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After strolling through the calcined surface in Gran Canaria, Pablo Casado proposed "to extend the Permanent Reviewable Prison for crimes called environmental terrorism, for arsonists that cause deaths." In his words - in addition to the fact of applying the term terrorism - what grinds the most is the will to focus the problem on punishment, not on prevention. As if the hardening of sentences, by itself, will help to avoid fires.

Spanish politicians, with few exceptions, have no idea of ​​the environment. They have not stepped on the landscape, they are not aware of the devotion that the destruction of rural culture entails and they are unaware of the erosion in the soils produced as a result of the reforestation carried out during the Franco regime. In democracy, no government has been effective in caring for biodiversity. Zapatero tried hard, but failed in the attempt. Aznar gave the portfolio of Environment to Jaume Matas, as everyone knows, a great specialist in the field. And Rajoy became minister of the thing to Cañete, in charge of liquidating the normative architecture erected by Narbonne. This mixture of ignorance and contempt prevents our political class from assuming empirical evidence: only the management of the mountain offers guarantees to preserve the ecosystem. Climate change and rural exodus facilitate the accumulation of dry vegetable fuel, which burns at high speed and causes large fires. The arrival of this type of sixth generation fires, extensive and voracious, represents an environmental catastrophe. The paradox, as experts like Marc Castellnou stress, is that the more we fine tune in extinction, the more we create the conditions to generate a mega-fire. By controlling the small bulbs, the fuel available in the mountains increases and, consequently, the possibility of an uncontrollable fire. Not even the reinforcement of the troops can stop firestorms like that of two years ago in Portugal, which released an amount of energy with an intensity of kilowatts much higher than the threshold of the extinguishing capacity. To this we must add speculative interests (houses in the forest and the coast) or the criminality of governments such as Brazil, which conceives the Amazon rainforest as if it were a means of economic exploitation and not a natural reserve.

The fires do not go out with opportunistic photos in front of a sea of ​​ashes. They are prevented by improving forest management, helping to maintain the endogenous activities of each territory and promoting environmental education to ultimately have a less flammable field . Everything else, punitive populism.

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• Jaume Matas
• Jose Maria Aznar
• Mariano Rajoy
• Pablo Casado
• Portugal
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