Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Kingdom of Spiders

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. - Earl Nightingale

In the modern age of science and technology, our thrust is more on development and the importance of environment is generally ignored. It is an established fact that the environment problem in the development countries is due to the advancement of scientific and technological development, whereas the environmental problems of developing countries have the lack of development. Environment and development are complimentary and supplementary to each other and should go hand in hand. In fact, there is a need to maintain a proper balance between the two.
Today environment has moved into the main stream of issue that concern the entire international community. Such terms as eco development, ecological security, sustainable development and environmentally sound development have came into widespread use of focusing of our understanding of relationship between environment and development, that without conservation we cannot have development and without development we cannot have conservation.

Industries indispensable for the growth and economy of a modern society have been identified as the chief contributor to the environment degradation. With the environmental issues being brought to the forefront of political and economic agendas, industry is forced to react to two challenges: a growing awareness of the need for environmental protection and the unrelenting competition in the global market. Waste from industries can take the form of atmospheric emission, solid waste and liquid discharges. Waste is inherent to the process adopted but its quality can be controlled by optimal usage of quantities of raw material, suitable temperature and pressure etc.

In Pakistan, water borne discharge from industries has been recognized as most hazardous. As broad estimate based on KWSB supply figure 250 million gallons of untreated water is thrown into the Arabian Sea every day. In the vicinity of Karachi, industrial pollution discharges combined with mangrove destruction and over fishing have resulted in a sharp decrease in shrimp production, which translated into lower foreign exchange earnings. SITE, the largest center of wide range of industries, is responsible for more than 80 percent of the pollution carried by Lyari to Sea. The Malir River receives industrial effluents from Landhi and Korangi where the leather tanneries, the major polluters, are located.

Unregulated industrial emissions also give rise to severe health and environmental problems, especially when these factories are located in our near human settlements. Severe draughts are likely to occur frequently in the earth’s lower and middle latitudes over the next century if man continues to increase, the amount of polluting gases sent into atmosphere. Sea level around the world has risen about 30 centimeters over the past century due to global warming. The depleting Ozone layer poses serious threat to human health and environment. Medical scientists translate that every one percent drop in Ozone leads to two percent increase in skin cancer, as a result of great exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays.

Consequently, in the developing countries including Pakistan, industrialization must continue to meet social and economic needs and to close the gap between rich and poor. But the nature and quality of growth need not to follow the path taken by industrialized counties. Learning from the disastrous mistakes of those nations, developing countries have the opportunity to produce more goods from few inputs, using clear and suitable methods. To avoid rapid increase in pollution and resource degradation that can accompany industrialization, waste recycling and reuse need to be adopted as the standard practice. Or we may end up in the kingdom of spiders where every creature will be forced to move up the food chain resulting in the ultimate destruction of life as we know it.

14 comments:

  1. due to our carelessness our future generations well face the consequences...

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  2. welcome to the blog maria.. and nice work :) hope we start caring for our environment

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  3. Nice work by misterio......one thing which I have observed about our society is not to care about minors and try to be more caring for majors,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this really destroy everything,,,,,,, like in Germany every house have two sort of waste bins,,,,,, one for biodegradable and other for undegradable,,,,, and I am sometime stunned while looking at a very little kid of just 5 or 6 years, separating bio from nonbio......... so we have to bring change at root level where every body will learn to be responsible and not unconcerned and neglectful.........bcoz we use to do the way we are grown up..... thats what I think can be solitary solution to this catastrophe

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  4. thanks israr...yup we should hope for the best but prepare for the worst as well.

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  5. adian one thing i have observed too that you didn't see the name of author have a look again. and minor things are by us and for the major things we ourselves are responsible so the whole ABC of environment is upset in the recent few years. we can control the roots but what about those idustrialists who are saving money in industrial units. this is now an incurable disease in the under developing countries and specially in pakistan river banks are mended after floods and sometimes even floods are not sufficient to make us awake.so a debatable but incurable topic just like the web of spider which is increasing its size in each mint and the pray of spider is of coarse non other than homo sapiens.and it is said that if the third world war will occur it will be just because of water.but still there is a ray of hope.

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  6. you welcome... maybe adian thought that this blog is by misterio vida so all the postings automatically attributed to him... no offense to you..its just a technical oversight on his part...im sure adian still appreciates this work and is worried about the environment as much as we are :)

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  7. we do not make important decisions, the politicians should do that-one may say, but in my view we can also help with just little steps-less use of water, detergents, recyciling etc

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  8. Isn't it scary that sometimes "progress" is equated with the usurping parts of the environment that cannot be replenished and gradual forms of destruction of environment.

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  9. my pleasure to be a part of this blog as an author. yup i know that was a technical oversight view from his side no problem with that at least he read it which was the main purpose of writing this piece of writing and the purpose was fulfilled so m happy even with that technical problem i mention it just to inform him and nothing else hopefully adian will appreciate my next article.

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  10. yup ola you are write but as you know that poison is poison it works in even small amount so any thing which is to be dumped should be treated before its a common practice in foreign countries but our science and technology ministry is sleeping so our part starts from us than our room that is our life style which is no doubt now full of chemicals starting from the tea whitener which is again a synthesized chemical not milk, so the issue is quite complicated and need atension of all areas of life as it is a food chain web and none of its part can be ignored.

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  11. eyes .............. its not only scary but a thing to be gone through by us just like compulsory question in exam when we are not prepared for it which is a much more terrible situation.

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  12. Maria u have done ur job well bt I think we r also responcible for that, we eat any fruit or drink a juice n throw the waste anywhere without any care. We as citizen should do care at our level and make others to do this. There is a need to take step at our own level.

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  13. thanks for the compliment kiran...yup i have mention above that the responsibility starts from ourselves first starting from our room just like we want to see our room neat and clean the same thought should be for the environment.

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  14. but there is a need to formulate a national policy for environment...

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