Olga Álvarez García
Lawyer specialising in environmental cases
I think it is exceptional to give rights to a natural entity, but it is also exceptional the moment we are living in, the environmental degradation we have been inflicting on our natural resources for years. It is also a historic moment if we take into account what science is warning us about the harmful effects of continuing on the path we are on.
That is why it is essential to seek imaginative solutions to the collective laziness and selfishness of allowing the progressive spoliation and pollution of natural spaces, which are a value that belong to all people, to all living beings.
I applaud the fact that society has been able, through collaborative work, to move forward with the protection of an ecosystem that we were suffocating, and I hope that it will give us time to reverse the damage caused. It is a lesson in what people can build together.