Humans must know their boundaries when dealing with environment: President
The human being, as a cultural creature, is considered more important than any other living creature because of their ability to conquer the environment, President Maithripala Sirisena said.
“Although, the mankind was forced to make changes in the environment to a certain extent to build essential things for survival of them such as houses and roads, the natural disasters which occur from time to time, emphasise to the human beings regarding their boundaries that they should know while dealing with the environment,” he stated in a message to mark World Environment Day.
Following is the full text of the message of the President:
“Human being, as a cultural creature, is considered more important than any other living creature because of their ability to conquer the environment. Although, the mankind forced to make changes in the environment to a certain extent to build essential things for survival of them such as houses and roads, the natural disasters occur from time to time emphasize the human beings regarding their boundaries that they should know while dealing with the environment.
At present, the environment has gone beyond its earlier depiction as a topic of natural beauty and today it is a major topic of the global dialogue the context of the scientific structure.
Discoveries like land degradation due to the global warming, many issues arisen as a result of the climate change, medical science findings about respiratory diseases that carbon emissions can directly cause for these diseases has made this dialogue more pivotal.
All prominent nations have given priority to this vital topic and, approach toward this subject with utmost concern as they have understood the profound truth that humans cannot survive by going against the environment.
Various programmes were launched across the world to mark World Environment Day with the aim of taking this decisive dialogue to the public.
I believe, we as a country, step by step becoming the part of the list of the countries of natural disaster risk. Hence, it is essential to understand this message about the environment.
I believe, in this Day of World Environment we can spread the message of environmental dialogue, which compels the humans to be satisfied with a development level that the environment could tolerate, among the Sri Lanka community.”
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Don’t neglect nature: PM
It is a tragedy that people who are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their religion, tend to neglect nature, which is the spirit of all these religions, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe states in an Environment Day message.
The Prime Minister also noted that it is insensitive to refrain from taking measures to protect the environment, while knowing that environmental annihilation leads to the extinction of human beings.
The theme of this year’s environment day celebrations is ‘Seven Billion Population – One Planet – Lets Handle Carefully.’ Nature has gifted most essential resources for the human being. Extreme greed leads humans to exploit natural resources and this situation has led to the extinction of nature and human being, he said.
The Prime Minister said the theme of this year’s environment day has emphasised the importance of protecting nature for the betterment of all.
“Through the positive changes of lifestyles such as economising on water and electricity consumption, minimising the usage of polythene and the usage of alternative sources, reforestation, proper garbage disposal practices, we can contribute for the protection of nature,” Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said.
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Source : 06/06/2016 Daily News ( Sri Lanka ) http://dailynews.lk/?q=2016/06/06/local/83759 and www.manthri.lk
