The smoke enters our lungs and blood streams badly harming our health
KARACHI: Despite seeing the detrimental effects of pollution on our environment, we continue with our practice of burning garbage. We see the dense smog as it takes over the Karachi city. The smoke enters our lungs and blood streams badly harming our health. Despite this, we do not bother to mend our ways, nor do we care enough to educate the poor garbage collectors. We need to take responsibility for our city and start addressing these issues, as it impacts everyone.
We all know garbage burning and littering our roads and streets with waste and leaving garbage to rot are polluting our environment. All this is leading to rising temperatures and climate change and upsetting weather patterns. Sometimes there is little rainfall and sometimes too much rain causing heavy floods. This is destroying crops. Food production is declining while our population is increasing at a rate where the population has become manageable. The environment in cities has become so polluted that it has become difficult to breathe. Governments in most of the world are taking steps against pollution and climate change, but our government and all those who matter are sitting idly by. In the context of environmental pollution and climate change, Pakistan is a sitting duck.
Khalid Waleed
Published in The Express Tribune, July 3rd, 2019.
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