Spain has removed well over 100 dams and water reservoirs within the past few years and has thus subjected its own population to some of the worst flash flooding ever seen in the history of the country and perhaps in the entirety of Europe. The reason for removing these dams is supposedly to combat “climate change” but then when the cities are overrun with floods, the government also blames “climate change.”
“Under a European Union programme to encourage the restoration of rivers to their wild state for the benefit of fish migration, Spain set about dismantling barriers of all kinds.” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dam-shame-what-really-caused-valencias-floods/
If you’ve never actually lived in Spain, and you’ve only read about Spain or only visited as a tourist then you would probably never know about its supremely dark governmental infrastructure. Spain was brutally fascist under the regime of Francisco Franco for 40 years from 1935 to 1975. Spain has more mass graves than any country in Europe and is second in the world only to Cambodia. Much of Spain’s fascist mentality and political personnel remain well ensconced in the current governmental system. Spain is very willing to put on a happy face for you when you’re visiting for a few days as a tourist but when you live there for many years as we did, you’ll begin to confront and feel an undercurrent of oppression and misery that is both supremely subtle and completely inescapable—this is why we left Spain in 2022.
Spain was one of the testing grounds to assess social tolerance for pandemic quarantines. Spain enforced some of the hardest lock-down measures in all of Europe, while we were living there.
When Spain started requiring a smartphone application in order for us to throw away our trash in the new “social credit system” that was the final straw for me, and I knew we had to leave.
Spain was brutally fascist under the regime of Francisco Franco for 40 years from 1935 to 1975. Spain has more mass graves than any country in Europe and is second in the world only to Cambodia. Much of Spain’s fascist mentality and political personnel remain well ensconced in the current governmental system.
Spain has removed well over 240 dams and water reservoirs within the past few years and has thus subjected its own population to some of the worst flash flooding ever seen in the history of the country and perhaps in the entirety of Europe.
LESS RAIN + FEWER DAMS = MORE FLOODING: Yet charts of rainfall in Spain show no trend towards a higher frequency of more extreme downpours. The data analyst Jose Gefaell published a graph this week of the number of rainfall events in Spain in which more than 100 litres fell per square metre in 24 hours. It shows, if anything, a slight decline. … In the past few years, the Spanish government has been removing dams at a furious rate. Under a European Union programme to encourage the restoration of rivers to their wild state for the benefit of fish migration, Spain set about dismantling barriers of all kinds. In 2021 it got rid of 108 dams and weirs; in 2022, another 133. That year, according to Dam Removal Europe, a coalition of seven green pressure groups, it was Europe’s proud league champion at dismantling them. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dam-shame-what-really-caused-valencias-floods/
The reason for removing these dams is supposedly to combat “climate change” but then when the cities are overrun with floods, the government also blames “climate change.”
‘Climate change kills’: Spain faces new flood threat as leaders highlight extreme weather at COP29 Parts of Spain woke up to fresh warnings of dangerous flooding on Thursday just weeks after heavy rains killed more than 200 people in Valencia. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/climate-change-kills-spain-faces-new-flood-threat-as-leaders-highlight-extreme-weather-at-cop29/ar-AA1u5pRZ
Hundreds are dead in Spain's floods. Scientists see a connection to climate change November 2, 2024 https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5175804/spain-floods-climate-change
Scientists say climate change made Spanish floods worse https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98eylqeg06o
The far-right Vox party says that the October 29 tragedy that killed at least 210 people is not due to climate change, but rather to the abandonment of major hydraulic projects launched under the dictatorship. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2024/11/08/spain-s-flooding-disaster-rekindles-divisions-over-franco-s-legacy_6732146_117.html
See more of my personal experiences in the posts linked below:
Spain is killing its citizens to promote climate change propaganda; Spain has removed >240 dams and water reservoirs but blames "climate change" for mass flooding and >200 citizen deaths