Poor Man About Town

I downloaded this podcast from the BBC, Crossing Continents, it was a report by Julian Pettifer who examined on how holiday makers and property developers are beshitting the Mediterranean. Spain has become so overdeveloped and polluted, that property developers are casting their sights on the Eastern Med. In Montenegro, for example, it is estimated that there are 2000 bits of plastic polluting 1 square kilometre of sea. In spite of the National Law that allows everybody access to the beach, property developers have marked out their territories, like a dogs pissing on the corner of a wall, by hiring security guards to patrol the beach that they consider theirs, ie near to where they have built an hotel. On one beach, Julian Pettifer was told to leave by a security guard as it reserved for special people. He went to another beach and told by a security guard that he could stay on a beach if pays "twenty five erreh (twenty five Euros); for the twenty five erreh he would get a sun bed and beach umbrella. Gosh, it seems that property developers are dangerous and hazardous pollutants.

You can download the podcast here

Labels: environment, Greedy Property Developers, pollution