A lot of noxious gas is being emitted on Carbon emissions by politicians. But rapidly India is getting polluted at alarming rate.
Todays' Hindu reports on the alarming levels of antibiotic pollutions at Patancheru. The scientist making the study calls the waters there 'a soup of different antibiotics' and 'a swim there exposes the body to antibiotic treatment'.
Another report in Times of India traces huge domestic wastes from UK to Chennai where it is recycled to dangerous uses. Sometime back it was reported that huge amounts of hospital wastes is being dumped in Kerala.
Ship breaking is another big foreign contributor for dangerous wastes being dumped on Indian soil.
Instead of delegation after delegation going on foreign junkets to attend conference after conference, why can't the Government ban
a) import of any type of waste that is not domestically re-used or re-cycled in the country of its origin.
b) ban manufacture of chemicals like drugs which are consumed but not manufactured in such countries.
c) ban import, production and consumption of dangerous chemicals whose use is banned abroad.
This may be easier said than done what with liberalisation and free trade, powerful lobbies, foreign exchange earnings,etc. However, the least that the Government can do is to ensure recipocity in these matters with individual countries. If import of garbage is banned in UK, India should ban import of garbage from UK and so on.
Time to take the wake up call.
...ponder
1 comment:
Mamayya,
Good one! I believe that your suggestions address peripheral issues though. It has to start from the ground up. I suggest the following:
(a) make it mandatory for schools to have environmental-friendly campuses so that children grow with a sense of pride towards their environment
(b) ban littering in public properties with strict fines. This would make life difficult initially. But, it would also generate valuable revenue for the environment.
(c)Designate more national and state park areas and put in considerable effort to make them good sites for holidays.
(d) open up competitive RFPs for people to come in and clean up hazardous sites, ground water, rivers and such.
(e) create new building codes that call for a decent portion of land on which buildings are built henceforth to be allocated for lawns/ landscaping. These percentages can vary from residential to commercial.
(f) Wake up the indian environmental ministry from the deep slumber they are in right now.
(g) provide incentives for cities, towns and states that are environmentally responsible. it could be federal tax breaks, fancy titles (such as loveliest city) or even straight cash gifts.
(h)Finally, pay me to clean up all the ground water resources.
Cheers
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