When is World Environment Day?

Indian politician and public figure Mahatma Gandhi said that our world will be enough to fully meet all human needs, but it is too little to satiate human greed. His words most fully convey the attitude of man to the environment that has developed with the advent of technology and industry in our lives. After people began to realize that the resource of nature is far from eternal and that by our actions we are digging a hole for our own descendants, there was a need to protect this very environment.

The United Nations has decided in its own way to draw people's attention to the problems of natural pollution and the destruction of resources. To this end, the date of June 5 became known as the World Environment Day. The date was chosen not by chance. It was on June 5 in 1972 that the Stockholm Conference began on the problems of the protection of natural resources. This forum developed the basic concept of the development of mankind, to which the UN has been guided to this day.

For the first time, the Day of Environmental Protection was proclaimed at the 27th session, held by the UN General Assembly. It happened on December 15, 1972, and the aim was to draw the attention of the world community to the problems of environmental pollution by anthropogenic factors, the cruel treatment of animals, the extermination of numerous living species that were on the verge of extinction, and other problems that arose through the fault of man and lead to Destruction of the planet's natural resources.

The celebration of such an event as the Day of Environmental Protection is designed for the fact that every person on Earth will be imbued with the problems of nature protection organizations and will wish to participate and contribute to activities aimed at improving the environmental situation throughout the world. Therefore, on June 5, various rallies, concerts, parades of bicyclists and other events of activists of the "green" movement and just people and organizations not indifferent to the problems of nature protection are held around the world on UN requirements.

Every year, for the celebration of such a occasion as the Day of Environmental Protection, the UN leadership coordinates the themes of these events, one for all peoples in the world. This practice has been carried out since 1974, when the first theme of the holiday "Only One Earth" was put forward, and events corresponding to this theme were organized. But the Day of Environmental Protection 2013 is already focused on a less global concept.

The name of the holiday of protection of nature this year sounded like "Think, Eat, Save" and was devoted to such important problems as conscious consumption, which seek to turn the attention of people environmentalists and economists, as well as the problems of hunger on the planet, which, despite all Our high-tech civilization is still relevant in many countries of the world, which are just beginning their development.

In general, such a holiday - the Day of Environmental Protection - is needed for our planet now more than ever. After all, if we do not start taking measures to change the global ecological situation, after several generations our descendants will lose the opportunity to enjoy many incarnations of the beauty of nature on the planet Earth.