plants,animals,water bodies and air pollution - status 50 yrs ago, present status, changes happened , possible causes and how to protect or recover the environment
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Environment Fifty Years Ago
50 years ago the environment of our planet was 100 times
purer and more beautiful than what it is today! There was less smoke and smog
in the atmosphere. Global warming had not become such an unmanageable problem.
Forests had not been cut so much! World population explosion had not affected
the beauty and purity of life so much.
Lambs, deer, hares and kids used to
frisk and frolic down the verdant valleys. Brooks, rills, rivers and streams flowed down
the slopes merrily! There were green meadows, pastures and terraced fields in
plenty! The pure blue sky with
cotton-like cirrus flitting merrily high above looked so beautiful!
The canker of industrialization had not converted the once heaven like towns
and cities into hell. The sylvan beauty, for which now we go to hill stations,
had not been replaced by factories and mills. The skyline dominated by tall pines
had not been replaced by an ugly sight of stacks spewing toxic fumes!
The clear rills and brooks that were picnic spots 50 years ago have now been
converted into drainage channels, carrying effluents to the rivers, which have become
a bigger channels carrying the muck to the sea! The entire world is losing its
beauty and purity. The mankind a silent witness to this ugly transformation is
waiting for some angel to come down and do the cleaning, preserving, and
pollution managing! That angel will never descend. The entire mankind will die
as a result of its own misdeeds if it does not make ENVIRONMENT its FIRST PRIORITY!
The need of the hour is conserving and preserving the environmental beauty and purity of the surroundings. This task is quite Herculean. The only solution to the critical environmental issues is people’s mass participation in saving the environment. Mass forestation drive, and stopping the use of fossil fuels altogether can solve this problem.
There are other alternative fuels available. The government must act strictly. There should be a ban on fossil fuels. The government must create forest belt near every city or town. Toxic emissions of industries must be strictly regularized. Installation of toxic smoke and effluents treatment plants must be mandatory at every industrial unit. With these measures strictly and immediately implemented the environmental health will improve considerably. Unless the people come forward, this mission cannot be accomplished. They must minimize their carbon footprint. They must adopt eco-friendly ways of life. Government alone cannot do anything. People will have to act proactively. We must not forget that if we have to stand in the categories of advanced nations, we will have to make our country as clean and green as them.