Youth urged to save environment from pollution

Karachi
The world environment day is an opportunity to realise not only the responsibility of caring for earth but also to become agents of change.
Dean Faculty of Sciences, University of Karachi, Professor Dr Viqar Hussain said this while delivering a speech at a seminar on ‘Environmental Data Analysis’ at the KU’s Institute of Environmental Studies on Friday.
The environmental scientists spend considerable amount of their time to develop solutions to the environmental and natural resource issues but it was the foremost duty of the youth to save environment from pollution, he asserted.
Referring to statistics, the professor said, more than five million people die annually due to the unavailability of safe drinking water, adding oil and polluted wastage released by the ships which poisons the oceans cause a huge damage to the environment and marine life.
“Thousands of species of fish are now getting obsolete and forests are being used as a source of fuel which is also increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere besides damaging the ozone layer.”
Dr Viqar told the audience that urban centers were endangered by the noise pollution caused by the excessive traffic, which also contribute a lot in the environmental hazards. “It is a national duty to provide awareness of these facts so that these grave problems could be eradicated at the earliest.”
Meanwhile, Director, KU Institute of Environmental Studies, Professor Dr Tariq Masood Ali Khan in his keynote address, said the world was facing problems of high population growth, low agricultural developments, poverty and high environmental degradation, which, if continued, South Asia’s food, agriculture, environment and quality of life will be seriously threatened in the years to come.
He added that the goal of the seminar was to provide a deeper understanding of the theory underlying the statistical analysis of the environmental data, both in the space, time and spectral domain.
At the end of the seminar, KU Registrar Professor Dr Moazzam Ali Khan distributed the shields and certificates among the guests and the participants.