Environmentalists deplore the “numerous attacks and threats” that jeopardize the preservation of the Canary Islands and the future of future generations that jeopardize the preservation of the Canary Islands and the future of future generations, and in their report emphasize that to meet all the demands of the economic model and development would require an area 27 times larger. archipelago: “We therefore speak of the current model as an unsustainable and short-term model doomed to failure,” they say.
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“We want to think about exactly for whom these benefits are intended, because the growth of tourism is not at the same time as the development of Canarian citizens , for example, 30% of Canarian society is at risk of poverty, 13% are in extreme poverty. So we have a lot to reflect on our development model and the examples we have here are meant to advance in that sense,” said Cristobal Lopez, representative of Ecologuestas en Acción .