TOGETHER WE CAN ACT, TOGETHER WE CAN PROTECT
FOR NATURE: JUNE 5, WORLD
ENVIRONMENTAL DAY
“I CAN FIND GOD IN NATURE, IN
ANIMALS, IN BIRDS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT” – PAT BUCKLEY
Celebrated every year on June
5th to stress on the importance of the active participation in conserving
the environment, WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY is celebrated to emphasis on sustain
living in the age of indiscriminate waste production. Since 1974, it has been
45 years and celebrated every year on 5th June for raising awareness
on emerging issues such as global warming, wildlife crime, human overpopulation
and action towards protection of our environment. .It is hosted every year by a
different city and commemorated with an international exposition through the
week of June 5.
World Environment Day is one
of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations (UN) stimulates
worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and
action towards improving the environment. This observance also provides an opportunity
to sign or ratify international environmental conventions. The main colors
featured in many promotions for this event are natural colors depicting nature,
the Earth and its natural resources. Images of natural Earth’s features, such
as mountains, beaches, rivers, and pictures of flora and fauna, including fern
and leaves, are used to promote campaigns supporting the day.
Each year the celebrations
focus on a particular problem. Over the last ten years key features have
included wildlife, forests and plastic waste, air pollution and other things.
Each issue have a slogan like “raise your voice, not sea level”, “Think, eat,
save”. Hashtags have also become important for the campaigns too.
According to the United Nations, “With 1 million
species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to focus
on biodiversity.”For 2020, the theme for
World Environment Day is ‘Celebrate
Biodiversity’, which, as per the United Nations, a concern that is both
urgent and existential. Citing the recent events taking place in Brazil, the
US, Australia, Africa and the global COVID-19 pandemic, it said it all
demonstrates the interdependence of humans and the webs of life, in which they
exist.As has been happening every year, Colombia
has this year been chosen as the country to host the World Environment Day 2020
event in collaboration with Germany. Last year it had been hosted by China, and
the theme had been ‘Beat Air pollution’.
Biodiversity
is the foundation that supports life on land and water below.Our planet comprises of living and non-living things, and
each has a role to play in keeping the environment safe. When the environment
is clean, people, animals and plants thrive, and we as humans have to ensure
that we keep it that way.
. As we approach the World Environment Day on June 5, it is a time
to reflect on our relationship with Nature and surroundings, wake up to the
urgency of the climate crisis and focus on the planet’s long-term survival
instead of plundering it for short-term profits.
These days when the world is either freezing or melting or there
is environmental exceptional times like COVID-19, the situation does look
bleak, but there is hope and together we can act. In our country where
industrialization is rapid and cost of development is often harming the
environment, states like Kerala has planted more than one crore plant saplings.
It is important that we do our part too by implementing things that we are
taught since childhood. It is important that we conserve energy and educate ourselves
and others too. The little things like following the three R’s to conserve
natural resources , volunteering for cleanups in your locality, closing the
running tap whenever you see one, switching of the lights in your classrooms,
in your homes, shopping wisely and using cloth bags , also planting a tree and
use of bicycles for a short distance.
So, this environment day, let us pledge to make a cleaner and
greener environment and let us be more responsible. Let us pledge to make our
environment so lively, so vibrant and so beautiful. Let us join hands to save
our planet. We are planting sapling,are you?
THE NATURE IS SENDING A MESSAGE
To
care for ourselves we must care for nature.
-Pooja
Sarkar
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The quote holds true especially in the times when on one hand the world
is fighting with this pandemic together and on the other hand nature is
healing slowly and gradually.
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