(Telestock) – “We need interventions and resources as soon as possible to reduce the existing inequalities in Italy, where some social categories are effectively excluded from basic energy services: a situation that puts their well-being at risk, forcing them to give up necessary and incompressible services”. This is underlined by Codacons in a note.
In 2024, women (and couples with children) – the note continues – fyear more difficult to pay bills and, in some cases, even to heat their own home. A very serious fact, a gender imbalance that adds to the many territorial, economic, social imbalances that are increasingly dividing users into different categories, with rights “variables” depending on different personal possibilities.
The bloodlettings of recent years in terms of energy expenditure “they have evidently weighed more heavily on some categories of users, particularly vulnerable, reinforcing unacceptable disparities and crystallizing a medieval situation.
In Italy, energy poverty – the inability to enjoy essential and indispensable energy goods and services – has become a dramatic phenomenon that must be reckoned with. Another side of the coin compared to the enormous inequalities that characterize our society, with disruptive effects in terms of physical and psychological well-being. Without forgetting the impact on minors, putting at risk the concrete possibility of healthy development for girls, boys and adolescents”.
“Energy poverty may be the priority for almost all political parties, but today the situation is reminiscent of the Middle Ages, with immense imbalances among the population and concrete repercussions on people’s health”, declares President Carlo Rienzi. “Urgent action is needed to reduce inequalities and ensure all citizens have access to basic energy services”he concludes.