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 The
inaction constitutes undoubtedly the biggest and best ally of every
kind of conservative and regressive mentality.
The
unconditional surrender to a fatalistic and pessimistic way of life
can not constitute, by no way, the choice of youth.
Young people
that are concerned and worried by nature, have to give the trigger
for a more progressive counter attach, which will fetch in the
foreground, subjects that concern the society. The problem of the
environmental downgrading is not of course new; however, this
downgrading has to be examined in the light of a generous and daring
attitude.
We should break the
relationship between the development and the destruction of the
natural resources. The innovation, the new technologies and the
investments constitute the keys for a successful strategy. The
technology is like a coin – with two sides. “She” is the reason of
many environmental problems and simultaneously the key for their
settlement. Undoubtedly, the old, long standing technologies that
dominate the fields of transportation, energy, industry and
agriculture, are aggravating the fundamental sources of our
survivor, means the clean water, air and the fertile ground.
In all these sections,
there are ready or almost ready new technologies. These technologies
can deteriorate the environmental charge, in case they are applied
widely and properly, and thus these can solve many of our problems.
We are obliged to
select the technological change with astonishing rapid rate.
The saying that, “it
is contradicted to have an economical progress and simultaneously
preserve of a good environmental level”, is a myth.
It is now the time to
exploit the resources, the technology and our mind, so as to
eliminate the poverty and the environmental downgrade.
Thus, we call you all
to be active in order to make known the use of new technologies and
to make people more informed and more sensitive in this field.
For us there is a
difficult but privileged role, this of the innovative and we have to
respond.
STAVROS MILIONIS
President of KEAN
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