History is determined to set a new landmark for this 2022. Gone are the years when we worried about corruption and the risk premium. These problems now look like teenage dramas to the mature adult: today we wake up with horrors from a century ago—war, hunger—where relativity is cowardice or pettiness, giving us a stark but clear vision of what happened. this right side of history.
The invasion of Ukraine once again gave meaning to the idea of the EU as a united bloc, a form that began to recover with the pandemic two years ago. In this inertia, we recognize the international organization that we are proud to one day belong to and today we trust in our viability as a civilization. It was hard to be heard, it was hard for partners with the highest concentration of GDP in the Old Continent to believe in the demands and needs of the peripheral countries. Until we realize that without them there would be no Europe. The notebook of history split the future in two, and only one was true, that of solidarity.
Last Sunday, 3,000 farmers, ranchers and hunters from the province joined half a million friends from all over Spain in the already historic 20M demonstration to defend the rural world, which emptied Spain where the miracle of food production for 50 million Spaniards was. and many others beyond our borders. The people who give life to the country’s meadows, mountains, and valleys buy Castellana to claim that neither their protection, their productivity, nor their future can be guaranteed. This world, preceded by market and money, has different laws than those that govern cities, but has the same rights and needs.
The rural world dies if young entrepreneurs give up no help or service and if our elderly suffer without clinics or ATMs. What we understand as the Spanish countryside is not wilderness, but a biological and social convention that does not know how to reproduce itself without human action. Sustainability ensures that those of us who keep it alive remain urbanization-free on 84% of the national land. So we all unite under flags that we never have to defend but are part of a whole: those from the south and the coast against hunting and wolf protection, those from the north and inside for transfers. livestock bravo All for the double electricity tariff, the implementation of the Food Chain Law, the control of production costs and the rationalization of the CAP.
Castellana’s humanitarian tide has become a stripe that blurs political objections, not devoid of arguments but of opportunity when reality is so wild and urgent, turning gray into black or white. We’re talking about our food sovereignty, the raw materials of many of our main industries, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and the protection of species. From the zero point of climate mitigation.
In these times, politics cannot continue to profile itself by trying to stay in the middle. In this period of history, you must choose the right side. It is absurd to allocate millions to optimize irrigation with sensors, satellites and software for sustainable irrigation through PERTE and the Next Generation Funds if the flows do not reach the water inlets of the plots. This is exactly what the Minister of Ecological Transformation did when he wanted to ensure agricultural sustainability, but also hit transference. It is miserable to promote the Food of Spain label in the same European forums where we do not dare to demand a ban on the non-regulated non-EU product that comes out of ours as it makes its way into trucks and supermarkets. Capitalizing our demonstrations is unacceptable, while laws that protect us from usury by middlemen are not supported.
This is the cry of the environment, where cities are nothing but helpless islands of cement. It is in these difficult times that we have the chance to see without distorting that unity and solidarity are the only alternatives to barbarism. Now 20M’s motto makes perfect sense: Now and from now on, all together on the field.