Grenfell Tower Fire

The burning of the Grenfell Tower di London, with dozens of innocent deaths, It is the burning of our civilization, of our way of being a community, of how the most vile speculation kills and destroys. Everything and everyone.

In this tragedy of chance, the well-known and imponderable calamity that can do and undo so much in our lives, there is nothing, absolutely nothing. Everything can be traced back to the sins of man, to our sins., including the indifference with which we are allowing the civilized values on which the generations that preceded us bet to rot.

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GRENFELL TOWER FIRE LONDON

We are in the heart of London, the much-celebrated capital city—a model of living—the epicenter and hub of billion-dollar businesses, opportunities for a new and better life, a rapacious and greedy finance system, and a real estate market that knows no end in its rising prices and values, driven by seemingly endless demand, despite the Great Depression and Brexit. And we are in the richest neighborhood of the English metropolis, Kensington and Chelsea, which has largely become a kind of amusement park for Arab and Russian families seeking good investments or social upgrading for their families. A neighborhood where, quite legitimately according to the expectations of the sonI, also invested a lot of Italians who sent their children to study in London or who made some brilliant real estate speculation.

Thanks to this denaturing of the neighborhood, to this waste of the territory and of a community, under the uncontrolled pressure of the neo-divinity called market, there was a real deportation of Londoners, that is, the weakest sections of the population who were forced to move from here to dilapidated buildings such as Grenfell TowerIt's the market, darling, that rules, and politics, good administration, and those who should be working for the common good, can do nothing but raise their hands in surrender.

CONTRADICTIONS LONDON

I spoke to several architects and they all gave me the same answer: in light of the facts, and not of hypotheses, The Grenfell Tower skyscraper, 24 floors, 120 dump apartments, was built and recently refurbished (at a cost of ten million pounds) in a criminal wayYes, you understood the adjective correctly: criminal, and as in all respectable crimes, the innocent victims arrived right on time.

There was no automatic fire extinguishing system (something unthinkable in the lofts of the rich in Chelsea and Kensington). There was neither an adequate fire alarm nor emergency exits. The materials used in the construction and renovation works were of very low quality, flammable and did not comply with the law.. In practice: not even in Bangladesh is it built this way, and here we are in the temple of the market-driven Western development model.

GRENFELL TOWER FIRE LONDON

This tower of the poor in the wealthy neighborhood of the metropolis of the super-rich and the super-poor presents us with a world turned upside down, unjust, and delusional. Even to the point of crime. It shows us the aberration to which an idea of economic development can lead, growth, inspired only by the goal of accumulating money, on the skin of anyone. Finally, and this detail is also part of the tragic picture, I would like to point out that the poor Italian couple who died in the Grenfell Tower fire, Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi were in that cursed building for one reason only: they were forced to leave Italy due to lack of work.Forced to settle in council housing due to the cost of living in London. They too were nothing but poor, a large majority; among the rich, a small minority.

The horrifying images of the fire that destroyed Grenfell Tower:

(The images were released by London's Metropolitan Police)

WHEN BUILDING BADLY MEANS DESTROYING LIVES AND THE ENVIRONMENT:

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