The Env. Corner. Examples of waste that you saw today. And that you prevented

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Re: The Env. Corner. Examples of waste that you saw today. And that you prevented

@muqawwee123

Southie uncle. deewaron se baten karna acha lagta hai

But this is 100 times interesting thread than that nugget thread. I enjoyed your posts and the way you observed things around you. Keep on sharing. I’ll definitely contribute from my side, when I find something new to add. For the time, I remember just same instances as posted by you.

Does extra charging of laptop battery count? :sid:

@muqawwee123

Don’t get me start on Karachi’s traffic. We have to keep engines on in rush hours and its not just 3 minutes that engine runs for nothing. Its 30-60 minute average daily and that too just for roughly 40 km drive a day.

In our case, its something we don’t have any control.

@muqawwee123

This is a daily routine, be it shaving or tooth brushing. Many people just waste water. One of my friend use to open bathroom tap, while being in bathroom. First we thought that its just filling lota, but afterwards he told that he feel it good with noise of running water to minimize other sides (you know). We asked him ‘khuda ke liye apne mobile ki ring tone chala liya karo’.

@muqawwee123

When it comes to police, I think they produce / contribute to noise pollution to great extent. They are always in hurry with their horns on, but I wonder they never reach wardaat wali jaga on time

wardaat ki Hindi? Dur-Ghatna I think

You know you could have quiet easily multiquoted all these posts by the OP and replied to each and everyone of them through 1 post. Talk about wasting resources. As a seasoned CM I’m pretty sure it’s your responsibility to create an example, and not to do the stupid things a regular member of the forum does.

@Southie

Every bit helps. Don’t look to me for examples. You want to provide examples go for it.

No idea what you mean by individually we cant make an impact. Of course we can! Just need to get rid of defeatist attitude.

Those in the megachurch are individuals!

While your sentiments are noble, in this day and age, an individual can’t really do much, besides maybe saving a bucket of water a day. When entire countries are collectively ruining the environment, what can an individual do? Let’s take China for example. The AQI index of that country, in any part, is so ridiculous that it’s detrimental to people’s healths. But what can 1 person do, when the buildings are built without centralized heating which uses renewable resources, and people are forced to heat their homes with coal burners. Are they supposed to sit there with their children in freezing temperatures, in the name of saving resources? No one is actively asking that country to switch to renewable resources, and instead are encouraging them to burn fossil fuels by sending all sorts of manufacturing in that country because it’s cheap. And to be fair, it’s not fair to ask that of China when the Western world has had it’s share of burning of fossil fuels. And on that same note, countries are refusing to sign the recommendations given out by the Kyoto Protocol, because it hurts their bottom line in the near future, not realizing that long term it’s detrimental to them. And what about all these wars that are being waged around the world. I’m pretty sure you can’t recycle all the waste that that produces into something more beneficial for 1 individual, or a whole town, or a city, or the country. So it’s not a defeatist attitude that someone is adopting, it’s a more realistic one.

Saying that, I don’t encourage people to sit there with the tap on filling the lota up to the brim and wasting water, nor do I encourage people to throw their old batteries in the garbage when they can be disposed/recycled off properly. But we must be realistic that 1 person’s efforts will only help the microenvironment, not the macroenvironment.