Combating Smog
From the Blog fatimaarif We were waiting for some respite from the heat and all set to welcome the winters but got blindsided by smog. The question is, did we really get blindsided by it or are we paying the price of ignoring the warning signs? Human-made smog is a combined result of coal emissions, vehicular emissions, industrial emissions, forest and agricultural fires and photochemical reactions of these emissions. Punjab is witnessing the havoc that smog is capable of creating since late October. Yesterday I read in The News that, Dr Pervaiz Amir, an eminent environmentalist speaking at an event in Karachi said; "In the days to come, Karachi may face extreme dust storms, devastating cyclones and hurricanes in the Arabian Sea as well as smog." This should be a wakeup call for anyone who thinks thapakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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