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Okay, to start my arguments, I would like to rebut his arguments first.

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So, you say that the main source of economy is tourism.

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Well, that's not true.

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You may think that tourists only have a positive impact in society.

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And then I'm going to explain to you why you are wrong in my first argument.

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That I have said that is one of the main sources, but not the main.

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That is not a question.

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So, moreover, you said that pollution is really bad

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and pollution is important and the pedestrian area's main objective is to reduce the pollution.

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That's not true because as my friend Sofia said before, pollution, the only main purpose of creating a pedestrian area,

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just makes the pollution moving elsewhere.

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So as an example of it, Sofia said before, this is a pedestrian area, right?

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And you, for example, live here. And this is the school your kids need to go to.

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So there are only two ways to get to the school, this way or this way.

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Can you see that these two are the longest passes and this one is the shortest one?

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So you are only creating pollution around the pedestrian area.

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And because the pedestrian doesn't have an imaginary green barrier, it enters the pollution in the pedestrian area.

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But why don't you think about public transport?

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I will get to this.

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You said before that Tokyo is one of the cities with the largest pedestrian area, right?

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So, I'm going to talk about public transport in Tokyo and what it does affect.

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So, my third argument says that public transport isn't a good effective alternative.

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By that I mean the schedules of students and workers are quite dissimilar,

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and at peak hours, transport is really saturated.

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An example of this is Tokyo.

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I have here a graph of Tokyo metro line systems,

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And here are the percentage of the congestion rate, which means the percentage of people occupying that train.

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As you see here, the lowest congestion rate of any of a metro line in Tokyo is 181%.

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Yes?

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Don't you think that also the use of private car in creating traffic is also saturating the roads?

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It's true, but that isn't one of the main problems, because saturated roads could appear having more or less pedestrian areas.

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As I was saying, the Tōsai Line, the principal line of the metro of Tokyo, has a 199%. That's almost a 200% limit.

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People taking that train at that hour are saturated and can get many diseases contaminating the air of that train.

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So, talking about touristification again, as you said, that is one of the main sources of economy.

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You may think tourists also only have a positive impact. I don't think that.

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Because how can we measure the impact of tourism in a city?

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The touristification project is a new approach defined by the gentrification of tourism in some of the European cities.

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Bondora.com states that it is necessary to act on tourist-residents conflict.

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in order to avoid transportation of historic centers and creating places with the goal of giving tourists consumption.

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By that I mean, for example, 26 million tourists visited Venice in 2022,

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but this population, due to tourism, is causing Venice to sink and buildings start to deteriorate, destroying the city.

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As a result, the residents are furious and protesting against large cruise ships' tourists from entering the city.

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And finally, the economy has increased, but because of the onset of touristification, it creates a massive consumption and many retail shops need to close.

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Thank you.