TOXIC CRISIS

While the Greek financial situation is indeed urgent and requires immediate action from all sides, environmental issues are often obscured by the over-exposure of Greece’s financial hardship; this allows the continuation of practices responsible for the current predicament, which is often extremely costly and needlessly hamper recovery efforts, sometimes re-emerging under the guise of “Green Growth.” Such phenomena are taking on worrying proportions, and the country runs the risk of suffering crushing setbacks in areas of fundamental public utilities, such as energy and waste disposal, which could lead to permanent endangerment of public health and environmental degradation.