Kremlin Destroying Environment and Environmental Movement Russia’s Green Think Tank Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Nov. 24 – On the pretext of supporting Russian business in response to Western sanctions, the Kremlin has largely eliminated government oversight designed to protect the environment and is working to crush the last remnants of the independent environmental activist community, according to Russia’s Green Think Tank organization.
    The result is that “Russia’s militarized economy is now ruining the environment and that “the situation will likely deteriorate further regardless of the war’s outcome” because the Putin regime shows no signs of being willing to restore the regulations it has scrapped or allow the environmental movement to recover (theins.ru/politika/276364).
    The consequences for Russia and Russians are increasingly horrific, the Green Think Tank says; but they are also serious for other countries and peoples because the consequences of Moscow’s approach are spreading into other countries because environmental contamination is no respecter of national borders.
    As a result, the group says, what Russia is doing to the environment must become a matter of concern to governments and peoples in other countries before it is too late and the consequences Russians are already suffering from spread to them as well.