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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY : BEAT AIR POLLUTION |
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by Ananya Singh | 05-06-2019 12:26
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Green Morning everyone ! Today is 05 June, internationally dedicated as a day to celebrate and conserve our Environment. World Environment Day is the day we celebrate our collective love of and reliance on nature. It helps to encourage action to protect our environment and fosters a deeper appreciation of our connection to the natural world. With the major environmental challenges we're facing now, we need environmental leadership more than ever. And I'm glad to have been involved with Tunza Eco-Generation in such a capacity. As a 22nd Regional Ambassador, I strongly believe that we all can contribute our small but significant efforts to sustain our environment. Although planting trees is a very remarkable and praise-worthy attempt to nourish Mother Nature, but at the same time, we've to understand that we need to go beyond "merely planting trees" because the environment encompasses a lot of things other than just plants. And since "Beat Air Pollution" is the theme of WED 2019, I'd like to request all of you to do "your" bit for "our" environment. I'm calling you all to join me in shutting down a significant source of air pollution - aviation. The environmental impact of aviation includes emissions of heat, noise, particulates and gases which contribute to climate change and global dimming. Airplanes emit particles and gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, lead, and black carbon which interact among themselves and with the atmosphere. It is true that cars, power stations and factories do more damage but aviation’s contribution to climate change is going to become relatively larger because air travel is growing at an astonishing rate as the new middle classes now find cheaper airlines offering discounted tickets for domestic travel. Forecast says that about 7.8 billion people will become air passengers by 2036, which means that there will be more passengers getting on planes every year than there are people alive in the world today. Hence I request all of you to "fly only when it's the only and last option available" - kindly refrain from using flights for short distances, domestic travel, or when you've a cheaper & reasonable quality alternative like 1st class coach of train available. Flying saves time but not flying will save our environment; the latter is obviously the better. Long live our environment ! #WED2019 Green Love, Ananya Singh
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5 Comments
Hello Ananya
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works. Thank you for your report about world environment day. Would like to wish a happy world environment day too. Hope you had lots of fun and good moments celebrating this global day. We can't stop breathing but we can definitely act to stop pollution. Thanks for your wonderful report and suggestions.
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 16-06-2019 03:46
Hi Ananya,
Thank you for writing about World Environment Day and you've touched on very critical issue of today's world - air pollution. I think it is great to think about some major environmental issues on World Environment Day and contemplate on what we can do to resolve these issues. I really enjoyed reading your report and I hope our world will get better one day! :)
Louis Mentor
Posted 10-06-2019 01:17
Hello Ananya!
Thank you for your wonderful report on world environment day! As we all know, the theme of this year??s world environmental day is “Beat air pollution”, it is very meaningful to have a discussion on what we can do to solve air pollution. Refraining from using flights for short distances or for domestic travel is definitely one way to solve it. Keep up the good work!
Wonhee Mentor
Posted 08-06-2019 22:17
Hlo Ananya,
Happy world environment day,
So happy to see such a concern for our mother earth.
Green cheers.
Posted 06-06-2019 11:32
Hey Ananya!
Yaaassssss!!! Happy Earth day to you fellow ambassador! It is true that when we celebrate Earth Day, we look to our environment with peace and acknowledge its resilience to strive and make of what ever situation to fit its inhabitants.
Thank you for giving us sound advice ambassador, I will do my best to put you suggestions into perspective here :D
Thanks you for reporting!
Warm regards,
Rosa
Posted 05-06-2019 14:16