Hey everyone do you remember "photosynthesis" which we have read in 3rd class, that trees absorb carbon dioxide from atmoshphere and release out oxygen, it must be really important right thats why we have been reading this in our curriculum since our childhood but like everything important we dont give a f**k about it. In the name of urbanization and development trees are being cut everywhere.
According to delhi based environment group, Environment impact assessment resource and response centre between 2014 to 2017. Government of india has every year on an average sacrificed 122 sq km of forests in the name of development projects. If 60 football grounds were razed to the ground every day till 3 years. That many forests have been cut during this period. Just a few years ago an order has been passed to cut 3500 trees for making a metro shed Mumbai Aarey colony. A shed for parking the metro... in mumbai's last remaining green cover. I will give you a second to laugh at that. Along with that Aarey colony is getting a metro station as well. Metro train is really good for any city but seriously who makes a metro station in the middle of a jungle? Moreover there are only 10000 people living in Aarey colony. There are 7 other options of land available to the government where this parking shed and station can be made without cutting trees but still why has Aarey forest has been chosen? Something is definitely fishy here. There is another smart idea doing rounds in the millennium city Gurugram.
Aravali biodiversity park is the only green cover in the middle of this concrete jungle. It is such a beautiful place. I can tell you. There are so many different species of birds and animal here so many migratory birds also pay a visit here in the middle of that NHAI has planned to build a grand six lane expressway . In the last 10 years Gurgaon's ground water table has fallen by 82 % and every year the situation is going from bad to worse. Aaravali Biodiversity park. A jungle that is spread across an area of 380 acres Recharges this ground water but haryana government does not consider it a forest. So to solve the traffic problem in the city the government & the NHAI has come up with a brilliant plan of building a 2 km road from the middle of this jungle. According to authorities making more roads can solve the problem of traffic congestion and pollution even if it means destroying the urban forest but experts believe that creating more roads will do something completely opposite.
long story short we are f**king up our forests and if most of us remember that photosynthesis diagram then i guess we are f**king up our future as well.
