There is no doubt that we live in a time when we need to ask serious questions about energy for the future and start looking at alternative sources to fossil fuels. However, we cannot expect world governments to throw away what they use and embrace alternative sources without looking at cost benefits and profits. The education of the people and the patience to listen to other points of view within the ecological movement is key to success in this area. I hope to see a continuation of this attitude in future issues because too often we as liberals in the North tend to rush in and blame everything on big business interests and the developed countries and decide what the agenda should be for all countries. Far more serious is the effect of carbon monoxide on hydroxyl in the atmosphere.
Hydroxyl is nature's cleaner, removing many other harmful gases.
Carbon monoxide concentrations deplete this important gas. In the lower atmosphere, carbon monoxide produces ozone which damages foliage and may also cause respiratory problems. Every time a journalist is assassinated in Turkey another nail goes in the coffin of 'Turkish democracy'. Scores of Turkish journalists have been recently assassinated by the secret police of Turkey for no other reason than that they are reporting the state violation of human rights. Your report clearly highlights Turkey's policy of 'ethnically cleansing' northern Cyprus.