The Spanish socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, admitted on Monday, September 1 that the fire prevention policy was “clearly insufficient”, after a month of August marked by historical forest fires in the country.
“We have had a clearly insufficient prevention policy, which is reflected, for example, in the absence of plans (prevention) implemented, in the absence of advanced analysis or prediction instruments or in the fact that certain regions are not equipped with sufficient firefighters or forest brigades,” the Prime Minister granted by presenting a “national pact against the climate.”
“The fires of the sixth generation, this is what we call fires that have devastated more than 300,000 hectares in our country, do not leave in summer, leave in winter and autumn, that is, working every day of the year so that when these high temperatures arrive, we did not find situations that we had to suffer during this summer.” Sanchez.
“Climate change Mata”
“The second factor (which explains these fires, a note of the editor) was the management of the territory, which is also inappropriate and that has resulted in forest areas loaded with biomass, unwaled unwavering roads, the lack of indigenous and resistant species,” Pedro Sánchez continued. He made the “climatic emergency” the third factor explaining the fires that burned hundreds of thousands of hectares in the country in August.
“Climate change Mata,” said Prime Minister, who expressed himself precisely on the occasion of the presentation of a “national pact to face the climatic emergency.”
“If we want the next sums to bring us new misfortunes and that the next fall does not hit us in the way they hit us with floods, we must act now and we must do it together,” said the prime minister, whose proposal of “National Pact”, announced during the summer, was received with skepticism by opposition.
Source: BFM TV
