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The term can be translated to English as "What a waste!" [1] [2] or the old saying, "Waste not, want not." [3] Japanese environmentalists have used the term to encourage people to "reduce, reuse and recycle". Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has used the term at the United Nations as a slogan to promote environmental protection. [2]
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible.
Somerset: Old English: Sumorsaete ealle (All the people of Somerset) Staffordshire: The knot unites; Suffolk: Opus Nostrum Dirige (Direct our work) Surrey: Sussex: We wunt be druv (Sussaxon dialect: We won't be driven) Warwickshire: United to serve; Westmorland: Yorkshire, East Riding: Tradition and Progress; Yorkshire, North Riding:
Decisive and exemplary contribution to the protection and preservation of our environment now and in the future [62] Germany: GreenTec Awards: VKP engineering GmbH: Projects, products, and people contributing to the protection of the environment [63] Germany: Nuclear-Free Future Award: Franz Moll Foundation for the Coming Generations
Environmental protection, or environment protection, is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments. [1] Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where it is possible, to repair damage and reverse trends.
World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (5–16 June 1972), that had resulted from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. One year later, in 1973, the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth".
Safe Planet Campaign logo. Safe Planet: the United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes is the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Food and Agricultural Organization-led global public awareness and outreach campaign for ensuring the safety of human health and the environment against hazardous chemicals and wastes.