Environment is the most precious gift to humans and also to every creature on the earth. Precious, a word used to something that is of great value, something that cannot be wasted, something that should be treated wisely. Air, water, soil, trees, forest, plants, ocean, animals, every element of this environment is precious. Earth is precious and our environment is the most beautiful thing on the earth. But any precious thing that is treated carelessly, does not remain the same, it changes! We start losing that thing. And now, our environment is changing and we are slowly losing it.
Temperature on the earth is increasing rapidly every year. The 7 warmest years in the 1880-2020 record have all occured since 2014. Sea levels are raising and our lands are sinking. Major cities like Venice, Jakarta, Bangkok, also including Mumbai and Kolkata are in the list of rapidly sinking cities. Pollution is increasing everyday. Air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution all are becoming a common thing in today's world. Extreme weather conditions like drought, flood, cyclone are becoming more frequent and more severe.
Deforestation is the major problem today. Globally we deforest around 10 million hectares of forest every year. Even though half of this deforestation is offset by regrowing forest, we lose around 5 million hectares of forest every year. The research says 15.3 billion trees are chopped down every year. Many species and animals lose their habitat. Once thier habitat is lost, they are on their way to extinction. According to the recent estimates, the world is losing 137 species of plants animals and insects every day due to deforestation. By this, we can say that we are losing our biodiversity, our ecosystem, our environment. Even if this is not extreme, even if we won't see the results of this act in the near future, when the time comes, it is going to happen fairly rapidly. There's a saying "We will never know the worth of water until the well is dry". Let us not wait till our earth becomes worse. Let us not wait until we lose our environment completely.
It's World environment day today. It is one of the biggest events celebrated every year in the world. We all have heard of environment conservation ever since childhood. UN started to celebrate this day to encourage the world wide awareness and take action to conserve our environment. The theme of this year's environment day is "Reimagine, Recreate, Restore". This year marks the beginning of decade on "Ecosystem Restoration". The UN has given the call. This is our moment. We cannot turn back the time. But we can grow trees, green our cities clean up the rivers and restore our ecosystem. It is the people's day to take care of the earth and the environment. The human population must bring some little changes in its lifestyle that can help restore the natural order of environment. Let us all REIMAGINE a beautiful green planet, RECREATE a healthy environment, RESTORE the ecosystem. Better environment, better tomorrow! HAPPY WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY!
