Yesterday I read an article about the building industry. The article was writen by Javier Marías, a spanish writer, translator and publishing (He’s one of the members of the “Real Academia Española”). I don’t use to read articles but this was my yesterday’s homework; we had to do a short summary about it and then read it at the next spanish lesson. So when I finished my lessons in Castellón I returned home and I started to read María’s article. At first I didn’t understand the ideas of the text so I had to read it several times. I started to understand the opinion of the author and the topic of the text started to interest me. Javier Marías critized the attitude of some groups specifically he critized three groups; the mayors, the builders and the regional directors. He wrote that these groups are rogues, they don’t matter if they destroy cultural heritage or if they destroy the ecological balance, they ruined the country to benefite themselves, and the worse thing is that the State allow this.
After read this article I have been thinking about this problem, the excessive building. Marías is right, nowadays they’re building everywhere. They’re destruying everything and every time we have less contry to enjoy ourselves. In our country, Spain, they are building excessively. Marías said that only in Spain we build more than in some of the most populated european contries together. Anyway the prices of the apartments don’t fall, they are everytime more expensive so people can’t buy them and many flats are uninhabited, but they don’t stop building, they built more and more flats and houses. Furthermore nowadays there are a lot of unemployed people that can’t buy a house.
I think we can change that situation and we can conserve the countryside in order to
people can enjoy it.