Human activity is harming environment at a fast pace
THARPARKAR: Human activity is harming environment at a fast pace. This damage to the environment is affecting our ability to grow a sufficient amount of food and it is also affecting the sources of fresh water. Overall, the deteriorating environment is affecting human survival in many ways. The whole world should pay attention to reverse the trend of climate change. For this we need to change the way we are now living. We should try to curb the untrammelled consumerism if we want the human species to survive. It is uncontrolled consumerism which is the main cause of excessive burning of fossil fuel which results in the ever-increasing emission of greenhouse gases. It is emissions that are causing global warming.
After the industrial revolution, we have been constantly stressing the earth and using it for our own benefit. Instead of caring for the environment, humans have been making it worse.
Human activity is harming the Earth and causing air pollution, land pollution, water pollution, global warming. Non-biodegradable materials are being dumped underneath the soil and into the sea killing much of the marine life and leaving the land barren and infertile. Remember! We are just because of environment and the environment is just because of us.
Everyone should use biodegradable material and biodegradable substances which include food scraps, cotton, wool, wood, humans and animals waste, etc. which is easily decomposed by microorganisms to provide nutrients to soil. This is the way nature recycles. We should learn how to recycle and create innovative ways in which we help the environment. We should stop using non-biodegradable materials and non-biodegradable substances which included aluminum cans, bottles, plastic products, metal scraps, glasses and polystyrene, etc. which do not decompose easily by microorganisms and such materials remain in environment for a longer period which can be harmful to environment in many ways. Some non-biodegradable materials do not decompose for hundreds of years and instead become toxic. If we do not act rationally we would soon witness end of the human species and all living beings.
Dolat Chandani
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2019.
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