“Do simple things … if a title does not come it is useless to fix with words games. Come on the news, at least the reader understands …”. So years ago (several), a “expert” colleague explained practicing journalists in the news to us as the pieces were holding. And in fact the “regolina” of doing simple things always works. And not only in the editorial office.

Let’s take the heat. It is an absurd heat these days and in the sun it really is difficult to resist. But if one is lucky enough to walk or move in a tree -lined avenue, the situation is not so dramatic. A little coolness finds it compatibly with the fact that in the summer it is usually hot and you have to make a reason for it. The trees make the difference: where there are there you are fresher, where there are no one dies of heat. Simple no?

So simple that trees should be in the first place in the speeches of environmentalists, Of the “Green” junta, of those who preach on climate change, of those who tear their clothes when they see a “old” motorcycle circular, by those who are convinced that the world can only be saved by pedaling. But no. The trees, as explained a few days ago the councilor for green of the municipality of Milan Elena Grandi, are “unsuitable” for the city. Above all, the secular ones are unsuitable, that is, those that make the most shadow, and the plan seems to be to replace them with reduced stem plants more easily manageable as regards maintenance and care.

To think badly it would be said that, for a municipality very attentive to the accounts, the small trees are even more convenient But this is another speech that makes the pair, among other things, with the fact that in many parks the grass is no longer cut, officially because you want to preserve the ecosystem … but so much. Returning to simple things it must therefore be said that for a “green” administration, green, ca va sans sayshould be on top of thoughts and instead from Piazza San Babila, in Piazza Cordusio, to Bovisa the trees have disappeared. Not even a shrub. The suspicion is that Milan is becoming an environmentalist model of metropolis especially “fiscal”. Where with taxes, fines, areas B, C, Ztl, gates, cameras, prohibitions for Euro 0, 1, 2, contingent entrances, season tickets and other complications tends to discourage harmful practices for the environment but above all to derive money. Simple no?