Light rains came last night. What a relief. But not enough. We need more water to wash away the pollution that is taking a toll on the people's health. Everywhere I go, I see people blowing their noise, coughing like a horse, teary-eyed and having a resigned look as to how the cities are being administered -- full of traffic, garbage trucks moving about in the daytime without covers, diesel-fed jeepneys and other smoke belching vehicles running hither and dither, disregarding all kinds of ordinances and laws against environmental pollution. What kind of life we have -- a series of doldrum days!
What should be done -- catch all those smoke belchers, set a time for their short entry to the cities unless they are able to clean up their exhaust pipes, give a big chunk of funds for lending to transportation owners to shift to using e-jeeps, teach children and overgrown children to segregate their waste and not to just thrown away anything in the streets?
So many ways that I think the Dept of Environment and Natural Resources has already done, is doing and implementing. But my solution right now is simple, apart from my endorsing the above actions:
PLACE HUGE ELECTRIC FANS ON THE ROAD TO BLOW AWAY THE SOOT THAT STAYS ON THE GROUND AS THOSE POLLUTING VEHICLES PASS BY. ALSO PLACE EXHAUST FANS ABOVE MAJOR ROADS, INTERSECTIONS AND HIGHWAYS SO THAT THE AIR WOULD BE MADE CLEANER.
PLACE MORE WATER FOUNTAINS THAT WILL KEEP THE WEATHER LESS HOT AND TOLERABLE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TO WORK IN ORDER TO EAT.
GOD PLEASE MAKE THE ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS MORE SENSITIVE TO THE PEOPLE'S PLIGHT AND HELP THEM OPEN THEIR EYES TO THE NEED TO SERVE EVERY MINUTE AND SECOND OF THEIR LIVES.
AMEN.
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