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School children are litterbugs too
Dear Editor,
The patient’s condition is serious. Symptoms are multiple. Poison has been found in body fluids. When symptoms are treated in one area, more pop up in other body parts.
If this were a usual patient, doctors would be inclined to declare the multiple sicknesses as chronic and terminal. Not knowing what else to do, they would just take steps to make the patient as comfortable as possible until the end came.
However, this is not a human patient. It is our home — Guyana. The above scenario well illustrates what is happening to our dear land. Clogged sluice, garbage infested drain, animal decay on our streets are just a few of the maladies of our land. Like the doctors mentioned above, the experts are in a quandary as to what to do. It is imminent that a major epidemic will break loose if we don’t change our litter free ways.
The M&CC cleanup campaign is noticeable and noteworthy yet a main detriment of the matter have not been rectify.
The editorial of this newspaper regularly calls attention to the litter crisis afflicting our country in aid to find solutions.
The truth is that while most people are concerned about the environment, many think nothing of throwing trash on the ground, dumping garbage in a trench. Such acts may seem like small things, but if each of us were wary of how we treated our environment it would be much more environmentally friendly to our eyes and our health. After all, it is our home — and hopefully the home of our children and their children.
However, in spite of how good the cause may be, there will always be those acting ruinously against it and steep fines and penalties should be enforced when litterbugs are caught in the act.
It must be noted however, that school children are also a major contributor to the stockpiles of garbage you may notice laying on our roadways and elsewhere. They don’t know better they are just following by the poor example of society.
Thus it would be sensible for the relevant authorities to implement programmes in schools that sensitize the pupils upon the harms and detriments of littering. Posters and billboards would also facilitate the cause.
Adrian Bastian
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