Environment polluters are enemies of country and people: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday said those who are making damages to environment for personal interests are enemies of the country and the people.

“United resistance should be built against environment polluters,” he told a seminar titled “Let us make the ecology safe to protect the earth” arranged by AL sub-committee on forest and environment at CIRDAP auditorium here.

Dr Hasan said: “We are making damages to environment. Even after that the environment stays kind to us. We are enriched with ecological diversity,” BSS reports.

“Those are making damages to environment for personal interests and those industrialists don’t keep the matter of environmental pollution in mind rather make damages and kill rivers, they are enemies of environment,” he said.

The average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1o Celsius after the industrial revolution and that is why sea level rose and different ecological imbalance including salinity occurred, he mentioned.

The minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (a global partnership of countries that are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change), always played active role in the world to this end.

He said Bangladesh played a pioneering role in formulating strategy and actions plans in facing the impacts of climate change. Many countries including the United States have learnt from Bangladesh’s action plans, he said.

For these reasons, Bangabandhu’s daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won Champions of the Earth Award, he mentioned.