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Why has the recent debate on the science it’s part of our most surreal post-covid blabla, it’s easy to say. Counting for each other 741 million Europeans, skiers have fallen to a band calculated between 1 and 2 percent, which are part of the richest class, among which there are certainly numerous tribes of tax evaders-evaders. Still, skiing benefits from installations me track funded largely by states and regions with everyone’s tax dollars.
Reaching out to the supposed beneficiaries in the mountainous areas, there are almost 5,900 municipalities along the Alps where they live little bit more than a million and a half people. If we then look at the detailed studies, on the distribution by nation and by altitudes, more illuminating discoveries are made: in Italy only 23 thousand people live in areas above 1500 meters, almost 93 thousand between 1200 and 1499, so many above a thousand meters, and still a hundred thousand below, at altitudes where you can hardly ski anymore. The new ‘rebel’ administration of the Val d’Aosta region (126 thousand inhabitants) officially declares that around 75% of the population it is concentrated in the 28 municipalities that make up the non-mountainous central valley.
In short, when it is proclaimed that skiing guarantees ‘the survival of the alpine regions’ and that employs 400 thousand people, the facts are not taken into account, nor what destruction this particular model of tourism development entails, a very high mobility rate it is decisive not only for tourist users (increasingly run over) but also for labor, with the associated ecological damage.
Coming to the Cableway, assuming that a certain wealth is redistributed to the territory, making it ‘pour’ mostly into a few hands, we must consider that the cost is shared among all: make four accounts in the pockets of the new autonomist rebels in Aosta, this year the only one district of Weissmatten has accumulated a deficit of almost 500 thousand euro to Monterosa spa (with the Region as the majority shareholder and the Municipality of Gressoney with 40% of the tracks); there Matterhorn spa, which also this year declared a profit of 1 million and 600 thousand euros, has just received another provision of 10 thousand euros a day at a flat rate for the period open only to professional skiers; and demonstrate that with tourism the 150 million euros of the Sky Way of the Mont Blanc, as well as the maintenance and management costs, is pure provocation.
To this must be added the economic criticalities related to climate changes: The Piccolo San Bernardo cable car in La Thuile, which laudably publishes a transparent budget, records a 100 percent increase in costs in the last three years for ‘snowmaking maintenance’ and admits that it had to dump about 500 thousand liters of water in 2019.
Here, the pandemic emergency should also push us to rethink a truly alternative alpine economy, which goes beyond the destructive and unfair tourist model centered on alpine skiing. In recent days, some illustrious mountaineers have also spoken about it, such as Reinhold messner me Paolo Cognetti. It could be another big challenge among the plans that can be financed with Next GenerationEU.
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