Earlier years the writer José Saramago this text devoted to the defense of El Cotillo Fuerteventura natural space where they intended to build golf courses. This text contains some of his thoughts now, shortly after his death is more alive than ever, a thought that speaks of El Cotillo but also the rest of the planet, you can change any locality and serves as the text. Serve
to his memory and memory.
ON COTILLO
At first, all men were landowners. Then came the day when a person laid siege to a plot and said, "This is mine and I will work for me and my descendants." How far was the man to assume that that act more or less selfish, more or less naive, perhaps necessary, was to end this injustice precavernícola and absurd, irrational and therefore inhuman, in that some landowners have been installed, believe, without any moral reason to justify it, they are more than just land users, because the irrefutable truth is that the land belongs to everyone and we all have about her rights and obligations.
Maybe someone can come saying "This is mine and I will make here a concrete rule that I will pay many millions then I take to my grave to feed my worms." Some people think well, unfortunately, but the entire society has an obligation to make him understand that no right, for the land and the common good is above the excessive greed and crime. And crime is hurting a land that is not infinite, a landscape that has no guilt to be beautiful, some people who can not be hit by the worst of this civilization, quick money, the vile rudeness, the trap for fools to whom nothing respected because it means nothing.
There are men so builders do not know what the concept means respect, unscrupulous politicians and unimaginative that promote and encourage the immediate destruction because they have no alternative ideas to make life easier his countrymen, owners who sell like there is nothing behind them and then racist and xenophobic headline saying bad things happening to them and their children comes from outside, without realizing that they opened the can of worms by allowing the company installed its exploitative and uncontrolled development, which is opposite to the desired human progress.
But make no mistake: evil advances. These owners do not respect the land they received from their ancestors or who bought speculatively, these political ambition stone and stay with the alibi of the votes, so often manipulated, these builders that will build badly and quickly, using slaves, without regard to anything and anyone, the group will achieve its objectives if citizens did not stop.
That is the great challenge we have, use, against immoral ambition, intelligence, against the legal tricks, the weight of law, against the violence of honesty against corruption, the force of reason and moral creative. The citizens of good will can not give up, can not get tired. The can not be destroyed Cotillo, Fuerteventura has to be preserved, the Canary Islands can not afford another attack.
Today in El Cotillo, yesterday in The Berrugo tomorrow again in the Berrugo and El Cotillo and everywhere want to install the destruction and death we find ourselves, because it is our responsibility because we can not allow end up with the Canaries. José Saramago
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