# Voracious capitalism · Crisis Trends 2025 · Zorraquino > Today’s economic model squeezes territories and people as if they were infinite resources, without considering the long-term consequences. URL: https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/voracious-capitalism ![Voracious capitalism: Today’s economic model squeezes territories and people as if they were infinite resources, without considering the long-term consequences.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0w1142l8/production/0972ecfa5df5334dac7f43d0bc30ac1cd4742556-1920x1081.webp/voracious-capitalism-today-s-economic-model-squeezes-territories-and-people-as.webp?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format&q=85) Trend 02 # Voracious capitalism 1. [Crisis Trends 2025Home](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025) 2. [Trend 01Climate emergency](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/climate-emergency) 3. 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[Trend 10Silent genocide](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/silent-genocide) Voracious capitalism Today’s economic model squeezes territories and people as if they were infinite resources, without considering the long-term consequences. Trend axes - Profit myopia - Colonial continuity - Economic overreach - Human disposability Some figures 94 Millions of tourists who visited Spain in 2024, an increase of 10% compared with the previous year. 6.27 Average score Spaniards gave the public health service, the lowest in the last 11 years. 6,000 Millions of euros a year that Spain would need to spend over the next decade to triple its current investment in water management. 70% Percentage of the coastline in the Valencian Community that has receded, due to building along the coast, reservoirs… ## Devour today, mortgage tomorrow Contemporary capitalism is no longer a framework for generating wealth but a machine that devours territories, communities and ecosystems without stopping to consider natural or social limits. What was once justified by the promise of progress and the common good today turns into dynamics that put immediate profit before any other consideration, consolidating an economic model that assumes an infinite supply of resources and lives. This approach shows itself on many fronts. Mass touristification turns cities and neighbourhoods into stages for global consumption, pushing out residents and making housing more expensive. Cuts in investment in health and other public services reveal how economic interest prevails even over fundamental rights, weakening social cohesion and leaving millions of people unprotected. At the same time, attempts to exploit natural areas for extractive or development projects show how far market logic is willing to trample the environmental balances that guarantee long-term survival. The destruction of ecosystems, the overexploitation of resources and the occupation of protected areas become visible symptoms of a model that puts profitability before sustainability. The systematisation of these practices is not the sum of isolated decisions, but the consequence of a web that makes profitability the only measure of value. In this scenario, the social fabric erodes, the environment degrades and collective rights are subordinated to the logic of accumulation. So-called voracious capitalism thus not only threatens the planet’s sustainability, but steers life towards an ever more unequal and fragile horizon. ## Cases 01 / 05 ## More on the trend ### References - [¿Por qué el proyecto de una fábrica de celulosa de Altri en Lugo es insostenible para Galicia?](https://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/20250330/10528924/proyecto-fabrica-celulosa-altri-lugo-insostenible-galicia.html) - [El efecto Guggenheim en Urdaibai: ¿puede la cultura justificar la destrucción de la naturaleza?](https://theconversation.com/el-efecto-guggenheim-en-urdaibai-puede-la-cultura-justificar-la-destruccion-de-la-naturaleza-257135) - [Cinco proyectos que generan conflicto ambiental en entornos naturales de España](https://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/20250323/10504017/cinco-proyectos-generan-conflicto-ambiental-entornos-naturales-espana.html) - [España incumple sus obligaciones en materia de salud un año más: la inversión en gasto público baja respecto a 2021 un 0,94%](https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/noticias/noticia/articulo/espana-incumple-sus-obligaciones-en-materia-de-salud-un-ano-mas-la-inversion-en-gasto-publico-baja-respecto-a-2021-un-094/) - [El Gobierno explica las causas del apagón: implica a Red Eléctrica y reparte las culpas con las empresas privadas](https://www.ondacero.es/noticias/sociedad/informe-gobierno-apagon-revela-vulnerabilidades-sistema-insiste-que-tuvo-origen-multifactorial%5F2025061768515c630221901ab1119a9f.html) - [Preocupación con las Lagunas de Villafáfila por una planta de hidrógeno verde](https://climatica.coop/lagunas-de-villafafila-hidrogeno-verde/) - [Spain sets a new record with 94 million international tourists last year](https://apnews.com/article/spain-tourism-record-housing-crisis-c9ef4af335ac6194dc4a71f73c4af4eb) - [Los españoles, cada vez más insatisfechos con la sanidad pública](https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2024/08/05/los-espanoles-cada-vez-mas-insatisfechos-con-la-sanidad-publica-cadena-ser/) - [Spain | Water emergency](https://www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/spain-water-emergency/) - [España colapsa por la falta de inversión en infraestructuras y la elevada deuda pública](https://www.elconfidencial.com/inmobiliario/inversiones-alternativas/2025-08-10/colapso-infraestructuras-publicas-tren-apagon%5F4188336/) - [¿Cuánto invertimos en infraestructuras? España es el cuarto país por la cola en inversión para infraestructuras de la UE](https://www.lasexta.com/programas/lasexta-clave/cuanto-invertimos-infraestructuras-espana-cuarto-pais-cola-inversion-infraestructuras%5F202507026865a3e977c930725865feb4.html) Pages 16–25 of the report [![Elitist impunity: Elite impunity consolidates an architecture of armoured privilege, where power operates outside any accountability.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0w1142l8/production/baf530d537b0a9e7d06f5d19be775100fe3ec9a8-1130x635.webp/elitist-impunity-elite-impunity-consolidates-an-architecture-of-armoured.webp?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format&q=85)](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/elitist-impunity) Next trend · 03 [Elitist impunity](https://www.zorraquino.com/en/trends/crisis-trends-2025/elitist-impunity)