For the immediate prohibition of bullfights in Ibiza

PalmaDANAs (isolated depressions at high levels) should be banned in Ibiza. I find that they don't suit us at all. They leave water, yes. Is water needed? Surely – champagne alone is no longer enough for me to fill the bathtub: it has become extremely expensive. However, if water is lacking, they should build more desalination plants. DANAs are completely inopportune: last year they already put the nightclub 'closings' at risk and this year they almost did it again. It was a close call. Couldn't they happen in February, when there's no one around? It is obvious that DANAs are contrary to progress, leisure, and any attempt at order. They catch me without an umbrella every October – one of these days I'll go to a 'Chinese store' and buy three or four. That's how things are. Adam – that's what the DANA in question was called – left 173.8 liters per square meter at Ibiza airport on Sunday the 18th. In a single day. Absolute record. A clear case of intrusion into the activity of the desalination plants. Why does no one do anything about it? Whose fault is it?

I don't like pointing fingers, but the illegal government of Perro Sanxe could be behind it. You never know where they might come from. There are planes that pass by fumigating. Antennas in the shape of a colander, who knows what radiation they spread. The climate is out of control, and what is the government's reaction? None. Just holding out their hand to collect. Luckily, Vox has found a candidate in the Balearic Islands up to the task: her name is Maribel Cerezo, she is a researcher and professor. A few months ago she participated in a talk titled Global change: the scientific reality against the myth of the climate emergency. It was organized by the same party. Indeed, there is no climate emergency. If it rains more than before and more violently, it's not because of global warming; if, year after year, temperature records are broken, it's because the climate just feels like screwing us over, just for the hell of it and to be a pain in the a**, and for nothing else. (Surely those at ARA Balears will censor my article. I don't think they'll let me write 'screw' with all the letters. There is no freedom left, nor is there anything).

Long-term planning

So prohibition is the best option if not the only one. Getting Ibiza to survive the DANA storms is practically impossible. And extremely expensive. Drainage works should be carried out on the airport road, which has been flooding for twenty years whenever a few drops fall; the rainwater network in Vila must be finished, because it is clear that the storm tank is not enough; the same has happened with the tank that was inaugurated in Platja d'en Bossa and which has also fallen short; check new and old buildings; clean streams and torrents; reinforce all emergency services, hire new staff and vehicles, and an extensive array of smaller or larger works. A bill we cannot pay. And what is even more difficult: one would have to think long-term, plan investments beyond a single legislative term, assuming that climate change—let's imagine for a second that this fallacy were real—will cost the citizens millions and millions of euros. Nah. Impossible. Let's see who is the brave one to tell them they have to pay more taxes.

That is why I like Vox's position. It is the most intelligent one. It is very difficult for a politician to think beyond four years: who can say if they will keep their seat at the end of the term? That is why they do not even try. In the document 100 measures for a Living Spain (which passes as Vox's electoral program; I did not find it in Catalan, but I have translated the title for you for free) the environment or the climate are not mentioned even once. Not once. It must be that Spain does not occupy a physical space; Spaniards are not included in the environment, but rather inhabit something similar to the metaverse. The truth is that this simplifies things a lot, everything is an advantage. If there is no environment to protect or regulate, a lot of problems disappear at once, including climate change—which I already know is not real, "but what if it is," as José Mota would say.

Therefore, there is nothing left but the immediate and total ban of DANA events, an inappropriate and virulent reality –and an invader of national sovereignty–, and their regulation and management in the form of scarce rainfall, drizzle, or even a light dew. Organizing humidity: this must be the goal. Because planning and making the necessary investments to deal with climate change –oh no, but what if yes– seems to be beyond our reach. Even more so when the trend marked by the political agenda, in Europe, in Spain, or in the Balearic Islands, does not even recognize the land it treads on, the air it breathes, or the water it drinks. It is a phenomenon that is happening especially with migration policy but also with the environment: the far right sets the pace and conditions the programs, not only in its own ideological sphere, but also within the left, which organizes its discourse from confrontation rather than from constructive ideas. Conditioning environmental policy without even mentioning it. The folks at Vox are skillful people. That is why they are in the best position to govern Spain starting on November 29th. Perhaps it is because the left has spent too much time being treated as fools.