World Environment Day 2020

World Environment Day 2020

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What is Environment?

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. 

Why we are celebrating (Every Year)?

World Environment Day is held each year on June 5. The purpose is to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. 

Why are we celebrating every year? We celebrate our birthdays every year; it is a process of appreciation of our accomplishments (or responsibilities) and hoping for the betterment in further. It is similar to that; we should celebrate a dedicated day for some particular persons, things, system because statistics say that there are: 360,000 births per day. 151,600 people die (now it is more because of the Covid19 pandemic). I am sure that this day is new for many kids and elders who may have forgotten.    

What do we want?

All the species in the world wants to live in an excellent environment, and the environment includes all the living and non-living things (land, air, water, human, animals, etc.). We the human also wants to live in a friendly and pure environment. Still, the pure/pleasant environment is possible only if we respect other fellow fellows in the same environment. As a family, the family will be happier and prosperous only if all the family members are collectively loving and supportive.

But these days it is nearly impossible to live together as a family, and the reasons are many that we know already. We can not even survive as a family (of say 10) in the same home then. How can we expect to live peacefully with other fellows in an environment with 8.7 million diverse species (living and non-living)? We can not.

I will tell you the case study of breaking the law: Now the population has increased rapidly, and we lost most natural habitats. So usually, we will plan a family trip to leftover natural habitats popular with names national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. If not possible, any nearby forest sites. So, we need food, shelter to survive there. So we will pack everything mostly in single-use plastic bags because while return we want to come with less luggage if we have toddlers, single-use diapers (most observed wastage by me). So finally, our trip ends successfully, but the place we visited is no longer a natural habitat because we don't have common sense, gratitude, and this goes on we are searching for the fresh one again. I am not mentioning the consequences of plastic here because we have a better idea. There are many cases like these includes industries and their wastage, projects, etc.

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Why are we are running behind?

Whatever the knowledge we are getting is mainly through education and our government included environmental studies, tours to nearby natural habitats(with care) in the academics start from the schools. But I can say from my personal experience; it is the most neglected subject I ever had gone through. We are interested in competitive studies rather than studies which uplift our healthy lifestyle, which gives personality, at least common sense.

Kids become adults, citizens, and senior citizens. If they don't learn things in their studies or from elders, they can not learn forever. If we don't know how to preserve our environment, we will be a burden to nature, and it will eliminate us, but mind it, nature's curse is not selective. It will kill all (we are experiencing now).

What do we need to do?

Nothing new; we have to wait for the following environment day. Getting to know our faults solves 60% of the problem. 
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A blog by Gnanasekhar Kamparaju

Visual Storyteller, Photographer (Nature, Bird), Research Scholar
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