Air pollution has casted its shadow upon Tehran :

 

As you already know, unfortunately in the past few days a thick cloud of air pollution has casted its shadow upon Tehran and has exposed its citizens to The dangers of toxic gases, particle pollution and dangerous smog. This situation threatens the health and safety of the people seriously but also other living things like trees and birds won't be immune from these poisons.

Unfortunately, this is happening while warnings of the environmental activists and their insistence for the execution of environmental laws as well as the actions of the environmental organizations are declared useless and frivolous activities by some entities. Anyway, the present crisis will pass soon, but the causes of air pollution and other environmental problems shall remain as strong as ever. The present crisis has truly shown that environmental problems have a close relation or connection with human lives and their health and safety, and that the human life is dependent on a clean and healthy environment. Thus, environmental activities are not useless and frivolous. Solving the environmental problems is beyond the capacity of any organization alone; it needs a support and cooperation every body. Therefore, it is suggested that the legal and financial bottlenecks of environmental organizations be eliminated as soon as possible so that the awful participation of people in environmental matters can be facilitated.

The mass media must have a crucial role in environmental issues until the people become subconsciously aware of the environmental problems. This would result in implementing organization to enforce the minimum available laws seriously.

The Green front of Iran as a non government, non profit and non political organization is prepared to cooperate with all environmental activists and the enforcement organizations for better protection of the environment.

  12 th , Dec. 1998

Air pollution :

Dear Citizen:

Have you ever thought about the heavy traffic's irrevocable losses? 

Do you know?

•   How much of the best hours of our lives are spent in our urban commute? 

•   About 65% of our urban pollution is caused by traffic within the city?

•   Most of the mental disorders and corporeal illnesses like various sorts of cancer are caused by noise pollution contaminates and poisons which are produced by the exhaust smoke of our cars?

•  What kind of irreparable damage does this urban pollution have on ecological balance?

What should we do now?

By having individual and social responsibility, by educating ourselves and others and by paying attention and implementing the recommendations of the experts, we may reduce and/or eliminate this irrevocable damage.