Environment and Emergency are Synonyms World Environment Day or World Emergency day?
2019 witnessed emergencies, not just COVID19, but also a violation of human rights, apartheid, war-refugees, locust attacks, hurricanes and of course political upheavals. Over one billion bio-species are under threat of extinction and that rate of extinction today is hundreds of times more than the average of last 10 million years, as pert IPBES report of 2019. That raises the question: what exactly are we celebrating on World Environment Day? |