The madness of the brick made Spain the European country that most urban land manufactured between 2000 and 2006, according to a recent study by the European Environment Agency (EEA). A series of measurements taken by satellite have allowed to conclude that in this period monopolized 24% of the land that was urbanized in the European Union. They are followed by France, with 12% and Germany, with 9%. The crisis has managed to stop this trend, to relieve green and cultivated land and some of the species that live in them. But it has left qualified land as building land for 35 or 40 years, at an average low rate of about 150,000 houses per year, according to data from the Urban Information System, under the Ministry of Development. That is, 709,577 hectares that can be salvaged for nature.
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Source: www.elpais.com
