World Environment Day - Only One Earth.

 

Today as we prepare ourselves to celebrate the ''World Environment Day', with the campaign 'Only One Earth', it is time for us to remind ourselves of what the father of our nation - Mahatma Gandhi - famously said 'the earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed'.

In the unending expanse of our ever expanding universe, which harbours billions and billions of galaxies, including our very own Milky Way Galaxy, and each galaxy birthing billions of stars that include our very own life giving and life sustaining star - the Sun - which is just one among those billions of stars that make up our 'Akash Ganga' galaxy, our Sun, as we know it today, is perhaps the only known star in the universe, which cradles our life sustaining planet Earth, where life in its myriad forms and unending diversity has evolved on our pale blue planet.

Speaking of the uniqueness of our planet, on this world environment day, we are reminded of that famous book with that poetic out look for our earth - 'Pale Blue Dot' book - written by Carl Sagan. This book was inspired by a pale blue dot image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on 14 February 1990. The book reveals the uniqueness of our planet in those inimitable words of Sagan " Pale Blue Dot" and it makes a fascinating reading. It stresses the importance of campaign theme for the World Environment Day.
'Only One Earth'. It also reminds us all for a collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet.

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Let us all join hands to achieve this.
Wishing you all a very happy world environment day.