The brown haze began in London. People woke up on the morning of 5th December, 1952, and found their whole city to be choked by dense black smoke. Nobody was helping out with anyone else. Visibility was zero. Cars cannot see the other cars. Train drivers cannot see the tracks. Pilots cannot see the runways and children, parents and spouses cannot see each other. The whole city had disappeared in the haze. It was at night when it was determined to be not mist, but torture in a heavy darkness of smoke. It accounted for the deaths of 4,000 people the next day. People began coughing and dying. Public activity in London came to a near stop. Traffic stopped. Trains ceased. Flights were grounded. Workplaces and schools shut. Retail plazas closed down and people stopped going out of their homes. There was a muted quality to the city. This silence was punctuated by the rumor of ambulances. The graveyards were overcrowded and in hospitals, dead bodies and the sick were lying on the same bed. This The killing continued for five days. The night of December 9, it began to rain and the air began to clear but the killing continued. Towards the end of December, 12,000 people in London had died, while 150,000 people were suffering from asthma, conjunctivitis, tuberculosis and mental breakdown. Environmental researchers began investigating. It was discovered that between December 5 and 9, a thousand tons of smoke particles were released in the atmosphere of London daily. They consisted of 140 tons of hydrochloric acid, 14 tons of fluorine compounds and 370 tons of sulfur dioxide. This was a huge amount of things that were pretty destructive to health. Experts had started wondering where all these particles came from. This was noticed since it was the smoke of seven and a half hundred years of mistakes. This cycle started in 1200. In seven and a half hundred years, London’s population grew tenfold, forests were cut down, rivers and lakes disappeared, towns and towns moved to the city, fields and farms turned into horse stables. Lodging social orders were beneath the city, the present change started, a huge number of generation lines were set up in the city, energy was developed, coal-based power plants were set up, train the board began, cable autos came, vehicles came, improvement began, The Second Great War likewise blew smoke and at long last individuals additionally began to exhaust. So the air of London turned smoky, oxygen in the air decreased. This process went on till 1952, winter set in, and people started burning coal in their chimneys; hence, a vast amount of loads of smoke were produced. This smoke was “stirred up” with the pollution of seven and a half centuries, mixed with the December fog and became a deep, thick, and black gas, and that gas kept on wandering the town for five days. Experts combined the words smoke and haze and bestowed on this fog the title “smog cloud” and declared this “catastrophe of London as the Greatest Smog cloud of London”. Conservationists studied the brown haze. Now was the hour to tackle it. The responsibility for treating it was the Liberal Party. KMP Sir Gerald David Lee, like the Sharif family, was an accountant and businessman. He entered governmental issues in 1950. He had as of late turned into an individual from the Place of Hall amid the Great Brown haze of London. He kicked up and off making an arrangement to clean up London’s air. He worked with experts for a very long time until he framed the “Clean Air Act” in 1956. This act was introduced in the House of Hall and the House supported it on July 5, 1956. This act contained six key changes. The public authority regulated the use of coal in the city. It was declared that the public at large would be provided with alternative hotspots for “chimneys”. These sources of power were provided by the public authority soon. This act led to the modern warming system. It was also decided to make power cheaper during winter so that people could warm their houses through power. The public authority closed plants in the city and also gave free land outside the city to the owners. Charges were loose and advances were likewise given to move manufacturing plants. All power plants were moved to backwoods away from London in two years or less. Chopping down trees in and around London, changing the situation with rural land and it were restricted to kill green regions. The Sovereign’s Street was brought under recorded consent before its forest produce were cut and it was decided to increase public vehicle, surpass private vehicles and enhance the quality of petroleum down. The Lodge Place supported these measures. The government led operations and just four years after the approval of the Demonstration, in 1960, London’s air turned out to be completely “brown haze free”. This Act was so completed and harsh that Sir Gerald David himself had to suffer its worst part. His own industrial establishments were also thrown out of London. We now come from the Great Brown haze of London to the Great Exhaust cloud of Lahore. Punjab has been witnessing extreme brown haze for the last three years. In the long stretch of November, Lahore, Bahawalnagar, Pakpattan, Faisal Abad and Toba Tek Singh are lost in poisonous haze. Punjab is again shrouded under the exhaust cloud this time too. In the event that there are 80 micrograms of poisonous substances in our air, our lungs can tolerate them, but in Lahore and its rural areas, the contamination rate is now 200 micrograms per cubic meter. In case we check the air we will find a lot of carbon monoxide, sulfur and nitrogen in it. This mass number of substances are injurious. There is also an extreme scarcity of oxygen in the demeanor of Lahore up to 300 to 400 feet. You can think of how this hazardous this air is to wellbeing through smoking. On the off chance that we smoke 50 cigarettes day by day, our lungs will get harmed the equivalent as taking in Lahore’s air for a day. India is in a more terrible circumstance than us. In India, 1.5 million individuals kicked the bucket because of dim haze in 2012. In Lahore as well,
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