Read at : Google Alert – desertification
Of heat, humidity and chopped trees
By: Aamer Waqas
LAHORE – One is certain that previous Aprils and Junes were not as harsh as this year’s, and it is equally true that the coming months, and years will be harsher on us as well since the administration of the metropolis has been reckless to nature in far worse manner in its effort to make the provincial capital wear modern look of foreign cities.
Now what we, especially those sans ‘powers to run generators’, are going through is muggy and humid weather with a lot of trouble, but it appears to be a perfect case of negligence when both the nature and rulers are unkind to their people.
Multiple reasons can be attributed to this stuffy weather, but most important of these is our, as a society, and of our continual rulers – state functionaries – and governments of all shades, callous attitude towards nature, and it seems that we all as collective beings of this country are bent upon destroying everything around us. In this regard, major responsibility lies with the government, but one see that it does not turn even its ears to huge cries made by the public for taking serious notice of massive chopping of trees in various district, which was adding to desertification and land degradation besides depriving people of their source of livelihood.
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