The crisis in the countryside is not about “environmental dogmatism”, no matter how much Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal recite it in Congress. The farmers have not taken to the streets to attack the Government's environmental policies, beyond the fact that they have demanded less bureaucracy and equal treatment with the demands of the EU with third countries. The PP and Vox want to capitalize on the protests in the Spanish countryside and even turn around the United Nations 2030 Agenda, as if Sanchismo had invented it, and warn that it is a death threat for the Spanish countryside. Without saying that if their objectives are not met, the planet will not be able to stand it either and we will all go to hell.
Four years ago, 145 experts from fifty countries produced a report commissioned by the UN in which they warned that “nature is declining at a rate unprecedented in human history”; that “75% of the planet's land surface has been seriously modified by human action” (and 66% of the marine surface) and that “one million plant and animal species are in danger of extinction.”
It is a mistake to confront farmers with defenders of nature, among other reasons because they are defenders too. And farmers should be careful not to be politically manipulated, because their righteous protests have opened the eyes of populists of all stripes. Or does anyone doubt that a good part of natural disasters – including drought – and meteorological changes are not the result of the generation of more waste and more greenhouse gases?
Farmers demand fair prices, control of imports from outside the EU and less bureaucracy, in no case the lack of control of the planet. The last line of the film Don't look up was invented by DiCaprio and the screenwriter decided to incorporate it because he couldn't have a better ending before the world exploded: "If you think about it, we actually had everything." The crisis in the countryside is not about environmental dogmatism. We deserve a right that is more sensitive to the environment. So that we do not repeat, sooner rather than later, DiCaprio's words just before everything blows up.
