For the past two weeks, I’ve been hanging in and around Naples and met with family in the hills far south of that tourist trap known as the Amalfi Coast. For the unacquainted, these destinations ar…
. They call it naturale. I call it crazy but I come from a generation of Italian Americans that shunned much of this amazing culture. I never learned the language — nor many of the traditions except pasta on Sunday and a few curse words.English isn’t widely spoken in these parts. So consulting my Google Translate, I ask in Italian what’s up with the AC situation — and the friggin’ heat. AC they tell me is bad for you.
OK, maybe the southern Italians are just that much sturdier than the average American or the dude working The New York Times climate-catastrophe beat. I’d like to think so, given my ancestry. All those invasions over the years, the Greeks, Romans, Normans, North Africans made people like me genetically superhuman when it comes to the dreaded climate change.
And yet, most of the Mezzogiorno people still work hard. My relatives are bus drivers, carpenters and cops. They put their kids through college as computer programmers and lawyers. The people are still amazing and resilient.I’m no climate-change denier.
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