Thursday, March 18, 2010

Pet Store Cover Letters



A documentary on the destruction of the Delta del Llobregat, filmed before the release of the new airport terminal and, therefore, before the facts are quite accomplished ...


The negative delta from eldeltanegat on Vimeo .




Perhaps the first thing that strikes me is the parallel between the complaint of a neighbor about the Baix Llobregat has already sacrificed too much for the common good, and the discourse that is also emitted from Ribera d'Ebre , instead of nuclear power plants, reservoirs, chemical plants and now, perhaps, burial of radioactive waste. I also

looks interesting reflection on how the big cities, with all the glitz and splendor of its centers, generating a huge back room of territories varied punished for infrastructure (roads, water treatment plants, airports ...). The question, of course, is to what extent is this pattern desirable and sustainable.

And the third element to highlight, more poetic if you will: birds and planes disturbing one another at the airport and the wetland is nearby. It seems these days as technology, the birds are still a major threat to the safety of takeoffs and landings. At the same time, obviously, the increase of cement will constrain the possibility that migratory birds will continue with stops in this corner of the Mediterranean coast, but those who have visited the nature reserve which is amazing to see how the birds have become indifferent to the deafening sound of planes (which does bother, since Of course, humans who live in the area, as the inhabitants of urbanization Gava Mar). In addition, one of the experts featured in the documentary says that while the birds stop to stop in the Delta del Llobregat, his career would happening here because it tends to Retracing the coast.

Anyway, just contextualizing: all this is probably part of a battle lost, recover or preserve what little remains of the Baix Llobregat as it was before becoming the current urban and suburban chaos. Since the official conservation efforts are not sufficiently strong to not translate into a genuine willingness regulator (in the documentary, someone says the Delta agricultural land are being sold at prices of apples in the Eixample), is a network of smaller struggles as an attempt to save the last agricultural area l'Hospitalet, around Cal Trabal, next to the hospital of Bellvitge and a tangle of roads.

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