Supply-side policies to control industrial pollution

Recently a few private banks jointly organized a training session in Karachi for their sales s on how to market green financing products. It is a good initiative and can work if effectively managed through a robust marketing strategy. To stimulate the demand for green financing products the main challenge is to convince businesses their higher profit without covering the social cost i.e. environmental pollution - can never be ethically their due share. If it is they are convinced, one can hope to create a market for this newly introduced financing product.

Industrial pollution – the main sources of environmental pollution by businesses – pollutes the water with its effluent and contaminates the air with its emissions. Like every country, Pakistan does have legal tools to control it but despite their enforcement, it can’t be controlled beyond a negligible level. Why? Its answer is lengthy and every saner person does know it. Enumerating the reasons here is not the subject matter of this article. Here the main purpose is to discuss how to influence businesses to control the menace of pollution at its source.

There are three sides where industrial pollution can be controlled. The first one is the regulatory side by enforcing the environmental laws in their true spirit. For a developing country like Pakistan hoping to fully exploit this legal tool can be anything but a viable approach. The built-

Has Karachi really become the most polluted city?

How accurate is it that various online applications for air quality analysis have repeatedly declared Karachi's ambient air the most polluted in the world over the past several days?  Strangely enough, there is currently no centralized system in the world that can automatically analyze the atmosphere of all the world's cities. Nor is there an agency whose representatives are simultaneously monitoring the air quality of all major cities around the world.  

Free Air Index Apps

Take a look at the free applications that every conscious person downloads on

their smartphone and sees a dangerous rating of their city as a polluted city. The outcome is their higher level of anxiety, blood pressure and sugar.  

Partiality of Data

The overall air quality data on the Internet is also unreliable because in most of them there is only one parameter of air quality analysis as compare to its total five to six main parameters.  These are PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and ozone gas, the amount of which is called air pollution when it exceeds a certain limit.  

How to prevent pollution with unity?

You wonder how to prevent pollution with unity? Yes, you can if you stand united against polluters. You must stop every act of polluting for the health and safety of our kids. You must not be afraid of following the environmentalism. It means to raise your voice against polluters.

Polluter may be a person, an institution, a company, a community, a country, or a process of any type that pollutes the environment. It means whoever is polluting our natural environment is a polluter. This may be intentional or unintentional.

An act of polluting may be small or huge. Those who pollute our environment shamelessly are actually

bloody polluters. They are putting our world at stake. Our planet won’t be safe if the pace of environmental degradation does not subside. So we must learn how to prevent pollution with unity.

Poor girl, suffocating hug and bloody indoor pollution

Her name is Saakshi, age 12. She lives in a remote village of Tamil Nadu, India with her parents and a younger brother. Her mother and father love her so much and care for her a lot. She belongs to a social class where nothing is in abundance except love and care.

The poor souls don’t have that much sense to understand simply love and care can’t keep their kids happy. They have faces to smile but don’t have any reason to smile.

They have legs to dance but don’t have any reason to dance. Their only activity in life is to manage two-time meal and continue living in a house coming in same poor condition from their forefathers.

What’s wrong with Saakshi?

Now let’s talk about Saakshi. She is fond of playing outside the home. This is the only way she has to stay away from the suffocation of her home. She has to eat whatever is given to her and drink water without worrying about its quality.

A few months ago a strange thing happened in their home. Now her father and mother have to love her with care. Now even they can’t express their love to her so warmly; which means now they can’t give anything in abundance to their beloved daughter.

The warm expression of love is prohibited

The reason is; once her mother hugged her in the affection she protested on her mother’s tight hug and asked her not to do this again because she can’t breathe well. This was so worrisome for both mother and father.

They took her to a nearby dispensary where they were shocked to know their beloved daughter is suffering from acute asthma because of inhaling a huge amount of smoke persistently for the last two years. Pediatric asthma rate increased almost 73 percent in an advanced nation like the USA while in the poor region you can well imagine how higher it can be.

Heinous collusion of a troika to protect the polluters in poor countries

Rulers of poor countries are brutally smart.

Also, they are not naive about the harsh realities of this world.

They very well know how to protect their environment but they don’t want to do this.

They can’t afford to swallow the fury of giant industrialists, big corporations, rogue mafias of pollution and above all the vested interests that just want to earn more and more by spending peanuts.

Big polluters are not huge in number but they are so powerful that no government in any poor country can even talk against them.

They can topple the government with their powerful kicks and kickbacks.

They just want the cosmetic type of environmental activities –like fairy tales - which should keep going in poor countries to dupe all; you, me and the rest of the enlightened lot of this world.

Informal but most deadly coalition

They all are not in one forum, in a club or in a league to jointly pollute the environment of poor countries. They are dispersed in all poor countries of Asia, Africa and other poor regions of the world. Their vested interests are the same that’s why there is nothing uncommon in them. They adopt the same tactics to crush every attempt that means to protect the environment.

They know that if a green effort is made, it will be a direct hit on their financial, political and social interests. They have to install a treatment plant in their factory and pay the extra cost.

Top 10 financial effects of pollution that make you poor

Pollution cost to the whole world is in trillions. The exact cost is not known. Because of no data management. So we refer guestimates only.

We can imagine how much it can be on the basis of simply cost of pollution to India which is nearly $80 billion per year. For Pakistan, it is $60 per year. But its standstill because of no updating to it.

Pollution is hitting everywhere in every sector of the economy. So each sector is paying its price. But each sector is also causing it in one way or the other.

The major financial effects of pollution of various types are ten that are as below.

How to stay safe from harms of pollution for a longer life?

All types of pollution are equally harmful. Most of them cause several serious and lethal diseases. Millions of people die all over the world because of one form of pollution or the other. Their count is rising. Obviously, it has to because pollution level is also on upward track owing to the absence of its extensive control. 

The major part of the pollution could be controlled at the regulatory level with the enforcement of green laws and the promotion of an eco-friendly way of living. But at the government level efforts are not bringing desired results because of weaker enforcement mechanisms of green laws or meddling of polluters at the decision-making level. This dismal state of affairs is going on in almost all countries of the world.

Higher the pollution, shorter the life

Did you ever notice that now people die quite earlier than their forefathers? Now people hardly survive above the age of 60. In older times surviving till the age of 80 was quite common. By and by the limit of average

How to control light pollution and save money?

Light pollution means excessive light in your surrounding environment. It may be because of our frenzy of over illuminating your environment or advertisers’ enthusiasm to make their products’ signboards as much glaring as possible. In any of the ways excessive light is not only harmful for our eyesight but also it equally creates global warming and also a source of energy wastage. Usually we don’t take light pollution seriously and take it as source of joy when we see lot of lights are being illuminated in a party and our eyes are getting affected by their glaring effects. Who has ever felt the harmful effects of flood lights in soccer ground that totally disturb the ideal balance of lights in the environment and cause global warming as well?

I can’t marry you because you are from a polluted area. A True Story

Babu, a resident of village Devdi of Vatva GIDC area of Ahmedabad first time saw her in a marriage party. She was a pretty and confident girl. She noted his first look and replied him with a covert smile. She was not allowed to respond more than this while being a member of a conservative society of countryside of India. But her message was quite clear. Village girls simply give their consent with their slight smile and leave the rest to boy folks. After that boy has to send marriage proposal to her parents. If the boy is not so poor and almost equal to the status of the girl's family, parents of girl accept the proposal. If a boy belongs to a lower cast, earns less or not up to the status of girl’s family then girl’s parents politely refuse to accept the proposal. Most of the marriages are planned and done with the consent of

Top 5 solutions for garbage pollution

Garbage pollution is the only pollution problem that disturbs us 24/7 if it is not properly managed on long-term basis. Relying on garbage collection service to mitigate this problem is right approach because we pay through our taxes to civic agencies for this facility. But during the process of solid waste generation at our home we can do several things to keep it within limits and remain happy mentally and physical until the garbage collection service provider comes and takes it away.

Here are the top 5 solutions for garbage pollution we can apply in our everyday life at home and office both.

Top 100 pollution control tips for you

Nowadays everybody shifts the blame of polluting on others. Everyone claims that it is not his responsibility. Some people just curse the polluters while some other point finger at government. Very few accept their responsibility for any type of green cause. That is why I assembled here 100 pollution control tips which we can follow at our own level without any help of any institution or government. We just need to follow them gradually without taking any stress. We can also promote them as much as possible to let others know about it.

Environmental Pollution Control tips

1. Review your every act to see if it is polluting

2. Promptly rectify your every act of polluting directly or indirectly

3. Always treat cigarette your number one enemy

200 articles on pollution and related topics in 15 months

This is my 200^th article on pollution and other green matters in previous one year and three months. On 1^st May 2012 I wrote first article and after that never thought why I am doing this and what is my basic objective? I just wrote whatever was in my mind about pollution and other environmental issues. I made this blog an excellent source of my catharsis. Whatever was and is going around me locally and globally about environmental pollution is almost knee-jerking for me. So much so, sometimes in frenzy of protecting environment I went wild against polluters but as a weaker being I could not have sustained their pressure. So finally I decided to start this blog on pollution and for the last fifteen months I have been regularly posting on it sometimes very frequently and sometimes a little less frequently but I never missed it even for one week.

Here are a few interesting articles on pollution I wrote for you

Top 45 health effects of pollution

A newly conducted research revealed that more than 20 million deaths around the world each year occurred due to pollution and majority of them pertains to East and South Asia where most of the countries are backward. Another previous study disclosed that 40 per cent of the total deaths in the world each year are because of the one or the other form of pollution. It sounds horrendous to hear that many deaths because of environmental degradation but very few of us seriously think upon it.

Therefore, I have compile here top 45 health effects of pollution which are actually 45 diseases as the outcome of the various types of pollution.

Top 5 damned reasons to raise voice against every act of polluting

Smaller actions most of the times lead to greater results. Just consistency and positivity are required to get the wrongdoings stopped in any field. In quite a recent case study from Pakistan, its government had no choice but to install an effluent treatment plant in oneof its industrial areas by its own money after industries of the area refused to obey the green laws. In fear of their exit to somewhere else government instead of taking legal action against them offered a way-out and put up treatment plant for the industries. Now it is convincing them to run and manage the plant by self help basis. But the question is why government was forced to take such a step where it had to spend its own money thought it was not bound to do so. It is because a resident of the nearby residential area of the said industrial region complained of uncontrolled industrial pollution to the higher court. As a result government had to solve the problem after court verdict that is not much easy for anyone to shelve or ignore.

Top 20 psychological effects of pollution that appear gradually

The common affects of pollution are many like environmental degradation, extinction of species, shrinkage of biodiversity, depletion of resources, weakening of ecosystem, rising global warming, steep climate change, decline in agriculture production, scarcity of water and several fatal diseases to human beings and animal. These are impacts that are often referred by environmentalists and you can read them anywhere on internet.

But there are several shocking effects of pollution that are actually its end results and we don’t trace its actual cause and simply try to remove their apparent causes. A few decades ago the custom of saying sorry or pardon to someone if you don’t properly listen to him was very rare. But now every one of us while speaking to someone very casually say pardon or sorry to get him repeat the sentence because we cannot properly listen in first utterance. So this is the ultimate effect of noise pollution that is gradually affecting our hearing ability.

So here are the top 20 psychological effects of pollution of all types that appear gradually.

Top 20 real causes of pollution which no one shared with you before

Usually several factors are blamed as main causes of pollution. They are; smoke emissions from factories and vehicles, effluent from manufacturing units and waste from houses, offices and industries. But these are the apparent causes which directly affect our environment. Actually there are several real causes of pollution which force industries to produce more and don’t take care of environment, vehicles to run without caring environment and people to just consume and use the things without considering rising pollution load on land.

Here are the 20 real causes of pollution which on one refers and mistakenly calls them bookish reasons that have no direct relationship with rising level of pollution all across the globe.

Garbage burning, a huge cause of air pollution in backward countries

Garbage burning is the most lethal cause of air pollution because its smoke remains within our breathing zone for quite a long time. Garbage is burnt in the countries where solid waste collection is so poor. Obviously this happens mostly in poor countries where no any sound system prevails for any type of solid waste management. Therefore, people of such countries have to suffer because they don’t have any choice but to burn heaps of garbage to get rid of it.

According to environmentalists garbage burning is the cause of air pollution that directly affect the breathing zone of the communities living around it. Scenes of garbage burning are so common where communities survive in a suffocating environment because of huge amount of smoke coming out from it. They suffer from eye irritation, giddying, breathing problems, throat allergy and even asthma.

It is never too late; so let’s solve the pollution problems

In the history of human beings no need was felt to worry about pollution problems in the initial centuries when the only source of pollution was burning of wood for cooking purpose or heating the cold weather. Lifestyle was so simple and the entire life used to revolve around basic necessities of food, shelter and clothes. Water was pure and in abundance, air was clean and land was pure. It was not because of the environmental friendliness of the people of those times. It was because population was lesser and development has yet to come to create greed in people.

When humans first thought about pollution problems

It was 5^th century when population started rising. Indoor pollution took its shape and started affecting the human health. Similarly wheel was invented and people realized what was going to

Lack of will is the main reason of huge pollution in China

In a recent development an official of the Chinese environmental protection department disclosed that during first quarter of 2013 nearly 16 cases of sheer environmental violation and degradation were tackled by the government. This is first time that such information unofficially made to public. In these cases includes a famous case of river pollution when local pollution control official of Beijing openly declared that Cangxian County, Hebei province is polluted so much so that many pollutants are 70 times higher than its national standards. This brought on widespread hue and cry and ultimately that official was removed from his post.

Little pollution control steps

In another development the Chinese environmental protection department fined nearly 68 factories on polluting water. That shows though the government level action is being taken to control

4 easy tips to play your role to stop an act of polluting

Environmental violations cannot be stopped unless we raise voice against them. It is not so easy to standagainst any act of polluting in your area. Most of the time such polluters are most powerful or they have backing of a few powerful people or they themselves are rogue by nature. That is why they openly hit the nature just to serve their own interest. To stop crime against nature you need to act as an environmental activist of your area. Don’t worry you need not get any special skill for this purpose. Nor you have to spend much time. You just have to record you protest against polluters and their heinous act of polluting.

Write a letter in newspaper

This is the most simply way to try to stop environmental violation in your area. If you see any act of polluting around you just write a letter to editor of the newspaper of your area. If there is no newspaper publishes