“Finally the warmth arrives and with it, the music festivalswhich is where everything is cooked,” said Belén Hinojar, one half of Climabar along with Carmen Huidobro, in The intermediate this Wednesday.
“We are all going to cook because if Every month that passes we break the temperature record“Imagine when summer really comes,” said Huidobro.
Hinojar asked him: “Does the climate crisis also affect festivals?”to which her partner replied that, worse than the public bathrooms that they usually set up at these events, is that they cancel them.
And the reasons he gave were that “they could do so because of torrential rain or a fire risk, something that has already happened. It happened in one that was organized in the middle of the desert in the United States,” said Huidobro.
“The one where everyone was dressed in the style Mad Max…”, he added. But his companion stated that “with the torrent of water that fell, it became a coil of swamp Shrek“.
“As heat waves and extreme weather events become more frequent and much more extreme, festivals have to be prepared for it. Like adequate ventilation, shaded areas and water sources and, even so, it is difficult to avoid everything,” they said.
“Gusts of wind of more than 120 km/h that destroyed the Medusa festival in Cullera more than two years ago and left one dead and 40 injured. Days later, eThe Benicasim Rototom was also canceled one day due to the wind and before, the SanSan had already been canceled due to torrential rains,” they recalled.
Huidobro dropped the possibility of stopping this type of festivals in the summer to avoid all those events, but Hiojar refused: “We can’t come to that.”
“This sector has to take the necessary measures and get its act together. We understand that there are a lot of new challenges, but festivals must be adapted to the new climate situation“Huidobro pointed out.
“In the event of rain or extreme heat, the most important thing is safety so that the only price to pay is the entrance fee, which, by the way, is very expensive,” they concluded.
