Environmental Campaign in Pakistan

World has been industrializing rapidly as it did in the past as well. We humans realized its consequences pretty late. Environmental change is the biggest threat to the world collectively because of the excessive exploitation. Careless usage of natural resources now took us to the brink of destruction.

In the past few decades, we have lost nearly a million species. This for me is the biggest ever loss we have had because we cannot reverse it ever. Along with specie lost, the overall average temperatures have already risen by more than 1.5 degree centigrade. Now we face frequent droughts and the soil fertility has been lost in many parts of the world. Deforestation led to soil erosion and caused threat to poor regions of the world as majority of the population lives near water sources. Due to global warming and greenhouse effects, our cities face frequent attacks of heat island effect and hundreds of lives are lost yearly in most of the poor countries. Concrete structures standing high in our cities increase the surface area, so the level of heat absorbed has now been substantially greater than before. Agriculture is affected by droughts and heavy unprecedented rainfalls; which is the main source of livelihood for many poor. Environmental changes turn out to be most expensive for the poor. Glaciers on the North Pole and inland glaciers are melting at a higher rate than ever before and could drown half of the Bangladesh and the entire Maldives into ocean.

So all this together makes it pretty clear that the poor are to be the most effected by environmental changes. So it should be the poor or we on behalf of them to stand against such a devastation. It is now inevitable to act against further environmental changes as part of mitigation and adaptation strategies.

There is a global campaign fueled by majority of the youth against the decision makers of the world; who for their short-term goals placed everybody at risk. This movement was initiated by a Swedish girl "Greta Thunberg" by the name of "Fridays for Future" where by now millions of students and youth from different walks of life protest for climate justice. In Pakistan, few of the students introduced this global campaign in the higher educational institutes. Being a part of this campaign from the day one in the country; one thing to admire is that there it is not in shape of protest, rather its an awareness campaign.

Lets be a part of this campaign and start bringing change from ourselves.

Thank You.