Intolerance is the trending word, What about pollution?

Intolerance is the trending word these days. Everyone is talking about intolerance. It is in the electronic and print media and in everyone’s mind. Writers, Filmmakers, Scientists are returning their awards. Marches are being held by politicians and actors. Intolerance is in the air. This whole intolerance wave started when people started killing people because they eat beef or if they have certain thoughts. Yes I’m talking about the late Mr. MM Kalburgi and Mohammad Akhlaq. All that is fine and it is good that people are coming out and protesting. But I think that people are not protesting much on Pollution.This is a topic that I think is not getting much attention. All that I see in the news is intolerance about beef and writers returning there awards and people commenting that returning awards is not the right way to protest against something.

Well my question is why people are not protesting against pollution. Sure there are articles in the newspapers and discussions but I think it is not enough. This is a very serious matter. Delhi is the most polluted city in the world. The air is toxic. Lakhs of people use public transport and despite the super awesome connectivity of the Delhi Metro people are still travelling in their personal vehicles.

There is a very minute difference in traffic I guess. Some steps are being taken by the government but their speed is very slow. This spike in pollution is because people keep buying cars especially diesel cars. According to the transport department data there is huge increase in diesel cars this year. I think this is also because there is not much of a difference in CNG price and CNG friendly engines are not being made either.

Sometime earlier I read in a newspaper that there will be a 05 hour window on diwali in which people can burst crackers but a 05 hour window is also very huge but the Supreme Court rejected it on the grounds that it cannot put a window because it will hurt religious sentiments. Instead of giving a window the government should put a ban on Crackers but that is not happening I don’t know why. It should’ve been done a long ago. The government should take some harsh steps by limiting the number of cars a family can own and should promote CNG and hybrid vehicles.

People are not thinking of their own good. These are alarming times. More car free days should be organized and the government should strengthen the public transportation system. We all have to work together to fight pollution. It is killing us slowly. The air is not clean and we all can see it clearly. People are aware and yet they are not doing anything that’s the sad part.
WAKE UP!

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Written by,

Ankur Goyal

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