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Climate change: A massive threat for inhabitants
Thar Desert, the biggest desert of Pakistan is Spread over the geographic region of 19,623 sq. kilometers, and is home to approximately 1.6 million inhabitants , whereas the number of livestock is estimated to be six million.
Agriculture in Tharparkar is totally dependent on rains and a year without rain could be considered as drought. Although this year in July Thar received a massive rain but still it couldn’t relieved the dwellers of Thar from drought which has taken several of lives in past three years.
During the past year heat wave in Karachi which caused deaths of thousands of people. Similar situation were also observed in Tharparkar, where hundreds of child mortality cases have been claimed. This become primarily due to malnutrition – food-poor mothers gave births to weak, premature infants who died within few days of their births.
On my recent of Tharparkar, I met with few villagers of Pabohar village and ManSingh of village Pabohar was one of them. He told me that the villagers are more concerned about the death of their animals. Among other villagers ManSingh’s primary concern is his cattle that have died in a huge number. He told me that he had around 200 cows, 100 sheep, and 150 goats before a few years ago, but now his 70% cattle have died due to drought and he said that similar situation has also been seen in livestock of other people in his village. ManSingh told me that in his village, the people believes that climate changes has the solely cause of drought and deaths of several cattle. They have a firm believe is because of lesser rains, and in cognizant of the extensive-scale local weather change.
Climate change is likely to be responsible for the increased desertification, while making use of the land for agriculture purpose, which in any other case become used for water supply to desert has resulted in scarcity of water and lessening of forests”.
Climate Specialist believe that in recent decades, the climate changes have seriously affected the desert ecosystem, and harsh weather is making the lives of inhabitants more difficult and according to them, the reason for this is sudden changes in climate patterns, and if necessary steps are not taken on priority basis, then this might cause very adverse impact.
Pursuing your own dreams and ambitions for a change
Never knew that people who give their blessings assumed that my wish would coincide with them. Never knew that my degree was supposed to be a cosmetic brand that qualifies me for a competent man. Never knew working women are inferior to those sitting in the house. Never knew that kitty parties are more acceptable than working for an MNC. Being in existence for more than two decades, when now I open my eyes analyzing what the society has become, makes me feel like an alien. People say you’re different, you are stupid, and you are childish. Once you grow older you’ll realize that marriage is in your best interest. Society never pardons a single woman. You will not achieve anything by making a successful career. Happiness lies in having a family. We have been there, done that. Look at her, she made a career and now she is a director of XYZ Company but she never got married. Look how sad she is, all alone in this world.
Only if they tell me how they gauge her sadness I could dig down the reason for it. Very confidently I have seen people labeling girls as “Bechari” when they are single. I am not against marriages and I would want a happy married life. But who said marriage is a trade-off between dreams and family. Who said girls who are not married or divorced are deemed to be sad in life. How miserable it sounds when a single woman is seen as a lesson to be taken and not an inspiration to be cherished. How awful it is to blame their success as an impediment for happiness. All I know that happiness is a feeling that one experiences, it is reflected in their smile and comes from contentment in their heart. How a man on this earth confidently declares a woman unhappy when happiness cannot be measured in the first place. The sad part is knowing that this happens around you just cannot stand up against them, tell them that they should mind their own business when they don’t know what it takes to get a degree, when they don’t know that professional life is not“happening” like their parties, when they don’t know making career is a serious business. That it takes years of dedication to get to a certain level, when they don’t know the happiness of success in your field of choosing, they basically don’t know that every person is different and may want something different from life. Marriage is not the sole purpose of existence and when they don’t know, they just don’t have to say it.
I wish I could make people realize that trade-off is not the solution, you don’t have to pretend that you are not career-oriented just to get along with someone. How can you bet on a man who doesn’t want you to fulfill your wish? A marriage is a bond of two individual people, who must have their own thoughts, perspectives and dreams. Not a contract between a king and a slave where king never thinks about the slave because the slave never thought he stands a chance. This New Year just promise your heart that you’ll not let it down and believe that dreams come true every day, because they do.
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