ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION

TODAY IS WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY.BUT IS EVERYONE AWARE OF THAT? HERE I AM WRITING THIS BLOG IN MY AIRCONDITIONED ROOM.WHEN I GO OUT I USE MY AIR CONDITIONED CAR.BUT YOU CANNOT DO ALL YOUR WORK IN AIRCONDITIONED PLACES.

I AM A COPD (CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE) PATIENT.SO WHEN I GO OUT OF MY FLAT OR WHEN I GET OUT OF MY CAR  MY WHEEZING STARTS.I KEEP MY BED ROOM WINDOWS ALWAYS CLOSED AND SLEEP IN THE AIR CONDITIONED ROOM.BUT WHEN MY MAID DUSTS THE FLOOR NEXT MORNING HEAPS OF DUST COME OUT.EVEN IF I DUST MY WHOLE FLAT ALMOST DAILY THE NEXT DAY THE PLACES ARE COVERED WITH DUST.IT IS NOT AS IF MY FLAT FACES THE ROADSIDE.IT IS A BIT INSIDE THE BUILDING COMPLEX AND ON THE SECOND FLOOR . DESPITE THIS THE DUST SOMEHOW MIRACULOUSLY APPEARS.THUS POLLUTED IS THE ENVIRONMENT IN CHENNAI.

THE SAME WAS TRUE FOR KOLKATA WHERE I LIVED TILL RECENTLY. A LITTLE BIT LESS SINCE I LIVED IN THE SUBURBS.WHEN I GO OUT TO SOME VILLAGE I FEEL IT EASY TO BREATHE.BUT NOWADAYS EVEN VILLAGE AIR IS POLLUTED THE LEAVES OF THE TREES ARE COATED WITH DUST.SO IT IS VERY REFRESHING FOR THE EYES AND LUNGS TO SEE THESE TREES GREEN AGAIN AND FEEL THE COOL AIR AFTER A RAINY SHOWER.

I HEAR THAT INDORE HAS GOT THE AWARD FOR THE CLEANEST CITY IN INDIA CONSECUTIVELY TWO TIMES. IF INDORE CAN DO IT WHY NOT CHENNAI OR KOLKATA?CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT PROPER SERVICING OF VEHICLES SO THAT THEIR EXHAUST PIPES DO NOT EMIT POISON AND POLLUTE THE ATMOSPHERE.PUNISH THOSE VIOLATING THIS RULE .BUT OUR INDIA IS SO THAT THE TRAFFIC CONSTABLE WOULD TAKE BRIBE AND LET THE VEHICLES GO .

WHEN I WAS IN LONDON AND SWITZERLAND I COULD SEE THE BLUEST OF BLUE SKIES.THAT BLUE WE DO NOT SEE IN INDIAN CITIES.THE SKIES ARE ALWAYS GREY.
EXCEPT PERHAPS SUNDARBANS OR KASHMIR .EVEN JAIPUR AND UDAIPUR IN RAJASTHAN WERE COMPARITIVELY MUCH MORE CLEAN.I SAW SUCH BLUE SKIES IN
AGARTALA ,TRIPURA TOO.

WELL THAT WAS TRAFALGAR SQUARE IN LONDON AND MUSEUM IN AGARTALA.
WELL I AM IN AIR POLLUTED CHENNAI NOW AND HOPING AND PRAYING AND PROBABLY DREAMING  THAT SOME DAY CHENNAI WILL ALSO GET THE AWARD FOR THE CLEANEST CITY.

THERE ARE SEVERAL ARTICLES IN THE PAPERS TODAY ABOUT PLASTIC POLLUTION.AND SRISRI RAVISHANKARJI IS LIVE ON FACEBOOK RIGHT NOW TALKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

THERE WAS A PICTURE TODAY IN THE HINDU PAPER TODAY .LOOK.


THE  PICTURE WAS OF CHANDIGARH .MOUNTAINS OF PLASTIC WASTE.WE PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS.WE SELFISH HUMAN BEINGS CARE ONLY FOR OURSELVES AND NOT FOR OUR PRECIOUS ENVIRONMENT.I DONOT KNOW IF MODIJI'S SWACCH BHARAT DREAM WILL EVER COME TRUE.

THE CHENNAI MUNICIPALITY HAS COME OUT WITH A COMMENDABLE IDEA OF SEGREGATING PLASTIC WASTE FROM EACH HOUSEHOLD AND TAKE CARE OF IT SEPERATELY SO THERE IS NO POLLUTION INVOLVED. BUT WHAT HAPPENS? THE SEGREGATED WASTE IS SOLD TO KABADIWALAHS BY THE HOUSE KEEPING PEOPLE IN EACH BUILDING COMPLEX.THERE IS BRISK BUSINESS OUTSIDE EACH APARTMENT COMPLEX IN THE EVENINGS.THE KABDIWALAHS EVEN GIFT SAREES AND OTHER THINGS TO THE HOUSE KEEPING PERSONS.!!!

TWO DAYS BACK I READ IN THE INTERNET ABOUT A SHARK WHO SWALLOWED 8 KG OF PLASTIC AND DIED ON THE SHORES OF THAILAND DESPITE PEOPLE TRYING TO SAVE IT.IT COULD NOT SWALLOW FOOD  AND DIED DUE TO MALNOURISHMENT.

THIS MUCH WE CARE FOR OUR ECOSYSTEM.HOW  WE CAN WE GET PLASTICS OUT OF OUR OCEANS? PLASTIC POLLUTION POSES A VERY BIG THREAT IN INFLUENCING ALL ECOSYSTEMS FROM CORAL REEFS TO THE MARINE CREATURES ULTIMATELY ACCUMULATING IN OUR OWN FOODS,



WELL THIS IS INDIA AND THIS IS CHENNAI!!!THERE WAS ANOTHER PICTURE IN THE HINDU NEWSPAPER TODAY.ABOUT PLASTIC AND POLLUTION.PLASTIC AS SUCH MAY BE A VERY VALUABLE THING TO MANKIND.BUT IT NEEDS PROPER DISPOSAL.


SEVERAL YOUNGSTERS AND YOUNG MINDED PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET RID OF PLASTIC WASTE FROM OUR CITY.THERE IS THIS VERY NICE TV AD SHOWING SEVERAL YOUNGSTERS  ON BIKES WITH RAKES FITTED AND CLEANING UP THE SEA SHORES.VERY COMMENDABLE AND SUCH ACTIONS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED IN REAL LIFE.MORE YOUNGSTERS AND ENVIRONMENT CONSCIOUS PEOPLE SHOULD COME FORWARD TO HELP CURB AIR POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN THE WORLD.

WELL HAPPY ENVIRONMENT DAY TO ALL OUT THERE.




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