The Iberian peninsula is slowly but surely desertifying. Part of it is due to climate change, sure, but it doesn’t help that governments aren’t willing to pass and enforce regulations against the mass cultivation of plants that require huge amounts of water, such as avocados, in regions that do not naturally receive as much rain. If we keep stupidly trying to use more water than we need and the local ecosystems can afford, it’s only logical sooner or later we’d have these issues with olives, amongst many other troubles.
The people profiting off of this don’t care about the sustainability of their actions. Once they’ve sucked the land dry, they’ll just use their profits to do it somewhere else.
The only people who lose are the poor people who are stuck with the shitty land.
While there are very notorious exceptions, a lot of the landowners and politicians committing and allowing this crime come from families who have lived in the territory for generations without having ever loved it, and would rather die rich in a desert than letting their children inherit green lands.
The Iberian peninsula is slowly but surely desertifying. Part of it is due to climate change, sure, but it doesn’t help that governments aren’t willing to pass and enforce regulations against the mass cultivation of plants that require huge amounts of water, such as avocados, in regions that do not naturally receive as much rain. If we keep stupidly trying to use more water than we need and the local ecosystems can afford, it’s only logical sooner or later we’d have these issues with olives, amongst many other troubles.
“Get in, get rich, get out.”
The people profiting off of this don’t care about the sustainability of their actions. Once they’ve sucked the land dry, they’ll just use their profits to do it somewhere else.
The only people who lose are the poor people who are stuck with the shitty land.
While there are very notorious exceptions, a lot of the landowners and politicians committing and allowing this crime come from families who have lived in the territory for generations without having ever loved it, and would rather die rich in a desert than letting their children inherit green lands.