Smog Ki Khatarnaak Soorat E Haal. Musalsal Barhti Smog Par Kis Terhan Qaboo Paya Ja Sakta Hai??
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00:00In Lahore, in the whole of Punjab, in general, especially in Lahore,
00:03then in Multan, and now in other cities as well,
00:05there is a strange and poor situation with regard to smog.
00:08It is a worrying situation.
00:09I have spent the last 48-72 hours in Lahore,
00:14so I am an eyewitness to some things.
00:15One thing that has worried me a lot, apart from all these things,
00:18I personally, this is one story, how many stories will there be?
00:23I know one individual who came from a foreign country, Pakistan,
00:25who has a lot of investments in Lahore,
00:27and he had come to Lahore to further expand those investments.
00:31I met him in the last few days.
00:33And after seeing this whole situation,
00:35he was thinking that he should wrap up all these investments and go back to his country.
00:38Because he said, why should I invest billions of rupees in such a country,
00:42where literally, my children and I are alive in this quality.
00:45So this means that this smog has a lot to do with health.
00:49It is directly related to foreign investment.
00:52And I don't know with what other things.
00:54Why is this there?
00:55What is the solution to this?
00:56Let's try to understand in simple words.
00:57Khwaja Asif Sahib has tweeted today.
00:59He tried to prove that the biggest contributor to this is transport.
01:04Cars, smoke, and all this.
01:06Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Sahib has tweeted,
01:08in which he has told the air quality index of every city.
01:11Karachi's is the best, very good.
01:13So Bilawal Sahib said, Dear Pakistan, move to Karachi.
01:15Come, you come to Karachi.
01:17On this, our friend Mubashir Zaidi Sahib, who is a journalist,
01:19he has tweeted a mischievous tweet,
01:20that if you come to Karachi, your phone will be snatched.
01:22Then they won't see you.
01:23They won't see.
01:24How is the air quality index?
01:25They won't know how much.
01:26Look at this as well.
01:27Take care of this.
01:29Dr. Rana Jawad Asghar Sahib,
01:30who is the CEO of Global Health Strategies and Implementers.
01:33And he is very relevant in this regard.
01:35Sir, quickly, I want to understand 2-3 things from you.
01:37First, tell me, is it right to say that
01:40the contributors mentioned in regards to smoke,
01:44that the soil of under-constructed buildings,
01:48the pollution of cars, smoke,
01:50or other such things,
01:53the burning of crops,
01:55these are all factors.
01:56But why is there smoke in a single city?
02:00It cannot be said until there is a real test.
02:04Or, we have enough reasons to believe and to prove
02:08that in Lahore, what is the biggest element of smoke?
02:14Thank you very much, Mr. Badami, for inviting me to the program.
02:18Look, this issue of smoke is not a single city issue.
02:24And it is in India as well.
02:26So, this is something that is spread throughout the region.
02:30So, to say that a city can have a completely separate
02:35contributing factor to smoke
02:37compared to another city is a very difficult thing.
02:40Okay.
02:41The current smoke…
02:42Yes, yes.
02:43So, the current smoke that is in both countries,
02:48a lot of people have done research on this.
02:51And the data that has been published so far,
02:55we know that the major contribution is
03:00that of the exhaust of vehicles.
03:02The smoke of vehicles?
03:04Yes, the smoke of vehicles.
03:05So, if that is the case,
03:07then again, this is a layman question.
03:10If 100 people live in Lahore,
03:11then 150 people live in Karachi.
03:13So, if there are 50 cars in Lahore,
03:14then there will be 75 cars in Karachi.
03:16So, there will be a lot of smoke.
03:17It's not like there are environmentally friendly cars in Karachi and not in Lahore.
03:20So, why is Karachi's air quality index so good
03:22and Lahore's so bad?
03:25Look, it is very important for this
03:28that the weather of that city,
03:33the direction of the winds,
03:35and whether there is fog there or not.
03:38So, Lahore or this city of Punjab, including Multan, etc.,
03:4240 years ago, there was heavy fog here for three months.
03:47And basically, there is no fog.
03:50The fog was just a drop of water
03:54that gets suspended in the air,
03:56that is, it comes in front of you,
03:58it comes in front of you from a kind of cloud.
04:01Now, when the poisonous smoke of the cars mixed in it,
04:05we called it fog.
04:07So, to mix that poisonous smoke,
04:09there was a need for fog.
04:11Now, that smoke was created.
04:12Because of this, the same cities are facing a lot of smoke problems
04:16that used to have fog in them before
04:18and which people used to enjoy a lot.
04:20So, sir, what does this mean?
04:22The solution to this is not short term,
04:25it is long term.
04:25For example, the number of cars getting registered,
04:29the number of new cars getting registered per day,
04:31the government will have to reduce it.
04:33Or in different countries of the world,
04:35sir, those environmentally friendly cars,
04:37or until your car does not meet this standard,
04:40you will not let that car come on the road.
04:41In our country, these things will be taken as a joke,
04:43if I say, what kind of nonsense is this?
04:45So, all this will have to be done
04:46if you want to get rid of it in the long term.
04:50Yes, if you remember,
04:52the AQI index was very much improved
04:56when the pandemic came in 2020.
04:58Yes, it is exactly like that.
04:59Lockdowns were imposed.
05:00And those mountains that we had never seen before,
05:03or hadn't seen for a long time,
05:05started to be seen in those cities
05:07because the air became cleaner.
05:09So, there are very drastic changes immediately.
05:12So, of course, your country's economy cannot tolerate it.
05:15It needs a long-term impact.
05:17And we will have to go to clean energy sources in that.
05:21In cars, in houses, and in commercials too.
05:24Just like solar is coming, electric cars are coming,
05:27so number one, we will have to go to that.
05:29Other countries have also dealt with this.
05:32In Beijing, there was a lot of pollution,
05:34this kind of smoke type or pollution.
05:37They imposed restrictions on cars.
05:39In this way, increasing subsidized public transport
05:44will reduce the need for people to take their motorcycles and cars.
05:49So, in all the big cities,
05:52we will have to focus on such public transport
05:55that runs on clean energy itself,
05:58but replaces it.
06:00If a bus is going,
06:01it is basically replacing 20-30 motorcycles.
06:05You will have to reduce their exhaust and shift towards such things.
06:09Only then will your city...
06:11And actually, secondly, these are long-term health effects.
06:15It is not a matter of cough for a month or two.
06:17And sir, tell us in the end, is it okay to say this?
06:19I mean, can it be used to this extent for health?
06:22So that people have an idea, you tell me.
06:24Is it okay to say this or is it an overstatement?
06:26Sir, it is also true that if it continues to affect you,
06:30then the average life of that area can be reduced.
06:34If a person lives, for example, 60 years in that area,
06:37then it can be said that he has lived 58, 57, 55 years.
06:40Is it okay to say this?
06:42Yes, according to the research I have just read,
06:45the population of India and Pakistan
06:48has already reduced the average life span by 4 years.
06:54This has already happened.
06:55Now look ahead.
06:56But with this, let me also tell you that we only think that
07:00you have also been there for two days,
07:02I have also been there for two days in Lahore.
07:05So everyone has a sore throat, cough has started.
07:07It is difficult to breathe.
07:08There are a lot of issues.
07:09The long-term impact of this is 50% increase in deaths
07:15of people who have any breathing problems.
07:18But 30% increase in heart diseases.
07:2230% increase in heart disease deaths.
07:2630% increase in stroke.
07:29Children are born before their due date,
07:33approximately 14 to 20%.
07:35And when they are born, they are more prone to diseases.
07:41They also have an increase in the number of deaths.
07:47Multiple types of cancer.
07:48There are so many far-reaching effects.
07:49And the economic angle is different,
07:51which I also mentioned at the beginning of this segment.
07:53Sir, thank you very much.