Gautam Gambhir wants people to realize the importance of the environment

As the human race is evolving and advancing we’re extensively damaging the environment. From the air, we breathe into the oceans and the aquatic life all the various factors are degrading rapidly. Thus to create awareness and promote measures to preserve the environment the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was devised and June 5 is marked as World Environment Day.

They work on a different theme each year to draw attention towards various aspects and the theme of the year is “Beat Plastic Pollution”. Plastic usage and disposal is still a major concern and there seems to be no immediate solution to this problem. UNEP had recently tied up with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to make the cricket played in the country green.

To explain the matter in cricketing terms UNEP website states “In the time it takes Hardik Pandya to bowl an over in a cricket match, four garbage trucks worth of plastic get dumped into the ocean.”

Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir who focuses a lot on matters that affect common citizens and are of general importance for the masses posted a message on Environment Day. He thinks that it should be renamed to World Survival Day as that’s how people will realize how crucial is this juncture and understand the gravity of the situation. If we keep ignoring these aspects it can soon become a huge problem that directly hampers the humankind.

While there are efforts to find life on other planets and to colonize Mars there is a need to treat our primary planet Earth better or we will face the wrath.

GG’s concern

Gambhir in his message used the example of Shimla water crisis to show how there is a direct effect and immediate that we can see.

“I think instead of #WorldEnvironmentDay let’s rename it as #WorldSurvivalDay. Maybe then we’ll realise we are on the brink of our carelessness & greed-infused disasters. Just look at water crisis in Shimla,” Gambhir wrote.

I think instead of #WorldEnvironmentDay let’s rename it as #WorldSurvivalDay. May be then we’ll realise we are on the brink of our carelessness & greed-infused disasters. Just look at water crisis in Shimla.

— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) June 5, 2018

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