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Journalism of Courage
PIO for the UN Safe Planet Campaign,Michael Jones feels that youngsters across the globe will play an important part to help preserve the environment.
The sight of industries dumping toxic chemcials and heavy metals into fresh water sources might be something that may not cause a dent into the conscious of people watching the same on the television. However when the same chemicals manage to enter the food chain and subsequently begin to accumulate in the human body,that is when it starts to become a issue that can pose a potential threat to the future generations.
The two-day festival will showcase films such as Body Burden by B Howard,Submission-In defence of Unborn by Stefan Jarl,Eco-Crime-Ozone Killers by Heinz Greuling and Ozzy Ozone that is been made by the UNEP. Speaking more about the Safe Planet Campaign,Jones says that the recently introduced campaign will be a ten year long initiative and will employ directives from the conventions that were held at Basel,Stockholm and Rotterdam. “The campaign basically aims at providing sustainable solutions for various environmental problems that are being caused due to the over exposure of chemicals. Amongst these issues,the problems of newborns being born with high level of chemcials in their body as a result of over exposure to them during the gestation period is something that is a major concern now.”
Jones however does admit that problems related to the environment are different with respect to the various geographical terrains across the globe. “Sound management of hazardous chemcials is something that can be achieved only by proper coordination between the government agencies and the people. This can be achieved when youngsters and students at universities take active part towards taking a firm step in stopping these irreversible changes. If not it is a road downhill to a one way stop to we all know where,” he says optimistically.
