The ex-president Jose “Pepe” Mujica analyzed the drought that whips Uruguay for months and that has also hit several countries in the region and blamed “high politics” for failing to find a contingency plan for these phenomena.
“We continue with a drought, it has rained, but in no way is there deep accumulation in the slopes, in the water reserves,” said Mujica in dialogue with Radio 10 of Argentina.
The former president, who was Minister of Agriculture during the first presidency of tabare vazquezhighlighted that “this process of drought continues because the rains that have come are of little volume and I believe that the region continues with a drought in the deep sense of the term”, and questioned: “The big question is Will this be a temporary issue or are we facing a dramatic change? because in reality if we average the rainfall in a country over the last 3 years there is an average that has dropped enormously and it is no longer a season, it is an accumulation of less water in the soil and especially in the deeper layers of the traditional springs ”.
“The most dramatic thing is that it seems that we are going to continue without reacting to these things, it is difficult for us to understand. We do not incorporate into our daily culture that humanity became a geological phenomenon that has an influence on the balance of the planet and that we are dramatically modifying everything and it seems that we do not have the intellectual courage to modify our behavior in relation to what is coming to us”, warned Mujica who, in the past, had already criticized the lack of actions policies regarding climate change.
The leader of the broad front He later recalled a trip he made as a minister together with Vázquez to New Zealandwhere they toured “an underground laboratory with a bunch of gigantic pots, each one with a plant or two and each one with a light, with a temperature” where they work on the adaptation of species to the change in temperature.
“It has been many years. I was relatively young. And I ask myself this question: the night is slipping away from us and very little or nothing has been done. Humanity is like arms crossed waiting I don’t know whathe mused.
“We have put nature to work against ourselves and we are not making an effort to even try to rise to the challenges ahead. Science has not failed high politics has failed that prioritizes anything except this one that has to do with sustaining life and the planet”, he stressed.
Source: Ambito
