Immediate action needed to save public health
It is common for Bangladeshi farmers of haor regions to confront flash floods every year. But this year, the early flash floods did not just destroy crops but also caused the death of several fish, frogs and livestock such as ducks. Possible exposure from open uranium pits across the border in India can also prove to be extremely hazardous to the people living in and around the haor areas. The thoughtless actions of human beings have already affected our natural environment. We have polluted the earth, its water and air far beyond its capacity to cleanse itself. Urgent measures are needed to check further degradation of the environment or a day will come when the environment around us will collapse to make survival a near impossibility. Nature has already started warning us in the form of unexpected disasters, deaths and diseases. It will take a foolish person to ignore these warnings
Zubair Khaled Huq, By e-mail
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