Hard to tackle ecological deficit

There is an ecological crisis in the world threatening the future of us all.

World leaders, from U.S. President Barack Obama to a tribal chief in Papua New Guinea, are looking for a way out, confessing to have exploited nature.

The number of those who had to migrate due to the ecological crisis is not that low.

 In 1998, the number of those who had to emigrate due to environmental reasons like drought and deforestation reached 25 million, leaving behind twice the number of those who had to migrate due to war.

The same year, those who had to leave the places they live due to natural disasters made up 58 percent of the world's refugees.

 We now know that these natural disasters are taking place due to the activities of humans and that they are fast increasing.

In other words, there are a lot people who are leaving their houses and hometowns and Turkey is not exempt from that.

The more we eliminate forests, the more we dig below the soil, the more we continue on pressing ahead with investments that are depleting water sources and polluting the air, the more we fuel we put in the fire.

The concept of growth and development become meaningless at that point. We cannot explain "detrimental growth" with rationality and logic.
 
The Cerattepe case in Turkey

As public reaction has increased about the mine in Cerattepe, this is what Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, who argues it is his task to protect Turkey's air water and land, said:
 
"To make use of rich mine sources is also our task in the framework of our country's economic richness. The challenge is to do both without contradicting each other. We don't need to prefer one over the other. Technology has developed to such degree...