Dr. Mirza Arshad Ali Beg, Director?General, PCSIR had written review on the said book of Shali Haider Danish and observed as under:??

The disarray in the Pakistan social system is mainly due to failure of the system responsible for management of resources and is largely asocial maladjustment due to prevalence of the negative forces. The latter does not recognize the inappropriate processes that have become part of lifestyle and are causing damages to the social environment. Pakistanis are suffering from another syndrome, the one related to Management Crisis. No one will disagree with Danish that many of the degradation processes confronting the aesthetics of the physical environment are due to bad management and thus the making of mankind itself. This has been discussed by him in the Chapters `Sunshine, Solar Energy and the Advancing Shadows` and `Pursuit of a Nutritive Morsel`.
Environment describes the interaction of the living species, including man and animals, with water, air, soil and sunshine. Mankind has tried to modify the living environment to enjoy a quality of life that is better than the immediate past. In doing so, he has used up the natural resources extensively to the stage of reaching the critical limits and degrading the environmental conditions. Pakistanis have modified the environment in their own way by adopting short?cut?to?success methods to achieve the same goals which the industrialized countries attained through hard work, patience and of course with the motives to attain superiority in war and peace i.e. in weapons and trade and industry.
The air pollution is largely the result of continuous input of toxic pollutants, discharged by an increasing number of vehicles. The pollutants include lead and unburnt hydrocarbons, 2.4, benzopyrene, carbon mono?oxide, nitrogen oxide from the combustion of petrol and cadmium from the wearing of tyres. A cloud of smoke builds up towards the evening over all crossings in the city centres all over the country. With traffic jams becoming common now; the carbon mono?oxide level reaches alarming proposition of 40 to 80 pin continuously for almost 1 to 1.5. minutes in the micro environment of all the traffic congestion points, specially at the middle of the roads. Diesel oil, furnace oil and coal, used .for energy production contain large quantities of sulphur than desired. The stroke nuisance has been vehemently protested in most American cities and there has, accordingly been a shift towards elimination of the smoke nuisance by substituting less smoky fuel and by enforced employment of combustion practices designed to eliminate smoke.
The Qur`anic instructions with regard to maintenance of water balance demand that the quality and quantity of water should be conserved at all cost. In order to maintain the quality, it becomes mandatory not to allow water to mix in with any material that is not permitted. If we had followed this Qur`anic injunction, no pollutant would have entered our water bodies, our soil may not have been salinized or intoxicated, our sea beaches may not have become unsafe for picnickers. We the believers in cleanliness being next to godliness, would have been the most environment friendly and socially very highly placed people and not the dirtiest and the most corrupt of the lot.
The natural balance has again been emphasised in verse 15:2,1, And there is not a thing but with us are the stores thereof. And we send it down only in appointed measure. The methodology adopted by Allah to maintain the balance is described in verse 15:22, and we end the winds fertilizing and cause water to descend from the sky, and give it to you for drinking. It is not you who are the holders of the stores thereof in the form of waterfalls, rivers, lakes and canals. "The way the life processes are governed is described in verse 15:23, "We it is who govern the life processes and their termination resulting in death".
Irreversible damage has been done to the soil by excessive use of water and other inputs for which the Government has been providing subsidy. Much against the concept of sustainable agriculture, and conservation of resources as against overexploitation, restrained by the Holy Qur`an, there has been a loss of soil as well as its productivity. It is, therefore, imperative that structural imbalances that have occurred through the past neglect of important sectors of water and soil management and plant protection are rectified. For this purpose sustainable crop production will have to be introduced and locally available resources viz. organic manure, plants, trees, animals, natural biocides, and traditional cropping skills will have to be employed.
18. The General Conclusions that can be drawn from this book is that the degradation of physical as well?social environment is increasing at a rapid rate at the hands of mankind. That the humans will introduce negative forces and degrade the ecosystem was already known to Allah when?He, as the know?all, according to verse 7:11, created mankind from putrefied clay, then fashioned, and then told the angels: Fall prostrate before Adam! The obedient angles fell prostrate; but not Satan. I had suggested that human behaviour and physico?chemical laws are inter?related. I would like to apply here the arguments put forward in the book. It was suggested that the use of negative forces is related to disorderliness or entropy of a system and degradation of the ecosystem is a indication of rise in entropy.
The relevant passages of said Book are reproduced hereunder:
The contention of learned Addl. A.?G. that Provincial Environment Department cannot take action on account of non?framing their rules and regulations by the competent authority under the provisions of the Pakistan Environment Protection Act, 1997 has no force in view of the law laid down by the Honourable Supreme Court in the following judgments:??