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“Plant treed and save environment”

Environmental change is real and there is no denying it. In some parts of the world the change in environment is drastic but what’s more drastic is the ignorance of the people there.

Pakistan is one of such countries, where people are filled with ignorance when it comes to saving environment.

I still remember last year, when I was giving lecture on topic of “Man and his environment” and during the lecture I passed comments on the environment of my home town Lahore being destroyed. Year 2016 was one of the hottest years in last two decades, when temperature during the summer reached 49+ °C on a day. After my comments, one of the student in class (A haffiz,e,Quran with beared) said that this planet is made for us and not the other way around. His comments shook me to tell core. As a teacher I had to explain him the severity of the environmental situation and also of his ignorance about the planet that is a gift of God to us. I explained how we are disrespecting this precious gift.

With alarming levels of pollution in Lahore city, it becomes difficult to breath in certain area. People with little or no awareness at all, burn their house wastes including plastics and organics.

Today, as I was passing through cannal road in Lahore, I saw multiple banners along the road stating importance of planting trees. This was a govt. Initiative under the ministry of forestry. I stopped at a side, just to take a picture of one of these banners. Just seeing this gave me a surge of joy. At last, someone started some good work in protection of environment.

This gave me motivation to start an environment protection campaign/efforts at however small level I can. This is the only planet we have, let’s not spoil it.

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