World Environment Day

'WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY'

When there is a busy world in Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things etc we as the occupants of this planet earth find ourselves stuck with our gadgets and do not know about what is happening to our planet outside. Our planet is getting polluted day by day by the emission of CFCs which is causing a great threat to the ozone layer leading to the disastrous Global Warming.

Considering this, the UNITED NATIONS has proposed a campaign for the protection of environment on June 5 1974 which came to be known as “World Environment Day”. This small thought set up a huge platform for almost 143 countries taking part in this campaign every year. Every environment day brings in a new idea on how to conserve our environment and adopt to advocate environmental causes.

Concerning the world environment day the earth anthem is proposed which reads:

“Our Cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl

The most beautiful planet in the universe

All the continents and oceans of the world

United we stand as flora and fauna

United we stand as species of one earth

Black, brown, white different colours

We are humans, the earth is our home”

The main reason for celebrating this environment day is to successfully get carbon neutrality, focusing on the forest management, reducing greenhouse effect, promoting bio fuels production by planting on degraded lands, use of hydro power to enhance electricity production and so on.

In a country like India, how far are we taking the environmental issues into concern every now and then we see people littering here and there making the environment polluted. 

Though campaigns like “Swacch bharat” which was launched on 2^nd October 2014 brought some change in the mind-set of people to keep the environment clean but as to how far this is successful, still the slums of Dharavi in Mumbai are existing where no proper hygienic conditions exist and people are surviving there. The people have to themselves bring a change in attitude as to keep the environment clean by not littering, preventing the usage of plastic, use of pollution free modes of transport and so on.

The concern for the planet Earth has to start from within us which can be improved by planting more and more trees conserving the forest and wildlife by preventing deforestation, throwing wastes in the water can lead to severe threat to sea life so we must control it.Control the emissions of highly toxic gases like the Bhopal Gas tragedy that occurred in 1984 which took lives of many people because of the gas Methyl Iso cyanate.

If we work together as a team we have every possible chance to conserve our planet earth and environment.

“This is where we live

Why are we hurting our home?

Live on our earth

Love our earth

This is the only one we have

Let’s save it”.

Courtesy:

Mr. Shashank

Deptt. of Information Technology (2016-2018)

Ms. Manisha Singh

Deptt. of Finance (2016-2018)