memory, we need courage and we need creativity. And I know that TED gathers many creative minds. Yes, love does require a creative, concrete and ingenious attitude. Good intentions and conventional formulas, so often used to appease our conscience, are not enough. Let us help each other, all together, to remember that the other is not a statistic or a number. The other has a face. The "you" is always a real presence, a person to take care of.
There is a parable Jesus told to help us understand the difference between those who'd rather not be bothered and those who take care of the other. I am sure you have heard it before. It is the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
When Jesus was asked: "Who is my neighbor?" - namely, "Who should I take care of?" - he told this story, the story of a man who had been assaulted, robbed, beaten and abandoned along a dirt road. Upon seeing him, a priest and a Levite, two very influential people of the time, walked past him without stopping to help. After a while, a Samaritan, a very much despised ethnicity at the time, walked by. Seeing the injured man lying on the ground, he did not ignore him as if he weren't even there. Instead, he felt compassion for this man, which compelled him to act in a very concrete manner. He poured oil and wine on the wounds of the helpless man, brought him to a hostel and paid out of his pocket for him to be assisted.
Fortunately, there are also those who are creating a new world by taking care of the other, even out of their own pockets. Mother Teresa actually said: "One cannot love, unless it is at their own expense."
Now you might tell me, "Sure, these are beautiful words, but I am not the Good Samaritan, nor Mother Teresa of Calcutta." On the contrary: we are precious, each and every one of us. Each and every one of us is irreplaceable in the eyes of God. Through the darkness of today's conflicts, each and every one of us can become a bright candle, a reminder that light will overcome darkness, and never the other way around.
To Christians, the future does have a name, and its name is Hope. Feeling hopeful does not mean to be optimistically nave and ignore the tragedy humanity is facing. Hope is the virtue of a heart that doesn't lock itself into darkness, that doesn't dwell on the past, does not simply get by in the present, but is able to see a tomorrow.
Hope is the door that opens onto the future. Hope is a humble, hidden seed of life that, with time, will develop into a large tree. It is like some invisible yeast that allows the whole dough to grow, that brings flavor to all aspects of life.
And that individual can be you. And then there will be another "you," and another "you," and it turns into an "us." And so, does hope begin when we have an "us?" No. Hope began with one "you." When there is an "us," there begins a revolution.
What is tenderness? It is the love that comes close and becomes real. It is a movement that starts from our heart and reaches the eyes, the ears and the hands. Tenderness means to use our eyes to see the other, our ears to hear the other, to listen to the children, the poor, those who are afraid of the future. To listen also to the silent cry of our common home, of our sick and polluted earth. Tenderness means to use our hands and our heart to comfort the other, to take care of those in need.
God himself descended into Jesus to be on our level. This is the same path the Good Samaritan took. This is the path that Jesus himself took. He lowered himself, he lived his entire human existence practicing the real, concrete language of love.
The future of humankind isn't exclusively in the hands of politicians, of great leaders, of big companies. Yes, they do hold an enormous responsibility. But the future is, most of all, in the hands of those people who recognize the other as a "you" and themselves as part of an "us."
Saranno portati avanti tre principali settori di ricerca: 1) caratterizzazione fisica e modellizzazione dell'attivit esplosiva e del degassamento; 2) studi tessiturali e petrochimici dei prodotti eruttati; 3) analisi morfologica della terrazza craterica e delle aree circostanti. Per ognuna di queste tematiche, verranno sviluppate e applicate nuove metodologie. La chiave del successo del progetto sar la raccolta di dati integrati ad alta risoluzione spaziale e temporale dai tre tipi di ricerca e le loro analisi congiunte in un database condiviso. Le scale temporali conformi ai cambiamenti dei precursori saranno esplorate effettuando raccolte sistematiche di dati alla scala di giorni-mesi, integrate con campagne intensive di raccolta dati con acquisizione continua attraverso procedure semi-automatiche in condizioni di sicurezza.
Per indagare le dinamiche esplosive, durante il progetto verranno: 1) intensificate le campagne multiparametriche e sviluppato un sistema di imaging semi-automatico per registrazioni continue di lunga durata; 2) installate una nuova serie di microfoni infrasonici e acustici, collegati e implementati alla rete di monitoraggio geofisica esistente; 3) implementate un sensore a ultrasuoni che pu rivelare cambiamenti nel rilascio di gas, generazione di sovrappressione e cambiamenti nelle propriet reologiche/meccaniche delle rocce nell'area craterica; 4) studiate la composizione chimica dei gas magmatici tra e durante le esplosioni mediante spettrometria OP-FTIR e nuove telecamere UV ad alta velocit. Queste nuove indagini multiparametriche aumenteranno le possibilit di catturare le transizioni tra stili ed energia eruttivi e forniranno un database pi robusto per la correlazione incrociata di parametri differenti. I dati osservati forniranno modelli di flusso multifase che consentiranno di studiare i possibili scenari esplosivi attesi.
A tal scopo, applicheremo tre tecniche di telerilevamento che, opportunamente integrate o combinate, consentiranno di riprodurre in modo sistematico l'ambiente vulcanico e sui suoi cambiamenti nel tempo: 1) Acquisizione satellitare Pancromatica e Multispettrale in modalit stereo; 2) LiDAR (Light and Detection Ranging); 3) UAV-SfM (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Structure from Motion).
At Stromboli volcano, the ordinary activity with explosions that eject ballistics up to a few hundred metres high, alternates with more hazardous activities, including lava flows and major or paroxysmal explosions, with eruption plumes up to several kilometres high. In historical records and recent cases from 2002 to 2019, changes in the ordinary activity heralded the onset of eruptive crises that included hazardous events. So far, precursory changes in the ordinary activity have been documented mainly concerning the frequency, intensity, and source location of the explosions, as recorded by the continuous visual and geophysical monitoring network. However, magma properties, conduit geometry, and their relationship with the explosion dynamics are relevant aspects of the ordinary activity, but have only been investigated spottly, despite their potential for answering key questions such as: what changes in the shallow plumbing system anticipate paroxysmal explosions and lava flows? And on what time scales?
Characterisation of ash particles emitted at Stromboli during ordinary activity, highlighted that when the intensity of the explosions increases, the fragmented material becomes more fluidal and glassy with respect to periods of low-intensity activity, characterised by the emission of both fluidal and dense, blocky clasts. This is related to the mechanisms of magma fragmentation, which are influenced by the physical and chemical properties of the magma (or the arrival of new one) and its ascent rate/flux. In turn, changes in magma level and explosion rates control the morphological evolution of the crater terrace. Fully exploring ordinary activity requires the integration of data from different sources, in order to obtain objective and measurable parameters to be considered in the definition of the ordinary activity. Such a definition is required to identify the prodromes of a transition to more hazardous activity.
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