AMED - In the final declaration of the Amed (Diyarbakır) Ecology Assembly, it was stated that "It is of vital importance to defend our nature in an organised way with communes, commissions and assemblies to be established in all localities".

 

Amed Ecology Assembly announced the final declaration of the meeting where it declared its establishment on 15 June. In the final declaration, it was stated: "It is obvious that the struggle against the ongoing ecological and social destruction has so far been limited to fragmented, scattered or personal reactions, which is not sufficient against the systematic and organised destruction order. For this reason, it is of vital importance to defend our nature in an organised way through communes, commissions and assemblies to be established in all localities and to ensure organisation on a global scale starting from the local level. Because social disasters turn into environmental disasters and environmental disasters turn into social disasters, and society needs to put a stop to this trend as soon as possible."

 

THE IMPORTANCE OF ECOLOGICAL STRUGGLE

 

The following was stated in the final declaration: "Ecological destructions, which have increased in intensity in recent years due to the war waged in the Kurdistan geography for decades, should be the most important field of study of the ecological struggle. The peace process discussed on this axis should be embraced and it should be revealed that ecological life is a sine qua non of peace. It is obvious that the war is trying to destroy our living spaces, society and especially nature, and that it has caused the greatest destruction on nature. The cutting down of forests and the massacre of nature on the grounds of 'security' for years are obvious examples of the ecological destruction caused by war. The effect of wars in deepening the ecological crisis, forcing people to migrate from their living spaces and condemning them to poverty and hunger in the cities, it should not be forgotten that the struggle for social ecology is also a struggle against war.

 

The domination of society over nature and the domination of men over women feed each other. The women's struggle together with the ecological struggle will give a serious impetus to the abolition of domination over nature. For this reason, it was emphasised that both struggles are inseparable and complementary. The political power is not only handing over the whole country to domestic and international capital, but also making the areas where thousands of species live uninhabitable. Hundreds of gold mines and quarries are being handed over our natural beauties, mountains, plains and lands.

 

In areas such as Cixsê, Pirejmon, Kasor, Gavgas, Çömçeli, where ecological destruction is intensely experienced, citizens from the regions and villages and representatives of non-governmental organisations working in these areas stated that it is indispensable to struggle together against the destruction of nature, the massacre of living spaces and the forced migration of the people carried out by international and national companies. For this reason, it has been insistently stated that the mass actions and activities to be carried out in the regions and villages where the destructions are experienced should be carried out at a result-oriented level and should be reflected to the world public opinion on the right basis and with various actions. The destruction of our forest areas by capitalist companies with the greed for profit eliminates the areas of all life as a whole. In this way, deforestation is carried out as a policy on the whole society.

 

EMPHASIS ON ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY MODEL

 

In addition to this, agricultural areas are rendered unusable and the economic areas of the society are severely limited, especially with the activities carried out under the name of oil exploration and other mineral exploration activities, HEPPs and SPPs. The plundering of the habitats of living creatures has led to the decline of animal husbandry, and in some areas, bovine and ovine husbandry and beekeeping activities have come to the point of extinction. These developments pave the way for the society, which is unable to carry out activities in its economic areas, to be forced to migrate from the land where it has lived for thousands of years. Regulatory and preventive activities should be carried out for this, and we should work for the vitalisation of ecological economy models, especially cooperatives.

 

Agricultural poisons used in industrial agriculture adversely affect both nature and public health. Increasing infant mortality rates and metabolic diseases caused by pesticides and pollution seriously threaten public health. For this reason, the construction of ecological life should also make significant contributions to ensuring public health. We know that the struggle for an ecological society will only be possible by making a hierarchy-free, classless and exploitation-free social order dominant by taking a multidimensional approach from a perspective that observes the balance between society and nature, which transcends both anthropocentrism and nature-centrism. In order to raise awareness and awareness in the field of social ecology, as well as to ensure the participation of society in the construction of ecological life, education was emphasised, and the establishment of an ecology academy within the assembly was mentioned as a result of the meeting. A parliamentary coordination based on equal representation was elected by the components that proposed themselves in order to carry out the agreed work, to disseminate it and to ensure coordination within the assembly. It was agreed that the assembly will come together every three months.

 

* All kinds of destruction carried out on living spaces, especially the loss of biodiversity, pollution of waters, basins, soil and air, should be mapped, and planning should be carried out in a way that can be monitored and observed and frequently updated.

 

* We must communise energy, water and soil, which are the vital assets of society, resist domination over them and raise the struggle.

 

* In order to overcome the eco-phobia experienced by children, a pedagogical education curriculum equipped with ecological principles should be created for children to establish a relationship with nature.

 

* Studies should be carried out to ensure that they learn in nature.

 

* The organisation of assemblies to be built around democratic communal values, which are the antidote to the destruction created by class-state capitalist civilisation, stands before us as the only way out against this organised evil.

 

* The assembly components have assumed the responsibility of organising the dissemination of the assemblies, which are decision-making mechanisms where all segments of society can express themselves, and the establishment of them in other provinces and districts."