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Jorge Riechmann
People who don’t want
to go to Mars: on
ecology, limits and the
conquest of outer space
Emilio Valerio
Environment and urban
design in Spain. A view
from Madrid’s Office of
Public Prosecution
Lodging allegations
during public
enquiry periods
Allegations respecting
the Master Plan for
Island Waste
Management (PDIR)
Jorge Riechmann holds a BSc in mathematics, a PhD in
political science and is full professor of moral philosophy at
the University of Barcelona, as well as a writer and a
translator of French and German literature. Riechmann has
also received a number of awards for his poetry. As essayist,
he writes regularly on politics, sociology and philosophy, in
particular in the context of environmental issues.
In his 18 September lecture, Riechmann sustained that ours
are utopian times, not in terms of a collective project for
social emancipation, but in a restrictive sense, almost like a
negative utopia.
With the aid of slides used like visual poems, the lecturer
substantiated — in some depth — the idea that,
environmentally speaking, capitalist productivity is grossly
erroneous. During the conference, Riechmann analysed
humanity’s present tendency to anthropoevasion, to flee from
what it appears to regard as the unbearable human condition.
Emilio Valerio Martínez de Muniaín holds a BSc in mathematics
and a PhD in law. He has been visiting professor at Harvard
and Stanford Universities and has authored a number of books
and articles on environmental issues.
For the last eleven years he has been the Chief Public Prosecutor
for the Environment and Consumer and Urban Planning Affairs in
the Superior Court of the Region of Madrid, the regional body
specialising in environmental and urban planning violations.
In the lecture delivered on 16 October, Valerio addressed
Spain’s environmental and urban design problems, stressing
the issues relating to territorial organisation, the peculiarities
of Spain’s economic structure, the environmental behaviour of
Spanish companies world-wide and the environmental
consequences of the country’s model of urban, energy, tourist
and agrarian development.
In 2003 the FCM persisted in its defence of the environment
on Lanzarote, posting various allegations during public enquiry
periods.
On 16 December 2003, within the public enquiry period, the
FCM filed allegations on the Master Plan for Island Waste
Management (PDIR) approved by the Lanzarote Island
Council.
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