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.

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