I think we Goans have ourselves to blame. Look at the garbage bags thrown in green open areas by motorists. They know they are doing something wrong, but still they do it. If they can drive with a garbage bag on the seat beside them what stops them from driving to a bin and dropping it there? The chucking of garbage bags should be taken seriously and the perpetrators punished. The registration number of the car could be reported to the cops and the culprits could be made to sift through garbage to separate the biodegradable from the non-biodegradable for a month.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:10 PM Subject: [Goanet]COMMENT: Goa -- green, greying or gone? > Goa: Green, greying or gone? > > By Frederick Noronha > > Environmentalism in Goa is a generation old. Way back, in the > mid-seventies, when this label was still to be adequately understood, > fishermen and their landed local allies (including the MLA now in the > news, Matanhy Saldanha) were battling coastal pollution by Goa's first > fertilizer plant. > > In the 'eighties, the spurt of luxury hotels and charter flights saw > tourists being greeted with cow-dung. Drastic this may have been, but it > made the point. From then till now, Goan environmentalism has walked a > long, if often controversy-hit, road.
