2023-08-16 02:00:00
For several years we have been expressing opinions about the vital need for Greater Tucumán, the care of the Sierra de San Javier. Especially since I participated in the Program for the Development of Metropolitan Areas of the Interior of the Country (DAMI), financed by the IDB, a contest that the Faculty of Architecture won, through its Institute of Planning and Urbanism. Twelve technicians (urban planners, architects, engineers, geologists, zootechnicians, communications and transportation experts, and economists; the only lawyer was the one who writes this) participated in said course. An intensive course of more than two years to which we will return. The “federal” project now presented, made up of various technical organizations from the UNT, the Conicet, the Inteph, for the purpose of protecting the San Javier system is, without a doubt, very welcome and speaks of the same scientific interest for a mountain range on which the habitable microclimate of Gran Tucumán depends. We repeat: it is undoubtedly of public and scientific interest all the scheduled activities aimed at reflecting on the scope of uncontrolled urbanization and the enormous damage it can cause to a natural system that is essential for the habitat of the largest conglomerate in the province. But we want to stop them in an aspect that, at least in what this newspaper publishes, is insufficient if scientific progress can truly be transformed into long-range public policies, that is, State Policies, as the only means of achieving effective results for senior citizens. proposed purposes. We warn in the “Federal Project” a certain contradiction so that the current situation of progress of the real estate voracity becomes a reality. In reality it is the old dilemma between scientific knowledge and political reality; in a country with excellent scientists and a sad economic and political reality like the one we are currently experiencing. The researcher says: “Our role is not executive… we are technicians in the territory”, and she adds: “trying to put knowledge resources ahead of real estate interests”. It is quite an indisputable definition, but how can this laudable ambition to protect the mountains and set limits to the insatiable real estate interests come true? Does it mean that it is not just a scientific role, but it is clear that it has specific economic policy purposes? If this arises from the expression of an organizing researcher, she means that, even without meaning to, she is in political territory. And then it is not only the municipalities and rural communes that she can count on to carry out a concrete action for the defense controls of natural assets such as forests and the environment. Let us return briefly to the DAMI experience, which was approved by the IDB with congratulations, but the 130 pages and 300 infographics of the study could never be published despite resorting to all State agencies, including the UNT and private companies, and sleeps on a shelf without having inspired any concrete and coherent action for Greater Tucumán. In summary: if an Agreement Law is not achieved between the UNT and the Province that involves municipalities and rural communes, and above all a shared security diagram between the park rangers of the University and a well-equipped rural Police, all the scientific deployment will run the risk of following in the long run the same failure of DAMI and the eternal national frustration between science and politics, between theory and practice, between dreams and reality.
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