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Let’s Make Every Day an Environment Day

Like previous years, this year too, we are celebrating World Environment Day, on 5 th June. The theme chosen by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is “Raise Your Voice, Not the sea level” with a focus on the dangers small islands are facing due to climatic changes occurring in our environment. As a part of the celebration of the World Environment Day, many programmes have been lined up across the globe, both at local level as well as by different states and countries. Barbados, the Caribbean island more famous for its fast bowlers, has been chosen as the host country for this year’s celebration. Let’s pause a little, and go back to events exactly a year ago. Like this year, we had celebrated last year also. What was the theme for last year’s World Environment Day? Which country was the host country? Many of us, including you and me do not remember that. Do we? We must have celebrated it, like every year, on 5 th June 2013 and 6 th June onwards we got busy in our own liv...