World Environment Day

World Environment Day

Darvesh Karim, PDCN Gilgit

We are blessed with some of the nature’s gifts on which our life is dependent. It includes air, water, land etc and they are very obligatory for our life and are serving the human beings to improve the quality of life. The collection of these natural resources is called the Environment.

Environment is the keyword in the modern world. It includes various issues like pollution, deforestation, extinction of rare species, depletion of ozone layer and destruction of natural habitat. Human beings are a part of nature so the changes in the natural environment have direct effect on their lives and society at large.

I believe that the problem of the environmental degradation can’t be understood in isolation from economic and political problems. It demands huge cost to protect our environment from the bad effects of the nuclearisation of the developed world. We are politically dependent on the major powers of the world and we can’t compel them to abstain from their destructive activities. The only thing we can do is to raise awareness among our people regarding the significance of a clean environment. I appreciate the efforts of all NGOs including KADO to undertake the challenging task to separate awareness of the ecology among the people of Hunza and elsewhere in the Gilgit-Baltistan. It is also pleasing that these organizations give our Earth its due right to survive.