The City

Welcome to the city!
 
 where huge industries are to be found,
 
Producing garments, food staffs and detergents
 
Making cars, shoes and all sorts of bits and pieces.
 
Look! The heavy black smoke
 
That is Industrial Area,
 
It’s an Indication, the Factories are active…
 
 offering employment to our sons and daughters,
 
and generating revenue for the government
 
Wealth creation, it is!
 
 
 
This pollution is titanic, and to a greater extent than we can see
 
As they burn the fuels, and carry out their manufacturing activities,
 
They release to theatmosphere Ozone depleting substances
 
In form of refrigerants, carbon dioxide, SOX and NOX
 
To the water and land too, they make discharges
 
That harms all the more, our planet earth
 
See, that is a dump site,
 
Where all the solid waste generated is deposited,
 
Hoping it would vanish
 
And yet not all is bio-degradable!
 
 
 
Oh no brother, it’s not that industries close down,
 
But that, they stop the business as usual path,
 
Assess their significant aspects and impacts,
 
put in mitigation measures to control them,
 
identify  where energy is used and where it is wasted,
 
practice energy efficiency and use renewable sources of energy;
 
Stop the use of ozone depletion substances,
 
and embrace green manufacturing,
 
for the green revolution MUST begin!