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Minute-A-Day 04: Why is June 5th World Environment Day?
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Why do we celebrate 5th June as World Environment day? Because nearly half the year has gone and you’ve miserably failed in your new years resolution of segregating your trash. It’s a reminder to be a better person in the second half of the year.
No, okay, seriously though. 5th June is celebrated as world environment day as it marks the beginning of the UN Stockholm Conference, the first real global acknowledgment of humanity’s polluting effect on our ecology. In many ways, the Stockholm declaration, a result of the conference, has shaped many of the ideas central to the climate movement, including the idea of sustainable development. That’s right, we’ve been talking about sustainable development since 1972. 50 years later, how is India doing in achieving that goal? Watch this space to find out.
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