Leo Brincat, the main opposition spokesman for the environment, noted (July 16) that CNN too has gone green "... almost becoming synonymous with tuning in to a Green channel". He added:"It is comforting to know that various world leaders have chosen to make the environment their calling card while others have initiated concrete climate change measures and others are still struggling hard to begin implementing their Green agendas".

The Union of the Mediterranean (UfM) launched lately by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as the current President of the European Union is also planning to invest heavily in what MEP Simon Busuttil, called "sounder environmental governance" (July 16).

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, made very clear references to the environment in his intervention during the official launch of the UfM in Paris.

Thomas R. Verny, a father, psychiatrist, family therapist and a pioneer in brain sciences and birth psychology, in his book The Secret Life Of The Unborn Child, revealed that "by creating a warm, emotionally enriching environment in utero, a woman can make a decisive difference in everything her child feels, hopes, dreams, thinks, and accomplishes throughout life". He has shown how mothers and fathers can contribute actively - before and during birth - to giving their child happiness and security for the rest of his or her life.

It is high time Maltese society and its politicians put also the first environment for man, the first world for the unborn child... the mother's womb... constantly on their Green agenda. Abortion affects an extremely important aspect of the first environment to the unborn child. There is much more than abortion, though the womb is where the wholesome development of the unborn child takes place during the nine months of pregnancy.

"Sustainable development" also of the child in the womb should be a main pillar of attention and active work of the Malta Council of Economic and Social Development.

At present, every year, the womb is the first environment to about 4,000 unborn children in Malta and Gozo and to about 200 million unborn children all over the world.

Maltese and European society must be much more aware about the very harmful effects the increased consumption of tobacco, drugs and alcohol, especially by the young generation, the bearers of unborn child, is having on the overall development of the unborn child in the womb. Appropriate action should be taken by the authorities to spare the unborn child these harmful effects.

There is much to learn also about the harmful effects toxic substances and other conditions of work on the places of work are leaving on the general health of working fathers and mothers and, consequently, on babies in their mothers' wombs.

Philip Camilleri, consultant oncologist at Northampton General Hospital in the UK, drew the attention of many when in 2005 he wrote about "exhaust fumes and their link to cancer in children... because of parental exposure to exhaust fumes around the time of conception, as a result of damage to the sperm DNA".

The mother's womb is normally the first environment to the unborn child.

There is also another type of environment to the unborn which should also be constantly on the "Green" agenda. Experimental medical laboratories!

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