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Cavaillon (Vaucluse) France: 12 construction machines out of order
Communiqué action zac
A few days ago we put 12 construction machines of the future ZAC des Hauts Banquets (concerted development zone) out of action, in the commune of Cavaillon. Let’s be clear: every year, in France, more than 60,000 hectares are artificially developed. The equivalent of a department every 7 years. At this rate, in 100 years, half of the territory will have disappeared under concrete and commercial zones.
Faubourg Promotion, the promoters of the project, assure us that ransacking 46 hectares of fertile agricultural land is tantamount to building an “ecosystem designed around biodiversity”. The techno-park they promise us is certified as a “Park +, Committed Park”, “Eco Parc Vaucluse”, it would participate in “green growth”, would be “virtuous”, “responsible” and even “positive energy”… Capitalism, in its mortifying madness, ravages the very meaning of words. The Hauts Banquets farmlands have the capacity to produce food for more than 24,000 human beings, they are also the habitat of many living beings: earthworms, dragonflies, voles, frogs… If nothing is done, the construction site will leave behind brand new open spaces and a bitter taste of dust.
It is time to destroy this cynical ecology that dances on the dying corpse of the living. We don’t want any more new ZACs or logistics platforms, no more mega-warehouses or 2×2 roads. As soon as they are built, these infrastructures are already ruins.