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| Azad says war for environment can be won by joint, concerted efforts | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 5
Asking people to learn from the wisdom of the past generations who lived in total peace with environment, the Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad termed environmental degradation and climate change as global concern and called for massive awareness to deal with the imminent environment situation presented by scientists as a worst case scenario.
"Environmental degradation, climate change and global warming are no longer subjects confined to academic and scientific deliberations", Azad said while inaugurating the seminar on 'Climate Change: Causes, Consequences & Control' as part of the weeklong World Environment Day activities launched by University of Kashmir here today.
Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir, Prof. Riyaz Punjabi, his Jammu University counterpart, Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Director, Centre for Research & Development, Prof. A. R. Yusuf, Professor, Environmental Studies, Dr. A. K. Pandita, former Vice Chancellors of University of Kashmir, Prof. M. Y. Qadri and Prof. Abdul Wahid and faculty and students were present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister said that the war for environment could be won by joint and concerted efforts of people and the countries across the world. He said efforts at international level were required to prevent environment degradation. He said like the mankind inherited planet earth it had to share the consequences of degradation of its environment.
Advocating environment friendly development, the Chief Minister said that the two had to go hand in hand rather than knock each other out. A balance, he said, had to be struck between development and environment so that the growing needs of man were met without vandalizing environment.
Describing the venue of the seminar, as it happened to be on the banks of the Dal Lake, as appropriate, he said the effect of human indulgence combined with natural phenomenon, as seen in case of the lake, was leading to an imminent environmental disaster. He called it criminal on the part of the people responsible for its slow death. He referred to the wanton felling of forests in the Valley as another testimony to the role of the vested interests in vandalizing local climate and wondered where those gushing streams and brooks, once hallmark of the rural landscape, had gone. |
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