Making Earth A Better Place to Live
The concern is being often reiterated at various fora that one cannot lead
a quality life in metropolitan cities, as the availability of safe basic needs
is being increasingly inaccessible to most people. Drinking water, pure
air and sanitation continue to be the major challenges for planners and
administrators of all cities.
The reasons for the unpleasant situation are multifarious: exponential
growth in cities and urban conglomerations, limited water and power
resources and lack of long-term planning. The problem is universal in
nature, and most countries are afflicted with the issue of ecological imbalance,
draining away the gains of development process everywhere.
It’s with this in mind that the UN General Assembly in 1972 called the
nations to observe the World Environment Day every year on 5 June, the
theme for 2010 being, “Biodiversity - Ecosystems Management and the
Green Economy.” The Day exhorts calls everyone to protect the earth,
the flora and fauna and to make up for the degradation caused to natural
resources by the men’s short-sightedness and ignorance. All the people,
government and non-government authorities, societies and young
groups, commerce and trade, the media and other organisations will
conduct social activities to renovate their commitments to protect the
environment and society.
Concerned with the issue, TNAI in its Position Statement in para on
Safeguarding Environment overtly lays, “The Nurses have an important
role to play in activities related to environmental sanitation, clean water
food safety, food production and energy sources, population control and
safety in work place.” It further enlists several activities that Nurses can
undertake. TNAI recommits to stand to contribute, its own ways, to making
this world a better place to live than we have inherited.
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