The protest is not about that

The farming crisis is not about "environmental dogmatism", no matter how much Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal recite it as a duo in Congress.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
08 February 2024 Thursday 03:58
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The protest is not about that

The farming crisis is not about "environmental dogmatism", no matter how much Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal recite it as a duo in Congress. Farmers have not taken to the streets to attack the environmental policies of the Central Government, beyond 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 of the Spanish camp and even turn the 2030 Agenda on its head at the United Nations, as if Sanchism had invented it, and warn that it is a death threat for the Spanish camp. It goes without saying that if their goals are not met, the planet will not be able to withstand it either and we will all go to hell.

Four years ago, 145 experts from fifty countries made a report commissioned by the UN in which they warned that "nature is declining on a global scale 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 compare the farmers with the defenders of nature, among other reasons because they too are. And farmers should be careful not to be manipulated politically, because their righteous protests have opened the eyes of populists of all kinds. Or maybe someone doubts that much of the natural disasters – including drought – and weather changes are not the result of the generation of more waste and more greenhouse gases?

The farmers demand fair prices, control of imports from outside the EU and less bureaucracy from the administrations, in no case the loss of control of the planet. The last sentence of the film Don't look arriva was invented by Leonardo DiCaprio and the screenwriter decided to include 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 a little more sensitive to the environment. Because we don't repeat DiCaprio's words one day, sooner or later, just before everything goes down.