Catalonia will no longer depend on rain in 2030″, says a Government announcement. Isn’t it wonderful? The Government is promoting an investment plan of 2,400 million to “produce”, they say, the necessary water. So distressing about the drought, and total, is just a matter of a few years and a few investments. We used to think that water comes from rivers, wells, rain… but the world has changed. Now, as the Government announcement says, “water does not fall from the sky”.
And things evolve. A certain Bake Gómez explained it very well the other day, on the Maldito bollodrama podcast: “Being a man or a woman are social constructs, and social constructs evolve. If you ask someone fifty years ago what a telephone is, they will tell you that it is a big machine with buttons and a cable. There is a rock that remains stuck in a dogma: a car must be petrol, a telephone must have a cable, a woman must have a vagina, and a man, a penis… and that’s how, please, we can evolve ?”.
To think that water comes from nature is to stay stuck in a dogma. Water, like everything, is a social construct, and now it is “produced”, just like Coca-Cola. In the same way that a social construct that was assigned male at birth becomes a female social construct, produced by the pharmaceutical industry based on hormones or by complying with a law, the drought social construct can also become the opposed to copying investments, or promulgating a law, or watering the tomatoes with Coca-Cola..
And that’s how we were: happy, relieved and evolved, when boom and bust!, a guitar smasher comes and smashes it really hard for us. A certain Antonio Turiel, who says to X: “I can’t believe that they say stupid things like these. ‘Catalonia will no longer depend on rain in 2030’. Is this account real or a parody? Does anyone know how ecosystems work? The woods? Agriculture? How can you say such a lowdown. I don’t give credit…”.
And who is this Turiel? Scientific researcher at the CSIC Institute of Marine Sciences, his profile says X… Bah, surely it’s from Vox.
