The Environmental Problems in Tbilisi
Generally, Environmental problems are the most important issue in the world but mostly we – people – do not notice attention to this fact. We might have known the general situation connected with environmental damages in the global world, but what happen in our city – in Tbilisi?
Tbilisi is one of the most polluted city in
the world. On the world scale which indicates The highest and Lowest –ranked
Cities Globally, Tbilisi takes 191st place before the African and
Asian cities but it is the most polluted place among the European Capital
cities. Besides that, the smog which is a type of air pollution – the Black
thick smokes or fumes – became much more visible over Tbilisi than it was ten
years ego. Georgian experts exclaim that the level of carbon dioxide (CO2)
is twenty time times larger than it is standard. For instance: The norm of
carbon dioxide contention in air is 5% percent while in Tbilisi it is more than
100% percent.
Unfortunately we have not only air pollution
problems but unsolved littering issues too. In this case we should confess our
own fault. Everybody see littering streets in Tbilisi. Most of us express
annoyance to this fact but while we are throwing cigarette butts or plastic
bottles and packets ourselves we do not remember our fault. We see only others
offences. We do not pay attention special signs. For example if bins are only
for cigarette butts we put in everything like: packets, bottles, papers but not
cigarette butts at all. What we should do? What is the best way out to stop
this process?
Firstly, something should be done from
government. Connected to the first above-mentioned problem about air pollution,
local government of Tbilisi says that unsolved air pollution issue will carry
on until 2017.The facts indicates that air pollution has increased by 5 times
larger than it was in 2003. Mostly it is caused by building works and car
fumes. Also, amount of cars are visibly increased. For example: In 2007 there
were 603 000 thousand cars in Tbilisi while in 2015 there are more than one
million. From 2017 government is going to do strict reforms. For instance: they
are going to pass the law about cars. From 2017 government will control the
amounts of old cars in the city. Moreover, they are planning to create high
fines connected to littering.
Personally, I think that not only strict
fines or laws are good decision to root out environmental problems. I think
that government should do encouraging activities for citizens. Once I heard
from my teacher that the signs in European cities which are warning us, are
positively written than in strictly way. We should compare these two warning
sings: 1 - ‘Littering is strictly forbidden!’ or 2 – ‘Thanks! That you are not littering’. I wanted to show
that encouraging sings or activities have much better result than strict laws
or high fines.
To conclude I will say that the
environmental situation in Tbilisi is quite concerning. So, what we should do?
Not only Government but also People should try to take care of their city which
is pretty important place for them.
Reference:
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http://geocities-tbilisi.ge/
Ekaterine Kvantaliani
