Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted again on social media regarding the debate on development projects in protected areas and the protests against investment in Zvërnec.
In his message, Rama harshly criticized commentators who, according to him, use offensive language and personal attacks on social networks, calling on them to respect environmentalists, concerned citizens and their right to protest.
"Treat me as much as you want, because your insults and curses are all that matters to me, my health and my will," the head of government writes, as he calls for a tone-down in the public debate.
Rama further cited the famous Camargue region in France, one of Europe's most important wetlands, as an example to argue that nature protection and economic development can go hand in hand.
According to him, Camargue is a model where biodiversity, lagoons and flamingos have been preserved, while the area has simultaneously become an important tourist and economic destination.
"The question is not whether nature and the economy can coexist. The question is whether we have the vision to turn nature into an asset of the economy," Rama emphasized.
The Prime Minister underlined that the Camargue experience proves that it is not necessary to choose between nature and development, but to find a model where both benefit, adding that when the landscape becomes part of the economy, people have more interest in protecting it.
REACTION
???? Two words to start with about the revolutionaries who enter here and on the social media pages of anyone who thinks differently from them. Since they can't put four sentences together to form a concept, they compensate for the gap with screaming sentences, where curses and monosyllabic calls stand out:
Leave the real environmentalists to their work and their right to protest, leave the real defenders and lovers of nature to their work and their right to protest, leave the concerned citizens to their right, but definitely leave the flamingos to their comfort and color, and don't make their feathers brown with the scum of street language!
Deal with me as much as you want, because your insults and curses only benefit my health and willpower, but you have polluted the entire Albanian-speaking mexhelisi of social networks with your vocabulary of 40 words where 20 are insults and dirt!
?? And now another example????
When talking about wetlands, lagoons and protected areas, it is often given the impression that the only way to protect them is to disconnect them from economic life.
But the Camargue in France tells a completely different story.
Located in the Rhône River delta, the Camargue is one of the most important wetlands in Europe. An extraordinary landscape with lagoons, marshes, coastal dunes, salt marshes, pink flamingos, the famous white horses of the Camargue and hundreds of species of birds.
A paradise of biodiversity. But also an economic engine.
Today the Camargue is an international destination with boutique hotels, restaurants, marinas, nature tourism, horse riding, bird watching, traditional salt production and a local economy that lives precisely thanks to the landscape it has preserved.
France did not protect the Camargue by keeping civilization away from it.
It protected it by making it valuable for its civilization.
Understanding that nature is not necessarily the opponent of development. Sometimes it is even development itself. That
is why today the flamingos are still there.
The lagoons are still there.
Biodiversity is still there.
Therefore, the question is not whether nature and the economy can coexist.
The question is whether we have the vision to turn nature into an asset for the economy.
Because when the landscape becomes part of the economic model, people are no longer indifferent and often its destroyers and polluters.
They have an interest in protecting it.
And this is the true lesson of the Camargue: It did not choose between nature and development, but found a way for both to win together.