In a statement today, on the occasion of World Environment Day (June 5) established by the UN, the PKK stresses that Cyprus is not outside the destructive path that the system is following globally, citing data showing that every three seconds, the planet loses forest area equivalent to a football field.
It also notes that "over 47 million acres of forest area larger than Denmark are lost every year" and that "nearly 80% of the world's wastewater is dumped into oceans and rivers untreated".
Furthermore, it states that "wetlands, drained for agriculture, are in 50% decline since the last century," and adds that "dozens of species of the world's flora and fauna are being lost every month. These alone are a bell to the ears of those who care about our future on the planet."
As the PKK adds, "the authoritarianism of the current government on environmental protection issues creates reasonable doubts even if it rationally utilizes the European funds intended for green development", while expressing its concerns, because it believes that the governors, with the interconnectedness that characterizes them, remain in words and some showcase projects, without creating the conditions and solid foundations for the upgrading of the environment of Cyprus.
The PKK calls on all environmental and ecological movements and groups to rally and cooperate for the formulation and assertion of policies that are friendly to people and the environment, for the establishment of an integrated state policy above the private interests of capital.
"The main objective of the Environmental Movement of Cyprus", it adds, "continues to be not only the placing of environmental and ecological parameters above private interests and the profitability of big capital, but also the development of joint actions to serve the well-intentioned interests of our people throughout Cyprus".
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