IS GLOBAL WARMING A MENACE TO OUR LIFE;

IF YES THEN HOW AND HOW CAN WE MINIMIZE IT.?

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By: Afia Nisar

In the name of all the most beneficent and the most merciful. Distinguished chief guest, worthy judges honorable principal respected teachers and my dear fellows ASA.today the topic which I am going to throw light on is a very strong and effectual issue that is global warming. As we all are well aware of the term global warming it is increase in the average temp of the earth’s atmosphere...The co2 is being emitted and NOT being absorbed by the green plants for photosynthesis THEN the amount of co2 in air is increasing forming a layer adjacent the earths surface traps unwanted rays inside it. It causes the air temp to rise. Now the question arising is “IS GLOBAL WARMING REALLY A MENACE TO OUR LIVES” global warming is really a threat to us it is a critical issue and it should be solved as soon as possible because the longer it goes on the more we will feel insecure living on our very own mother land. Don’t you want your children and their children and their children to live a better life than you or a life at least like you? of course you do they’ll suffer more if things will go on like this so together we have to hold our hands for the better future of our next generation now a question may come into your mind that what are the causes of global warming what makes Global warming the causes include pollution , smoke coming out of the vehicles, industries and debris use of AC in homes ,operating refrigerators and use of aerosols sprays emit cfc later as the cfc goes up into the air it helps the ozone layer to deplete which lets the UV ray s inside earth and spread diseases like skin and eye cancer. Much use of sulphur dioxide I power stations and burning of fossil fuels cause acid rain so2 mixes with water vapors to make acid rain it can case damage to many plants ripen fruits on trees starts rot it can also cause iron to rust and many buildings will be destroyed. all the causes are due to our idleness .they r irreversible so we should try to stop them before it gets too late all the cause leave a major effects on the worlds environment foe instance.

Rising of sea of sea level are an easily measurable effect of global warming as he ice melts it joins the huge pool of oceans. Sea levels are currently on apace to rise at about 1 inch every 10 years .this might seem a small change but this is the first step which can make our future disastrous. Beach erosion is a major effect of rise in sea levels, beach vacationers may find nothing like they used to find before a ht sandy beach in winters. Tourist base has really been a catastrophe isn’t it Tourism pumps our 50 billion dollars into Florida economy and its neibouring nation earn 15 billion dollars each. in fact every US state and some nations depend on tourism to sustain their economy .what will happen to them if the beaches will erode what will happen to the people and the nations future the answer is simple and clear that if we don’t stop it the beaches will ruin . Despite its economy beach erosion also harms the marine life and the plants and the animal inside it. One of the most pervasive effects of global warming is frequent changes in weather raging floods hurricanes and dozens of tornadoes sweeping the landscapes .since the dawn of industrial revolution the frequency of hurricanes have risen by40%

Hunza: Afia Nisar, receiving first price in competition from Deputy commissioner Hunza-Nagar Zafar Waqar Taj. Photo by: Shams

If we increase the tem the air will absorb more moisture in forms of water vapors. by definition evaporation is a cooling process so why is this increase d evaporation not helping global warming. Because the water vapors counter the cooling process while acting as a green house. The overall destabilization of local climates is also a major effect of global warming. All the effects have been discussed but there should be ways to stop them. Global warming can be prevented because where there’s a will then there’s a way. Making little differences in how we do thin in our daily lives can help us a lot. Am I right we can help it by switching off the light when not in use? minimizing the usage of fossil fuel and gasoline less use of aerosol sprays air conditioners and refrigerators ,as the technology has been advanced we can use water or battery generated vehicles but instead we can walk if we are going on a short distance.All these were the policies to prevent global warming. We should try to stop it because there is still time to stop it. LIFE is thee most precious and the dearest things near a person. So what if we don’t live because we also face dangers from it. So, for the sake of our lives let’s take an oath today that from now onwards we will work together on the issue.


The above text is speech delivered by first price winner in competition by Affifa Nisar. She is a brilliant student of AHSSH. she secured first Position in Inter School Speech Competition at Central Hunza level held in F.G.Boys Model School, Karimabad

Feature: Lowering price level of indeginous cash crops, fresh fruits against constant increase price increase in incoming commodity prices irk fomers

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By: Shamsuddin Muhammad

GILGIT, October:There constant decline in prices of indigenous cash crops like that of Potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, carrot and fresh fruits: apple, pear and grape has obscured any good hope to earn even the same price on which these salable items were sold last year. According to statistics available from different commercial points, prices of cash crops especially Potatoes and carrots, the main crops that majority of population of Gilgit Baltistan rely as the second main source of their very survival have been declined for last two months. In the month of July this year,when indigenous agri production starts; the price of Potato and tomato in the local veritable markets in Gilgit-Baltistan could stabilize at the highest level, former at PRK 16 per kilogram (660 per 40 kg) and later at 35 per kilograme in whole sale till the end of August. While the retail prices of the two were recorded as potato Rs.18 per kilogram and tomato 38 to 40 respectively. Similarly, the price of potato and tomato during this tenure in down city markets, Lahore and Rawalpindi on whole sale were: Rs.35 per kg (1400 per 40 Kg) and Rs.52 per kilogram respectively.
GILGIT: Potatoes via a small vehicles were being shifted from Nalter, one of the most beautiful place in GB to main vegitable market and then to down cities. Unstable prices of cash crops have further reduced the standard of living of the poor farmer class. Image by Shams

Yet, the tendency of rapid decline in prices observed since the second week of August when cash crops from lower regions of Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa (KPK) i.e Abotabad, Mansehra and Central Punjab started to reach to veritable market on one hand and imports from India to fill the demand and supply equation, thus reducing the price in the region to a substantial lower price. Currently, the price of same crop in various parts of Gilgit-Baltistan region, popular for the production of potato and tomato vegetables like Naltar, Ishkoman, Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, Khapulo, Rundu, Danyore and outskirts and Jalalabad is declined by around 42 percent, even lower than at the rate on which former managed to get their reward of efforts throughout 12 months in 2009. Another one main factor known is excessive supply from Skardu and Astore region in markets of Lahore and Rawalpindi that drastically reduced the demand thus compelling producers to sell at lower prices.
The situation in case of fresh fruits: apple, pears and grape was also the same. Due to lack of indigenous packaging industry as well as any effective price regulation department in local government structure, local formers have been forced to sell their production according to the commission agents mostly non-locals. There has been a constant demand from social circles of regional governments to provide loans at affordable markup rate to the farmers to enable them establish jointly packaging and storage rooms to cater the demand from down cities in subsequent months of the year, an option to boost economic activities through small medium enterprise initiatives. Ultimately, recognition and addressing of such demands by current regime would save former class from exploitation at the hands of both local and non local commission agents and the move would serve to channelize a better dynamics of relations between producers, intermediaries and end consumers to absorb the positive trends in global economy. Gilgit-Baltistan is expected as the hub of commercial activities of few major rising economies that Pakistan borders in the East and North. For this empowerment of indigenous population of Gilgit-Baltistan on the pattern tested and getting success in Xinjiang province of China.

Aga Khan Girls Higher Secondary school wins inter-schools speech competition;

Speakers places emphasis over use of eco-friendly technology to reduce Co2 emission

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HUNZA, Karimabad, October:Speakers at the inter schools speech competition emphasized on both the developed and developing nation to replace eco-friendly technology to reduce carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere.

Students from eight different schools and the Brilliant English Language center, the organizer of the even participated. The theme of event was " Climate Change and its impact on earth planet' which served to gather a large number of audiences pertaining to different walks of life. Speakers in their speech maintained that human kind in a quest to seek more comfort endangering a balanced eco-system on the planet of earth. Speaker from Sedna School said that climate change has emerged as one of the most dangerous threat to the dwellers on earth." Rise in temperature and subsequent melting of glaciers continue to rise water level that may submerge low lying regions", she added.

HUNZA: Deputy Commissioner Hunza-Nagar and Principal F.G. Boys Model school Karimabad gives away trophies and prices to the winners and runner up participants. Words and photos by: Shams

The first prize winner Afifa Nisar of Aga Khan Girls Higher Secondary school, Karimabad,Hunza said that excessive emission of green house gases have caused to bring many negative developments including reducing agricultural yielding capacity in the land because of droughts and presence of salts. " Besides giving harm to agricultural processes it has had direct affect on human health by breaking out of fatal diseases," she added. A speaker from Brilliant Language centre established that usage of vehicles and machines that uses carbon products have disbalanced the ecological level. " Instead of using of heavy out dated vehicles that emit smoke and cause air pollution we should opt for bicycles, an economy itself, he suggested. He also placed emphasis to undertake efforts to keep their environment clean.
The chief guest Zafar Waqar Taj, deputy commissioner Hunza-Nagar in his concluding speech threw light upon neccessity of care towards our environment and emphasized to stop processes causing to increase either form ofpolution specially that of water and air. He gave away trophies and certificates among the winners and runner up participants.