#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Spain, CNT-AIT Albacete:[Opinion]The origin of the fire. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On the 7th there was a fire in the south of Cuenca where we were 86 people with

the respective firefighting means (off-road vehicles, trucks, helicopters)
working for two days in a row to protect a mature oak forest that in the end lost
about 60 hectares. ---- This hardly has any relevance in the political world,
neither in the media nor in the prevention and extinction of fires. I am not
going to estimate the economic extra costs that could entail, but I do want to
highlight what it costs to create and regenerate an ecosystem of these
characteristics. ---- The fire started where a harvester was working on farmland
(or peazo as they say around here) where the machine could barely be turned to
make even two passes on those llanetes that capitalist greed does not hesitate to
plow and take advantage of every inch.

These days of harvest, the harvesters have an inhumane work rhythm from 4am to
24h where the drivers do not stop to eat, and they need other people with a
tractor, trailer, mechanics, special vehicle, kitchen, cleaning, etc. Which is
often done by the invisible rural women. Among other costs, they consume
approximately one thousand euros of fuel per day.

The countryside in general has very little profit margin, so rural people tend to
fall into the labyrinthine spiral of taking more land to earn more money, to take
more land you need more machinery and for those lands and machinery they need
more money and to have more money to start all over again in an infinite nonsense
of slavery and precariousness that only fuels bank debts and the numerous
addictions (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, prostitution, etc.) to which
overexploited, alienated and denaturalized people They cling to escape and resist.

When I start looking for the origin of a fire, I have to go through all these
realities inherent to the system that, although we criticize, we belong to. So I
need to make this call for attention, rather for help:

Please realize how we become desensitized to the barbarities and violence that we
are normalizing and integrating into our day to day, coming to exercise them in
our own person, family and environment, submitting ourselves at will to
unhealthily comfortable and irresponsible living conditions that feed back the
various inequalities economic, social, gender, race, etc, etc.

This lie of unlimited growth and the globalized American dream kills us like the
heroine kills the junkie. You think that being okay is when you're not aware.

So I ask you from my heart: assume responsibility for the consequences of your
actions and to the extent of your strength and possibilities each day, integrate
the maxim of a great shepherd "do not consume, do not produce, do not obey."

Self-management, degrowth, solidarity.

Since more than 80% of the use of agricultural land, deforestation, water
consumption and the pollution generated is a direct consequence of meat
production, I suggest that you take direct action in the first person, being an
example of commitment: reduce meat consumption as much as you can.

The fire starts at your table.

For your health and that of all your colleagues.

Get involved.

https://cntaitalbacete.es/2022/07/opinion-el-origen-del-incendio/
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