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Editorial

exist. But it does: it is in our lungs and blood, in our heart and brains, though we
realize it only when we are short of it. Only at that point we take measures, and
sometimes it’s too late. The air, however, is over our heads and on top of the moun-
tains, in Copacabana and in London, on the Kilimangiaro and the Poles; it helps
turbines make jets fly, accordions play, bellows pump and men live.
But nowadays men are at risk, living in a sort of perennial balance: they risk
both physically and immediately for the pathologies caused by stale air, a common-
place which we hardly worry about; and a physically, again , hough they will real-
ize it later in time – within two or three generations, maybe – for what climate
changes related to carbon dioxide increase may bring about in terms of the general
balance of the Earth.
Therefore, man is precariously balanced within the Earth’s balance. And the
Earth will no longer risk to be precariously balanced until man won’t decide to be
first well balanced with himself and then with the world surrounding him. The air
first, naturally.

To the readers
This issue of Silvae, the CFS scientific journal, comes out later
than scheduled given to delays in the preparation of this publication
budget. We apologize to readers, subscribers, and those contributors
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