AD insists on its Green credentials
Alternattiva Demokratika was always consistent in defending Malta and Gozo's natural heritage, unlike those who discovered the environment just "weeks before elections only to forget it soon after", the chairman of the Green party, Arnold Cassola said.
An MEP candidate, Prof. Cassola was hosted by environmental NGO Nature Trust at Wied Għollieqa to visit the nature reserve together with the party's other MEP candidate Yvonne Ebejer Arqueros.
Having candidates spouting environmental rhetoric while keeping business as usual was not serious politics, he said. "Unfortunately, despite the rhetoric, the little remaining countryside is still constantly under threat, the latest example being Wied il-Għasel in Mosta," Ms Ebejer Arqueros said.
Prof. Cassola said his party had worked hand in hand with NGOs and residents in favour of the environment and against the scourge of overdevelopment.
AD, he said, would remain consistent and true to its values and principles and, together with the Green Group in the European Parliament, would work more effectively for a better quality of life for all.
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Margaret Richards
Apr 24th 2009, 10:23
Why you are not impressing anyone any more Dr. Cassola??? You can visit all the valleys and alleys of Malta and Gozo but please do stop saying that - quote "those who discovered the environment just "weeks before elections only to forget it soon after", unquote. That is mean and it shows desperation and sour grapes on your part. AD WAS NOT the founder of the environment issue in Malta, but it just followed what was already launched by Dr. G. Borg Olivier and Ambassador Arvid Pardo. Stop playing 'the FOUNDER of environmental issues', and stop crying because other parties took your cue. It's a global issue, or haven't you realised that??? As for Ms.Ebejer Arqueros since we never even heard her voice, just by visiting a valley is not as if that's a big feat. When you stop moaning of being robbed of your environment issue and really start working on other issues maybe AD will move forward. Even though now it's too late in the day!!!
Joe Zammit
Apr 13th 2009, 11:55
In par. 463 of the Compendium of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church we read: "A correct understanding of the environment prevents the utilitarian reduction of nature to a mere object to be manipulated and exploited. At the same time, it must not absolutize nature and place it above the dignity of the human person himself. In this latter case, one can go so far as to divinize nature or the earth, as can readily be seen in certain ecological movements that seek to gain an internationally guaranteed institutional status for their beliefs".