JAMMU: The civil society for development of Jammu and Kashmir today organized a awareness campaign on world environment day .The theme chosen this year was beat air pollution and this topic is of mass concern and invites us all to consider and act on to how we can change the manmade changes in nature to reduce the toxic and greenhouse gases in air which in turn cause global warming and climate change.
There is no doubt today that air pollution is a global public health emergency. It threatens everyone from unborn babies to children walking to school, to women cooking over open fires, on the street and inside the house, the sources of air pollution can be very different, yet their effects are equally deadly. Asthma, other respiratory diseases and heart disease are among the adverse health effects known to be caused by polluted air. Overall, air pollution is responsible for more deaths than many other risk factors, including malnutrition, alcohol use and physical inactivity
The campaign was led by President civil society for development of Jammu and Kashmir Puneet singh jamwal ,while talking to passersby ,he said that it's duty of each and every citizen of nation to be aware of causes and effects of air pollution and must contribute something of their own to save the environment, as the air we breathe in is getting polluted day by day
CSD chief said that now a day’s air purifier is getting very common and one can have a cylinder having fresh air of mountains. Now, the question is for, how long we can use this purifiers and for how long we can have fresh air from mountains. If everything sets rolls like this then we will not have fresh air anywhere in the world. He said that it's very unfortunate that most of educated persons being aware of the facts of air pollution and environmental change are doing nothing. He said Asia including India is largest contributor of green house gasses reason India being developing Nation and being one of the largest Populated areas and moreover the check on the toxic emissions by vehicle and industries is equal to nil.
The activists of the CSD J&K also took the pledge that they will aware each and every person of the state till the last breath so to save the environment for our future generations. Puneet singh jamwal also requested Governor Satya pal malik to personally look into the matter as there is dire need of setting mobile pollution checking units for vehicles and also requested him to install air quality control panels at important installations so that people should be made aware about environment and they should actually know what they are breathing in.
He further said that role of state pollution control board is very important as there are number of industries emitting pollution more than the permissible limits, polluted air is creating a health emergency children are most at risk, he said together we the citizens and Government can change the situation as it's not that late and save our environment for our coming generations.