Last summer
hell came down in Portugal. It all started in Pedrogão a small city/village surrounded
by forest and somewhat isolated from “civilization”. Somehow in the “perfect time frame a supposed “lightning”
from a dry storm reached a tree and started this fire. A fire that in seconds
spread through the entire region and came near houses and roads. People started
running from the fire other preferred to try to save their houses and goods, none
of them thought of what was the price to pay for each choice made.
The ones
that were to their cars… they entered a road with no return as the fire
surrounded the cars and burned all hopes by taking their life’s… the ones that
stayed at home had almost the same “luck” as the fire devoured their houses and
destroyed all in seconds.
A couple of
weeks later almost in the start of autumn another fire in de region of Leiria
started… Once again with no knowledge of what really deployed the fire, but
with the same ending as the fire searched for fuel and destroyed one of the
most important forests in Portugal as the pinhal of Leiria was almost doomed.
This pinhal
was seeded by D. Dinis in the XIII century as per the need to build the boats
that would lead to the discoveries to India and bring the spices to Europe.
700 years destroyed in 24h.
Is sad to
see that something that was seeded so long ago was destroyed in a couple of…
hours.
Now, the question is why? Who did this? With what
purpose?
The dark
side of the story could be corporative interest and also political and
economic.
Why?
As the
trees that were seeded on Portugal long ago, were pinheiros, a tree that has no
real value for the production of paper and that was changed for eucalyptus in
the early years. This kind of tree is very useful for cellulose that is the
perfect ingredient for the production of paper. The worst about this tree is
the fact that needs lots of water to grow and also destroys the ground as it dries
it and takes all the nutrients needed for the rest of the plants to grow.
As the factories
need more cellulose they need to seed more eucalyptus and for that they need
land to make them grow… the rest… well I let you to make the thinking.
Poor of the
people that had to pay the price of the greed of others, poor of the fire
fighters that gave their life to save others.
Shame on
the government that applied several hundreds of Euros on the SIRESP technology
to prevent catastrophe and did not work… shame on the people that profit from
this kind of situations and even for those that go plunder the rests of what
was destroyed.
Shame on
the government that did not applied all the options they had with shoppers,
plains and military help.
Something
must change, we are in a season of lack of water, almost winter and still no
rain on the near days. No water in the dams the rivers are starting to dry.
Are the
dark ages back again?
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