Mare. Viaggio Intorno alla Sardegna. A Journey Around Sardinian Sea
(in reprint)

I would like for once that we could be able to look at the sea that makes Sardinia an island and its coasts for what they are: articulated, complex, diversified fragments that, when put together, tell stories of continuous evolution, with its very long times, but also with the sudden transformations, today more than ever. I would like the sea, the coasts not to be given a historical, anthropological, mercantilist connotation. I would like the landscapes, the shapes, the colors, the myriad of organisms to be looked at as a natural whole, not as something to be taken, exploited, used without restraint. I would like it to become clear that the nature of this planet has overcome unimaginable crises and will also overcome the present one to which we, as a human community as a whole, are subjecting it. I would like wonder and beauty to be the feelings that translate into facts. I would like to stop the now indistinct chatter about conservation, about sustainability, about the contrast to global climate change, made up of streams of good intentions that get lost in the enormous black hole of a world where everything is mercantile. I would like to start transforming words into principles, and principles into concrete actions, into a paradigm shift.I would like it to be understood that if we do not change the paradigm, it will not be the planet that will suffer, but the human communities, precisely those that live along the coasts, starting from the poorer.In this, indeed, Sardinia is a laboratory for what the coasts and the sea tell of the past and for what they prefigure for the future.