Our everyday activities as humans are so significant that they affect the world’s environment, atmosphere, landscape, ecology and climate on a global, and often disruptive scale. Dr Lize Barclay, senior Lecturer in Systems Thinking and Futures Studies, Stellenbosch Business School, says all of us play a role in how we impact the environment.
Revolutionizing the Digital Landscape: Our CEO’s Vision for Unlimited Web Hosting…Our everyday activities as humans are so significant that they affect the world’s environment, atmosphere, landscape, ecology and climate on a global, and often disruptive scale.
The slogan for World Environment Day 2024 is: “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration”. Originated 1973 it has been organised by the United Nations annually to motivate the world to consider the impact of human activities on the environment. “Land restoration is one of the key pillars of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration which has been established to mobilise the world to protect and revive our ecosystems and take decisive steps in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. The campaign acknowledges that we are unable to turn back time and prevent the damage that has been done, but we could attempt to restore the soil and revive water sources.
“The world has seen success stories of land being restored, deserts being rehabilitated and soil being enriched: in Africa, the late Wangari Maathai from Kenya founded the Green Belt Movement and motivated Kenyans, especially women, to plant more than 30 million trees,” comments Dr Barclay.
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