“Blue gold. Stories of water and climate change” by Edoardo Borgomeo (Editori Laterza, 159 pages, 13.30 euros) is the popular science book that this year wins the Asimov Prize. The announcement was made at the conclusion of the eighth edition of the popular science award promoted by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. The book was selected by a jury of over 13,000 students from 320 schools, who chose the volume from among the other five finalists: ” The second principle” by Marco Malvaldi, “In a flight of starlings” by Giorgio Parisi, “Serendipity” by Telmo Pievani, “Crocodiles at the North Pole and ice at the Equator” by Antonello Provenzale and “Time: the dream of killing Chronos “, by Guido Tonelli’ .
“The author with a common language, enriched with metaphors, idioms and sometimes ironic expressions takes the reader to nine different places on Earth where water is the protagonist”, writes Matilda Ceccarello, a student of the scientific high school in her review Eugene Curiel of Padua. “These apparently different stories – he continues – are all united by a concept, which Borgomeo takes up again in each chapter, namely that of ‘hydrophilia’, or rather the bond that we should all establish with water, giving it value, without wasting it or pollute it”.
Andrea Rubino, from the Convitto Nazionale Domenico Cotugno classical high school in L’Aquila, wrote: “reading this essay was enlightening for me; I was a city boy, I thought that the water flowed in one direction only, now I know it’s not like that, I know it’s always trying to go back to where it came from, it’s useless to fight it or be afraid of it. We have to learn to live symbiotically with it, we have to understand deeply what hydrophilia means”.
Source: Ansa
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