For the past several years I have been seeing that it is mostly laypersons who are writing on climate change
PESHAWAR: For the past several years I have been seeing that it is mostly laypersons who are writing on climate change posing themselves as experts of the issue. A few years ago a layman wrote an article in an English newspaper on climate change in which what he had to say was only that in the summer season people should eat raw onion to guard against heat. If this is the kind of people who are highlighting the issue of climate change, the effects of such efforts should be anybody’s guess. Such tactics are aimed to gain cheap popularity and wangle invitations to international conferences, opportunities for touring countries of the West at the expense of others.
Zeeshan Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2019.
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