Dimapur, June 4 (MExN): The Nagaland Law Students’ Federation (NLSF), on the occasion of World Environment Day, “repent to state that it has become no more an occasion to celebration but one for concern.”
Lamenting that “what it is like when we have rivers that are polluted by toxic waste, when we have air that is not fit to breath and with which we choke when our environment has taken the brunt of man’s inhumanity to his own surroundings,” NLSF Social & Cultural Secretary, Daniel T Sangtam and Asst General Secretary, Atoni Shohe in a press statement said that the Federation called on “one and all on this World Environment Day to built back our environment better for mankind and planet.”
“Biodiversity”, the theme for this year World Environment Day, 2020 is a concern that is both urgent and existential. Recent events, from bushfires in Brazil and Australia to locust infestations across East Africa and certain part of Asia and now a global disease pandemic, clearly demonstrate the superficiality of mankind towards Environment, it stated.
The Federation stated that the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fact that when we destroy biodiversity, we destroy the system that supports human life. All of this we have to say should be an absolute warning cry to our mankind that World Environment Day is a reminder of how much we owe to the Mother Nature.
NLSF appealed “to have the heart to take this as a fundamental duty as enshrined under the Constitution of India to try and work together to ensure for a better Environment not just for us but for generations to come because the Earth that we live is not ours; it is a treasure entrusted to one and all to pass on to the next generation.”
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