Hypocrisy
Recently, a report by the United Nations (UN) stated that the sea level is growing because of the greenhouse effect, that ecosystems in some places are changing, that poor land is increasing, that the number of fish in the seas is decreasing and that we are going to experience so many other worrying situations. The doors to hope were also left open, provided that carbon dioxide emissions were cut to a significant extent.
In the meantime, it is known that the economic crisis has led to the world’s richest countries now emitting less carbon gas than in the past decade; in Europe and in EE.UU. there is a downward trend, but the reasons are not the same in all countries, as most of the time the crisis has been the cause and rarely the change of economic model.
We have just read that the Spanish Government is going to bid for the first part of the important knot of the Bergara TAV and that the Basque Government has complained that it was expecting more. One of them would take out the call for tenders through an election and the other would make known its impotence in the face of the Pharaonic work that is dying in sight.
This example is nothing more than a reflection of the development model presented to us to emerge from the crisis. While most motorway lines, airports, TAV and normal train lines in many countries in Europe and especially in Spain are in red numbers, cement is the magic key that pulls us back from the crisis. The expansion of the exterior port of Pasaia and the airport of Hondarribia, as well as the recovery of the construction sector, are some of the recipes to grow.
At the beginning of the crisis in the years 2007 and 2008, more than one mentioned that the previous economic model was over and that we were on the verge of a new economic system, but now it is nothing more than a question of economic indices, which must be improved and rapid. To this end, the prescriptions of multinational companies can yield immediate results, based on cement and large infrastructures.
We are being told that the greenhouse effect will increase but that if unemployment falls it is the price that can be paid, and that, moreover, in 10 or 20 years' time, we will have the opportunity to address the issue.
There are very few who are raising growth in the re-use of recycling, technology and households, infrastructure and businesses, because we have to rush out of the crisis and it is right to do things half-heartedly.
We have not learned anything, nor do we want to learn anything, and furthermore, surely, the Earth will give us new opportunities.
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