Thinking green
June 5, 2021
Pakistan produces only one percent of the world's carbon emissions, but is a major sufferer of the impact created by the far larger volumes of carbon gases released into the environment by other, larger countries around the world. China and the US are both among these countries, as are other industrial powers in the Western world. Prime Minister Imran Khan too has emphasised this point time and again. As the world observes World Environment Day today, we need to take a serious look at climate change, and how it is affecting our country -- with glacial melt on the increase due to the changing climate and a direct impact of the altering weather patterns on crop production and the seasons in which they are produced. All this needs a serious discussion by agriculturalists given that we have suffered damage to many of our crops, because of the new pattern of rains, drought, and other factors, which all have an influence on our lives, and most importantly, our capacity to produce food.