Sustainable tourism? In Croatia! This is the study that was formulated by ecologists, sociologists and urban planners as an important condition of harmony between nature and man and which collects dust in the archives of this and all other Hadese governments, while in the meantime the Dalmatian coast and islands turn into a concrete hell. Sustainable tourism here implies the terrible destruction of nature, especially maritime property, filling the coast with tons of concrete, and in order to get private beaches, it means throwing huge cement blocks with buoys into the sea, so that the yachts of unscrupulous people can be anchored on them, in front of their villas. Skorojevic, mostly foreign citizens.
This is how the Austrian will justify his illegal act, concreted exactly the public passage from his villa to the maritime property: "But they told me that's how it's done here!" And guessed on Wednesday. Because in Austria, no illegal construction would certainly have crossed his mind, nor could he buy the authorities' silence with a handful of euros. And here, in a country full of institutions for the preservation of maritime property, the sea and the undersea, everything works on the basis of corruption between so-called investors, who devastate the best localities, and officials, tasked precisely to prevent the destruction of the natural harmony of such areas.
Sustainable tourism in Croatia means the destruction of the most beautiful city beach in Split, Bačvica, the gathering place of the hordes that tore up all the trees and left huge amounts of glass in the sand of Bačvica, the stench of urine, tons of starlings. Of course, the institutions do not react, because it is a matter of well-controlled disorder from the top of the government, of the need for quick profit from monoculture without which the state piggy bank will remain empty, of coordinated greed of the authorities and individuals who will kill their own mother for one guest in their apartment, and owners of cafes in Dubrovnik to force citizens who will not spend at least HRK 300.
However, the most terrible consequence of "sustainable tourism" is the complete destruction of maritime property and the sea itself. And it's hard to imagine without a photo the monster hotel, the size of the largest cruise ship, built at the entrance to Postire on the island of Brač, where greed reached its peak, and a group of investors, clearly with money of dubious origin, with the assistance of architects and institutions, succeeded in a disgusting megalomaniacal project, whose the foundations were driven almost into the sea itself, forever changing the vision of that small fishing village. When asked why he agreed to such an abomination, the architect coldly answers: "If it weren't for me, someone else would have done it." And he is right, because it is the architects, often awarded, who should be the guardians of the harmony between nature and construction, who for "important investors" run around the institutions and acquire dubious building permits, corrupt local and state officials, and all is legal. And when it is discovered that it is not, then, as it is presented to the public, a large group of investors, "reputable architects" and women who illegally issued permits for the excessive construction of already completed monstrous hotels, right next to the Split coast, are arrested in Split. So the wolf has already eaten the donkeys. Or is it sustainable tourism when Hadeze's official plows up to 30.000 square meters for apartment construction in the bay of Mali Ston on Pelješac, a protected natural reserve for the cultivation of shellfish, and reacts only after the Maloston reserve is already threatened? It is in vain.
Sustainable tourism means that every morning on the mulic where I have been swimming all my life, in a small bay on Šolta, I can make lunch of tomatoes, peppers, melons... with a larger assortment of plastic packaging, all the garbage thrown from huge yachts anchored where it shouldn't be, too close to the shore , which no one controls, and no one from a yacht with a helicopter on deck has any use. Sustainable tourism is also the illegal tying of a boat the size of a ferry to the coast in that wave because it is the property of an "important investor", which, we are told by local institutions, "must not be touched".
And why? Because that Slovenian, whose name is also mentioned in the Panama Papers due to money laundering, together with something that is conspiratorially called "investors from Mauritius", bought and probably already resold a fantastic bay on the southern side of Solta, which will become a "paradise for the chosen ones", of course by the devastation of nature, the construction of dozens of villas and, of course, the banning of access to the plebs. The municipality will build all the necessary infrastructure, with our money, after, with small gifts from the respective developer, tens of thousands of square meters of agricultural land by the sea, which was bought by our investor at a ridiculously low price, has been repurposed into fabulously expensive construction. That's why this person - a former blanket dealer, who will buy attractive apartments in the old city center in Split, register as many as 30 companies, and then shut them down and thus cover their tracks, as soon as he finishes the generous job of blindly concreting some attractive natural asset - is allowed to he "fixes" the small bay in front of his villa, that is, he concretes thirty meters along the sea, then throws tons more cement blocks into it, on which he anchors his yachts...
We, vulgaris citizens, as powerless, endangered fish and shells, have only to watch the gentle coexistence of the state and the mafia. And just so you know, this is only a tiny part of a huge story about greed and destruction, about the lawlessness of a state that advertises itself as "the Mediterranean as it once was".
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