La Strategia di bioeconomia. Biomassa, digitalizzazione e territori

The Bioeconomy Strategy of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION is in contradiction with the Bioeconomics compatible with life and nature theorized by GeorgescuRoegen. The Bioeconomy Strategy of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION is embodied in an industrial strategy characterized by the replacement of fossil fuels with organic sources for the production of goods and energy. It is based on the technocentric approach and the reductionist and utilitarian paradigm. It considers the territory as a ‘box’ full of resources to be exploited, without any consideration on objectives, scales, models and production chains. Therefore, this Strategy, far from proposing a new way of doing economics, rather establishes a ‘new’ way of doing industry, justifying the obvious ‘business-asusual’ as a ‘green’ and sustainable solution, without questioning economic growth and the extractivist model. In 2017, the Strategy was revised, highlighting the need for a review of the purpose and actions in the sense of a circular and sustainable bioeconomy and, in 2018, it was updated by adapting it to European priorities with particular regard to the New industrial policy and the process of digitization promoted by this. This update is analysed to verify any paradigmatic and operational changes compared to the 2012 Strategy, to assess the consistency of the expected results with respect to the objectives, as well as the possible territorial impacts. In this regard, we focus on the two key pillars on which the Strategy is based: the large-scale biomass production and the use of high technology. A particular study is dedicated to rare earths, indispensable minerals for the production of high technology and digitization.