You are to write an article on the state of the environment in your area
Write your report including a mention of what is being done to reduce pollution — how harmful pollution can be — in what ways pollution is a threat — the forms of pollution which affect the environment — what solution there can be — what other factors affect the environment — ecological disbalance — why concern for environment is important — prediction for future — concrete suggestions for improvement.
Although it is a big town, it is not a city. Its polluting agents are not as numerous as in big cities. But yet our unhygienic living, the explosion of two-wheeled vehicles, and frequent power failure let loose the forces of pollution.
Firstly, the municipal drains are shabby and choked with dirty effluents. The hospitals, in general, are ill-kept and the ward servants recklessly throw the waste products in areas that should be forbidden for such purposes. The town, when it sprang (= was born), was a haphazard entity. Its roads or drains were not planned on the rules of town planning. Then, however, it was no problem as everything was within reasonable limits. But, today, population explosion, unplanned roads, growth of offices, institutions and other kinds of establishments have naturally clogged the outlets of the town’s effluents. The narrow roads are cluttered (= jammed) with spate (= flood) of two-wheelers and autos thus choking them with smoke and dust. The town remains in the dark, for the most part, owing to power failure. In consequence, the thud of the generators and their foul gas cause a foul environment. It is a deadly feature.
Power failure sets in some awesome situations. Those who are not able to afford to make do/manage with kerosene lamps. But those that are able, to instal heavy generator sets, calmly project the exhaust tube on to the road. We bear this lying down as a protest against such inhuman actions is not in our blood.
We have an aluminium factory close to the town. It is a walled-in factory and its watery wastes accumulate in a locality which is away from the town. But during the rains, the effluent overflows its bounds and encroaches upon the towns.
Another important factor that affects us is the thoughtless deed of the municipality. By a sudden decision, it rebuilt some of its important roads by raising their heights. Naturally, during the rains the adjacent houses found water spilling into their apartments. The remedy becomes worse than the disease.
Recently, however, the government has become more alert. It is a consequence of the Supreme Court’s ruling that the vehicle must maintain a norm so that their vehicles do not emit foul smoke. Some philanthropic (= desiring the people’s well-being) organisations have, recently, joined hands with civic bodies. They have lent pressure on the municipality that the road water must be carried out through pukka (permanent) drains.
The crux of the problem is that, habitually, we are not prone to clean living. We deposit our waste outside our doorsteps without bothering to travel upto a garbage dump. We believe that only keeping our own houses clean keeps life going. The factories, unless they are manned by enlightened industrialists, are more interested in their production and profit. The health of its staff generally falls outside their purview (= range of vision).
My town, however, is only a minor specimen of this kind of negligence and pollution. These factors like indifference to others’ inconvenience, self-centredness and a lack of unity among the sufferers assume a larger proportion in the big cities.
Slowly, however, men are growing wiser with time. Thanks to television and the literacy movement, men are becoming of the fell diseases and health hazards. It is observed that insecticide sprays and bleaching powders are promptly used when there are crowds of visitors during exhibitions, circuses or other meets.
We need more aggressive projects to teach the people elementary facts about ecological balance. They have to be taught that ecological disorders result in a kind of slow decay. Unclean tanks polluted by detergent washing soaps rot and kill the fish. There are species of frogs or other creatures of the marshes that thrive on products that are fatal for men. Thus there is a close relationship between creatures – they are complementary to one another’s existence.
Naturally, our upcoming generation of youth has to be trained in these secrets of life; they have to be more scientific; the girls have to be trained in these as they are future mothers.
The future is not bleak. Today very few nations or people are grovelling in the dark. Thanks to science and a feeling of cooperation among/in the comity of nations (= a feeling of brotherliness), the fruits of research travel fast. Our younger generation is looking up. We can look forward to a better future, unless another war, fermented by blind power and thoughtless actions, engulfs (= totally covers) us.
