World Earth day- 2021

Sanatan Dharma and ancient science explain the human consciousness around the five elements, earth, water, fire, air, and sky. The presence of man due to these five elements has been universally acknowledged by today's science and ancient discoveries as religious and cultural.

Earth is our basis, the importance of this universal earth, which is considered as the mother by Sanatan Dharma, is celebrated all over the world on April 22 every year.

The slogan of World Earth Day 2021 is to restore the earth. Many things are not returning to normal on Earth in this Post-covid era, that's why the slogan for World Earth Day 2021 is to "Restore our Earth".

This day is celebrated as the beginning of modern environmental programs and consciousness in the 1970s. In 2009, the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations decided to observe April 22 as World Earth Day. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated this day for the first time. The day was marked as an environmental education program led by US Senator Gerald Nelson. The Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, provided much-needed support for the need for Earth Day.

Following the decision of the United Nations, this day is now celebrated with grandeur in more than 192 countries. April 22 is the northern hemisphere's spring season, and the southern hemisphere's autumn season, these differences of the mother earth are also represented by April 22.

Launched in 1970, this day enters its 51st year in 2021. By then, the world community is committed to fulfilling its ambitious plan for clean and green earth by reducing pollution.

Rising global temperatures are another major challenge in the 20th century. Earth's temperature is rising at a rate of zero point 18 degrees Celsius every year. Due to which the ice peaks at the North Pole of the Earth are melting. Incidents of natural disasters, such as ozone depletion, terrifying storms, and tsunamis, are increasing. Man himself is responsible for all these things and no one else. April 22nd is the day to look back on human steps and rectify collectively for forthcoming years.

Even the highest laboratories that can create and build large airplanes and atomic bombs cannot make a pinch of soil, soil is nature, the wind is nature's tendency and water is life. Today, workshops and other events around the world are being held in more than 193 countries to discuss the protection, utilization, and proper use of all these things. Unlike other years, the past two years (2020 and 2021) are more focused on virtual events because of infection risk.

Various public awareness programs are being conducted in Nepal on the occasion of Earth Day. Social organizations working in the field of environment and environment protection in Nepal have been conducting various programs on the occasion of Earth Day. Government officials show solidarity by attending such events.

On Earth Day, students from various colleges and schools organize awareness rallies against the growing pollution on Earth. In some countries, Earth Day is celebrated as a week-long event from April 16 to 22.

Despite technology and business, knowledge of planting trees, growing greenery, cycling, and using renewable energy as much as possible, less use of plastic, and knowledge of environmental protection are needed today. Nature is paramount, its protection is our duty. Happy Earth Day to the world May the love of the earth grows from the summit of Mount Everest to the surface of the Dead Sea.

Suyog Dhakal