When Swiss TV said that in Naples we will all die, very badly
The RSI documentary on the Campi Flegrei Supervolcano has become the recurring nightmare with every earthquake
NAPLES – The Swiss said so. Even if in the meantime the RSI documentary which prefigured the destruction of Naples by means of the magmatic explosion of the Campi Flegrei supervolcano no longer exists on YouTube, it has remained in the popular imagination. Now that the earth trembles, e trembles more and more often, the thought returns (a little lateral, hidden shamelessly in the less rational portion of the mind) to those images: Piazza del Plebiscito in flames, the burning clouds melting the city, the the only hill of San Martino spared (it is not clear why, given that the ashes should fall plumb from the stratosphere) in a post-atomic landscape. With Vesuvius, this time blameless, as the backdrop to the total devastation. It’s as if that had become the nightmare of Neapolitans, an idea (totally out of scientific grace) of what could be and fortunately isn’t. When it went viral there was talk, not surprisingly, of malicious induction of panic. And here we are: every shock, a shiver.
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Despite the whole rosary of corollary spells, “Naples, the supervolcano that threatens Europe” returns like a constant reverberation. 42 minutes and 24 seconds during which, in a crescendo of tense anxiety, the experts spoke and the graphic animation did the rest: the Phlegraean Fields described simplistically as an enormous boiling pot, which “looms over the whole of southern Italy . “Some scientists believe that the Campi Flegrei are responsible for the disappearance of Neanderthal man, 40 thousand years later there are signs of awakening, the catastrophe could occur at any moment”. The tone was this. The Swiss had seen it through: bradyseism is the best possible driving force for a TV product. Work a little at a time. And it leaves an indelible mark on people’s fear.
