As Cañellas said: "They're not ours."

PalmFew people expected measures to combat the islands' tourist overcrowding from a government that is ideologically far more comfortable with laissez-faire than intervention. But after the demonstrations two years ago, where thousands of people unanimously expressed their exhaustion with a model that impoverishes and overcrowds the islands, the government was forced to announce 'measures'.

Using the traditional tactic of "we need more data," the Sustainability Roundtable was launched. Despite the good intentions of its organizers and even some of the participating sectors, it gradually lost momentum and interest. Months passed, and not only was nothing concrete achieved, but we all began to suspect that the Government wouldn't even notice. In other words, the Government creates a participatory mechanism with a top-notch technical team, involves major productive sectors—who have spent countless hours filling out forms, contributing ideas, and reading draft laws—and it all comes to nothing. ARABalears recently reported that Marga Prohens's administration is abandoning any possibility of implementing measures to reduce tourist pressure. The saddest part is the argument itself. We saw this coming. In the summer, the human pressure index decreased by less than 1%. In other words, in a month like July, instead of 2,046,484 people, 2,028,582 were counted. The government's communications team rushed to emphasize the news of the "great" drop in tourism. The withdrawal was inevitable. No measures are necessary. History repeats itself, and as Cañellas said after an environmental demonstration: "They're not on our side."