Without Ecology, There Will be No Air, And There Will be No People
Excerpts from the speech by Oleh MASHKOV – Leading Researcher at the Center for Strategic Analysis and Environmental Security, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, at the roundtable of the Institute for Global Politics “Problems and Prospects for Creating a New European Security System in the Context of Russia’s Aggressive Foreign Policy” on December 11, 2025/
- “We consider the entire environment, including the atmosphere, air, soil, water environment, landscape, people, animals, plants…
- Environmental security is aimed at human health.
- We are developing an environmental security management system that has no global analogues.
- The first component of the system is obtaining reliable information.
- European statistics says that one year of war means 10 years of demining.
- The second component of the system is information processing.
- The next component of the system – an organizational decision – who will make management decisions?
- The issue of environmental security is not solely an issue for the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture…
- …everyone should be involved in environmental security. And first and foremost – the National Security and Defense Council.
- It should consider environmental security as a component of national security.
- Without ecology, there will be no air, and there will be no people.”
Institute for Global Politics
