Pakistan and Climate Change - Respect the Environment
(Excerpt from Asif Mahmood's article)
According to unofficial statistics, the temperature in Pakistan has risen by two degrees in just two years. Does anyone have time to sit and think about what life will be like here after five or ten years? If there is another country, it might be tolerated, we are an agricultural country. What will be our future?
That must have been about ten years ago. It was not an easy task to go far on the Margalla trail in winter. In the afternoon of December, when they were sitting in the shade of the forest, their teeth would start chattering.
The winter of Margalla is still beautiful and when the cold comes here she comes and puts up her tent, but the truth is that where is the first thing.
In the middle of November, on the small river of Dara-e-Kawani, the 'kicker' used to freeze in the early morning. Now these scenes are found somewhere in January.
Go back a few years, where you lost your childhood. There was a large field outside the village school. Before the December holidays it was known that the field had a layer of 'cooker' and we used to collect it and make slats for ourselves.
During the December holidays in the villages, around the tube wells and on the banks of Kohl, it was as if nature used to sprinkle snow. Now the winter in the villages comes like a guest and leaves. Where is the winter, and where is the cold?
Although global warming is a fact but even more frightening is the fact that the rate of warming rising in Pakistan is higher than the international rate. ۔ This average is extremely disturbing.
If the intensity of heat increases then man will be affected and if the duration of hot season increases then the whole proportion of agricultural production of the country will be left in disarray. That being the case, wheat production could be severely affected in just a few years.
Do you know what it means to be affected by wheat production? It simply means the end of food security and economic ruin. Even now, the situation is that we have spent 10 10 billion to buy wheat and sugar from abroad.
On the other hand, all the conditions of the IMF have been accepted for a loan of only one billion dollars. A slight increase in wheat production could have saved a billion dollars, and the logical consequences of the IMF's terms could have saved the people from ruin and destruction.
The environment is a strange and trivial subject for us. We do not take it seriously. But according to figures from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, Pakistan alone is losing about 4 billion a year due to environmental issues alone. It should be noted that only 1 billion could be raised from the IMF by drawing a line through the nose. If so, guess where it will go from here?
The trees are being cut down, the birds are dying, who cares. No one even realizes the devastation that shopping bags have caused. A few days ago, the Ministry of Environment took action on Twitter to impress the outside world that the use of plastic shoppers is prohibited. Now shoppers are available, Zartaj Gul is nowhere to be seen.
It would have been better if this ban had been ensured only in the big markets of Islamabad. But this filth is everywhere. People go to Margalla Trails and there are also shoppers.
How many innocent birds die because of them. "Flora and Fana" perished, but shoppers could not perish. Sometimes fear comes from the ignorance and brutality of this society. It seems that they are not human beings, they are 'two legs'.
The sign of pollution these days is that it is becoming difficult to breathe in Lahore. According to statistics, although the air quality of Islamabad is twice as good as that of Lahore, but how does the climate of Islamabad compete with a densely populated city like Lahore? It is a sign of air pollution that when you sleep at night, you start to stop breathing.
We have the opportunity to report on a channel that AQI (Air Quality Index) has been in this city today. Air quality is not important to us at all, nor is it news.
For us, the story of weather and atmosphere is just like where it rained, where the weather was dry and where the sun will be in the next 24 hours and where the clouds will rain with thunder and lightning. Was considered
When we take out a procession, we burn the tires and pollute the air. When they see flowers in the park, they break them. They cut down trees and make furniture in the house. After hunting birds and animals, they fill the bonnet with the car and share its pictures.
It seems that as a nation we have just settled accounts with the Ministry of Population Welfare, not paying any attention to training.
The head of the Islamic Ideological Council, Dr. Qibla Ayaz, said that my columns on Margalla and environment have been made part of the agenda of the Islamic Ideological Council. I am grateful to them. If we can play a role in this and make the environment the subject of the mosque and the pulpit, then a great change can take place at the social level.
If the concept of 'Quranic Garden' is promoted in every madrassa where there is scope, it can make a big difference. This concept has taken shape in some places, and some madrassas have planted every tree and plant in their Quranic garden Is mentioned in the Qur'an.
Establishing a tree-friendly and environmentally friendly society has become imperative. It is important to understand that this is not just a matter for the government to do, it is a duty for the whole society.
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