Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Apr 22 (EFE) has passed along the Las Canteras beach promenade in the capital of Gran Canaria.
This was expressed on behalf of this NGO by its social educators Katy González and Inés Díaz, who have been part of a protest led by a banner with the slogan “Canarias has a limit” in which other slogans such as “Canarias no it is sold, the Canary Islands defends itself” or “Consume less to live more”.
The Minister and Deputy Minister of Social Rights of the regional Executive, Noemí Santana and Gemma Martínez, participated in this march, representing the Sí Podemos Canarias confluence.
Katy González has criticized the “plundering” that, in her opinion, is taking place in the Canary Islands and has shown the concern that Ben Magec has about the environmental and social impact that his current model based on mass tourism has on the Canary Islands.
In front of him, he has proposed “another way of doing tourism and a model that respects the territory and resources” of the islands “and that its environmental wealth is not continued to be destroyed.”
“There are alternatives, such as other models based on an eco-tax or a tourist moratorium. Decreasing means not continuing to build infrastructure that continues to damage the territory, but rather using what is already protecting and caring for it, not putting tourism first”, she asserted.
This young representative of Ben Magec has alluded to the eco-taxes implemented in the Balearic Islands and Barcelona and has estimated that this would be “a way of reversing the impact that a sector such as the tourism industry leaves in a territory as fragile and fragmented as the Canary Islands”.
In addition to considering that the Canarian environmental movement “needs to gain strength and take to the streets again”, Inés Díaz has lamented that the Canary Islands are suffering “brutal gentrification” due to the effect of massive tourism that “ignores protected territories and heritage cultural and ecological aspects of the islands.
“We believe that there is a bit of a myth in this tourism thing. It is true that it creates jobs, but under what conditions, in what way and at what cost”, he asked.
In the end, Díaz stressed, “the economies are focusing on the tertiary sector, which is a bit of looking outwards, and, meanwhile, we are with working conditions and an environment that do not favor us.” EFE
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The entry Ben Magec’s young ecologists ask that “limits” be placed on mass tourism in the Canary Islands due to its social and environmental impact was first published in EFE Noticias.