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International Cosmonauts Ecological Mission in Siberia - 1994

International Cosmonauts Ecological Mission in Siberia - 1994

Jacek Pałkiewicz
2006-06-17 16:40:39

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Protect the Earth!

Six international cosmonauts are remaining on the earth to take part in an ecological mission designed to draw attention to the dangers facing our earth. At the last moment, they want to prevent the earth from becoming as uninhabitable as the moon.

Cosmonauts In Siberia

When I was up there and experienced that wonderful adventure in space, the most exciting moments were precisely those that involved observing the Earth", the celebrated cosmonaut, Vladimir Djanibekov once admitted. "Seen from the space station the Earth looked like a sparkling jewel, but it wasn't until one looked at one of the many points more closely that one discovered things that can't be seen from the Earth's surface." Man has upset the balance of nature to a dangerous level. The ecological picture is deeply distressing: whole oceans are dying, flooding is destroying large tracts of land without natural protection, some lakes have almost reached extinction point. At the same time energy requirements are on the increase, population growth has got out of control, many different species are condemned to extinction, air pollution has far exceeded the tolerance level, not to mention the destruction of forests by the logging industry. The world prefers to ignore the insane crimes against nature perpetrated by the industrialised nations, even when it is against our own interests.

I asked some of the heroes of space travel, eye-witnesses to the catastrophic state of our planet's health, to take part in an expedition to the heart of Siberian order to draw attention to this problem. This initiative, authorised by President Yeltsin and undertaken under the patronage of the Moscow City Bank and MTK (the Moscow television station), was intended to be a message of love and respect to a nature which has been so cruelly abused. We wanted to find confirmation that the still uncontaminated "islands" still ...