Experts believe that toxic chemicals and microbial contaminants, created by natural and anthropogenic activities, are rapidly becoming environmental hazards that threaten the natural environment and human health.
Talking to the media on Sunday, they opined that human health and environmental hazards have grown interlinked. In the race for economic development, gains and prosperity, our earth is becoming more vulnerable to climate change and pollution caused by anthropological activities with each passing day, they lamented. They further said that technological advances in agriculture and rapid industrialization have drastically polluted the land and water.
In this connection, renowned pulmonologist Dr Zeeshan from Jinnah Hospital Lahore said that the environment has serious effects on our health in a variety of ways, either directly by exposing people to harmful carbon-agents or indirectly, by disrupting life-sustaining ecosystems.
Noted expert Safdar Ali Shirazi said that for the past few decades, due to rapid urbanisation, the provincial metropolis has lost its aesthetically important urban tress, green cover and around all green scenic cover. Heavy metals, pesticides, organic pollutants, microplastics and emerging contaminants are posing health challenges.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2024.
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