World Environment Day: A planet to live for
Declarations of climate emergency had reached a crescendo, when the pandemic brought us all to a standstill. In the abrupt quiet, we heard the birdsong, and signs that a lesser human footprint could help the environment regenerate itself. But it can't be at the improbable cost of shutting down an intricate machinery of economies and human endeavour. On occasion of the World Environment Day, what then do we hope for this living planet to be?
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Migrant labourers rest during the pandemic lockdown in Lucknow, India. April 22, 2020
When people from villages migrate, compounded not only by lack of economic opportunities, but the underlying environmental stresses that displace people, only to reach the limits of adaptation, with overcrowded cities being unable to take in more migrants—a reality that has now gripped our unliveable cities—we will have reached a full circle, mistaking an end for a beginning
Data Sources: UN Population Division, Centre for Science and Environment, IPCC special
