Why World Environment Day Is More Important Than Ever

World Environment Day marked annually on June 5th is not just a date on the calendar it is a forceful worldwide platform for raising awareness and action towards the care of our planet.

- MUKHTAR AHMAD QURESHI

Founded in 1972 by the United Nations the day has evolved into a pillar of environmental activism reaching out to millions across the globe via education, activism and community programmes. Because we are in 2025 now today's environmental issues are graver more intricate and more perilous than ever before. Climate emergency to deforestation plastic pollution to wildlife extinction the planet is presenting us with messages we cannot afford to ignore anymore. And that is why World Environment Day is more critical than ever since our future as a human race is at stake based on what we do now.

A PLANET IN PERIL, THE DANGERS WITHIN.

The past decades have seen science observations and studies in the actual world describing an awful scenario. Global temperatures are increasing at a frightening pace polar ice caps are melting and sea levels are threatening human coastal settlements. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points out that the world is critically close to crossing the 1.5°C mark after which the fate of life and the environment will become increasingly worse day by day.

Air is poisonous in most urban cities leading to respiratory disease cardiovascular disease and early death. Plastic pollution has not only invaded oceans but also rivers land and even the bloodstream. Biodiversity is declining at a faster rate with an estimated one million species facing extinction says the UN. These are not remote issues though. They are present. They are immediate.