Catalonia: Drought, climate change and capitalist business

World Water Day celebrated on 22 of March, has found the territory in a bad situation. It worsens with the dominant productive matrix. To reverse the path to ecological disaster, deep changes are needed.

The drought has caused the reservoirs to have water reserves only at the 27% of his capacity, less than half of last year. there is already 514 municipalities on alert for drought, what affects the 80% population. So much so that the Catalan Water Agency has decreed the state of exceptionality in the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona. It is the worst situation in the last fifty years.

Drought restrictions

The first restrictions affect agricultural consumption, ranchers, industrial and recreational. further, Limitations were defined in urban and vehicle cleaning, on the farms, in ornamental fountains and sports facilities. In the domestic sphere, only the use of water to fill swimming pools was limited and irrigation recommendations were given.. New procedures are also being executed to have the necessary water. What there are no fundamental changes. The problem is not only water, it is much more extensive.

​“Theme park for sale”

The CUP has denounced the government of Pere Aragonès for its intention to “turn the country into a theme park for sale” with projects such as the Barcelona Pyrenees Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, el Hard Rock, the Fourth Belt and the expansion of El Prat Airport. It has also accused the government of the Generalitat for the recovery of the Logis Penedès macro project, to convert 177 hectares of the municipalities of The Arboç Y bathtubs in a gigantic logistics center, to function as a dry port between Barcelona and Tarragona.

LH from cementation to heating

In Hospitalet de Llobregat Marín-business cementing advances along with real estate deals that liquidate green spaces and contribute to global warming. Because, It is so important to reinforce the natural spaces on the margin of the Río Llobregat and the Agricultural Park of Cal Trabal, recover the municipal management of water and waste and advance in a sustainable energy model and energy production 100% public; as proposed by the CUP LH.

there is no planet b

Catalonia is not the only autonomous community affected, Castilla-La Mancha and its neighboring autonomies also suffer the consequences of climate change, the Valencian Community, Murcia and Andalusia. just to do reference to regions of the Spanish State, because in reality it is a planetary problem that threatens the very existence of humanity. Beyond the promises of governments about an alleged concern for the environment, there is the reality of the business matrix and capitalist profits.

The problem is not the climate but capitalism

The capitalist system is in a stage of ecocidal decomposition. With his voracity for profit, he questions human habitability on the planet, threatening to change living conditions irreversibly. This is why millions of young socio-environmental activists mobilize and go on climate strikes. to save the planet, we must confront and defeat the political expressions that defend the destructive capitalist system.