Today as we mark world environment day 2020, I believe we must have realised what many voices have said in the past few years- how vulnerable the human race is, and realising on how strong a reaction from nature can be. Covid, Cyclones, locust. (1/n)
#WorldEnvironmentDay2020
#WorldEnvironmentDay2020
What we also hopefully have noticed, is the things we missed out on, the things we forgot to notice, things we tried to destroy, in our fast paced lives that had no satisfaction as target. Greed had changed the definition of “development” for us. (2/n) #WorldEnvironmentDay2020
The world has never come to a stand still like this before, and yet we are so surprised and in awe of nature that is healing, absorbing and showing us its beauty. Birds chirping, clear skies, crisper twilights. Albeit for most of us, still on a phone screen (3/n)
We need to realise that we are a part of the same planet. We are nature. It isn’t we v/s nature. If we care for nature, we are caring for ourselves. Every element of everything we use, is from this very planet. Development must be development of nature and in sync with nature
While all of us mark this day, we at Department of Environment, Government of Maharashtra have decided to commit and work on a few things that will make this department more active in not just caring for nature but interconnecting it with every other dept.
As ministers, my colleague MoS Sanjay Bansode ji and I, along with the entire dept have proposed the name of the dept to be Dept of Environment and Climate Change.
Our goals too increase from just regulations to active climate change mitigation.
Our goals too increase from just regulations to active climate change mitigation.
Apart from the addition to our name we are adding to our promise of working for nature, and hence for us all. The theme for 2020 of the #WorldEnvironmentDay2020 by @UN @UNEP is #TimeForNature and in keeping with that, we are working on as follows in the thread ahead
Traditionally, the 5 elements of nature is what we want to work on. While we do this, our interactions, interconnectivity, exchange of ideas and it’s implementation with our other Departments in GoM will yield results, and working with organisations and enthusiastic individuals
5 elements of nature & suggested aims:
Earth: to work on afforestation, land degradation prevention, solid waste management to prevent run offs etc. with departments and organisations involved in the same.
Likewise,
Wind: Air Pollution, Air Quality Index improvement
Earth: to work on afforestation, land degradation prevention, solid waste management to prevent run offs etc. with departments and organisations involved in the same.
Likewise,
Wind: Air Pollution, Air Quality Index improvement
Water: river cleaning, ocean fronts, marine biodiversity etc
Fire: largely interpreted as energy, to work on renewable energy, responsible energy consumption
Sky: the possibilities of the sky are limitless, and to achieve this height, a change in human nature campaign
Fire: largely interpreted as energy, to work on renewable energy, responsible energy consumption
Sky: the possibilities of the sky are limitless, and to achieve this height, a change in human nature campaign
To work on these elements of nature and to support our efforts, the Dept and MPCB will deploy ₹100 crores on various initiatives in total in the coming time.
We hopefully have realised how important a clean and healthy environment is to all of us.
#WorldEnvironmentDay2020
We hopefully have realised how important a clean and healthy environment is to all of us.
#WorldEnvironmentDay2020
I strongly believe our great nation can show the way. Not just that we have a population, where even every single person’s act can have a positive change on our planet, but that our roots lie in worshipping nature: Pancha Mahabhuta. Let’s worship nature by respecting it
