Con carácter previo a la redacción de este trabajo me pregunté qué pensaría hoy el Profesor Martín Mateo del eslogan “la España vaciada” y sus connotaciones ambientales. Para reflexionar sobre ello me vinieron a la cabeza dos de sus libros, “La gallina de los huevos de cemento” y “La verde energía de la biomasa”. Y con esa base he ido configurando este texto, cuyo objeto es simplemente reflexionar sobre la fórmula que vamos a escoger para “llenar” que los espacios forestales son el elemento fundamental de la estructura ecológica de la Unión Europea y deben integrarse en el resto de las políticas sectoriales. El interrogante que me planteo y al que se trata de responder es si somos verdaderamente justos con ellos.
Before writing this paper I asked myself what Professor Martín Mateo would think today of the slogan "Empty Spain" and its environmental connotations. And to reflect on this, two of his books came to mind, "The chicken with the cement eggs" and "The green energy of biomass". And it is on this basis that I have shaped this text, the aim of which is simply to reflect on the formula that we are going to choose to "fill" this Spain that is not yet fallow and in which it is essential to understand that forest areas are the fundamental element of the ecological structure of the European Union and must be integrated into the rest of the sectoral policies. The question I am asking myself and which it is a question of responding to is whether we are being fair to them.