Pollution beneath Lika reflects our troubled conscience

A major protest in Zagreb is a good thing, the article argues, but it does not reveal the core of the problem: why Croatia has spent years producing enormous amounts of waste and disposing of it with cold indifference.

The commentary asks why waste has been dumped and buried across the country. It also suggests that some of it may have been exported to Africa.

At the same time, it questions how people could remain indifferent while toxic waste was allegedly smuggled into Croatia from abroad. The pollution beneath Lika, it argues, reflects a broader failure of conscience.