[Progress and new environmental emergencies: the earth at the limits of survival?]

This paper highlights the risks to which our planet as well as mankind are exposed as a result of the fast and dyshomogenous technological progress. Although this progress has permitted, on the one hand, greater prosperity (however not equally distributed among different peoples), on the other, it has changed the balance between the forces of Nature, thus threatening both our the planet's chances of survival. We are already on the alert; therefore, if we want to avoid dangerous consequences for future generations, we needs to ponder on this problem. We have to stop the "culture of arms", that every year dissipates the resources of industrialized countries. Consequently, let us aim at world peace in order to solve our problems and to guarantee healthy progress for the rising generations, without endangering the capability of the future ones.