SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 21 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Some thirty organizations take to the streets this Saturday in Tenerife under the slogan ‘The Canary Islands unite’ to demand “the recovery of nature in the Canary Islands” and show their rejection of the execution of large infrastructures.
The march will start at 11:00 am in Plaza Weyler to end in Plaza de España and will coincide with another demonstration in Gran Canaria against the Chira-Soria renewable energy macro-project.
The organizers expect a massive mobilization by Tenerife citizens to defend “a change in the industrial model, the tourist moratorium and self-reliance on renewable energy.”
In addition, they assure that “the current laws are designed for speculation and are destroying the few natural spaces that remain, so necessary for the mental health of the population” and insist that a “decrease” of the sector is needed and apply “policies regenerative to recover destroyed environments”.
The date coincides with the day on which 3 months have passed since a group of young people camped in the works of the ‘Cuna del Alma’ project in Puertito de Adeje.
Another of the projects opposed by the groups organizing this protest is that of the Tenerife Motor Circuit, which they describe as “scandalous”.
In his opinion, it is a “million-dollar public investment to promote private motor leisure, in the midst of an unprecedented crisis in fossil fuels and energy generation, while the management, conservation and restoration or surveillance of natural habitats, spaces and wild species, is totally insufficient and deficient due to lack of means”.
In their manifesto, the organizers give support to the scientists who have been protesting in Germany with the actions by the International Scientific Rebellion.
“The problems of the Canary Islands in the face of the climate emergency are the problems of the world and the problems of the world are the problems of the Canary Islands”, they detail, for which they demand a “declaration” of the Canarian identity with self-knowledge of the archipelago’s own circumstances.
