Environmental degradation
MA Alim, Ex. Banker. Indira Road, Dhaka
"Look after this planet, it's the only one we have". This is a personal message from worldwide fund for nature president, The Duke of Edinburgh.Long before that came a warning from one of the greatest British philosophers, Bertrand Russell, which reads: "Man even if he does not commit scientific suicide, will perish ultimately through the failure of water or air or warmth". Many more messages & warnings have been issued by world scientists, distinguished persons, climatologists in this respect. Even the nature came out with its fury in different ways like tornado, acid rain, tsunami, flood, earthquake, landslide etc. These types of catastrophes are happening every day in some part of the earth. But we are unmoved & still damaging the only planet we live in. Destruction of forests, killing of animals, birds & other living species, pollution of rivers, air etc. are going on unabated. The earth is now facing the most dangerous threat from the Greenhouse Effect that makes it warmer thus causing the ice to melt. If it goes on unchecked from emission of gas from hundreds of thousands of industrial plants in the developed countries, it will cause serious damage to the ozone layer. With the melting of ice, the sea level will go higher by a few metres. If that happens, surely it will happen unless otherwise tackled, the rich countries which are mostly responsible for gas emission from their industrial plants will suffer less because they have money, technology & men to tackle it. But what about the poor countries having none of them?
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