This year World Health Day is working on the theme ‘Our Planet, Our Health’. Nowadays we are fighting many health diseases like heart disease, lung cancer, and asthma. The main fact of this crisis leading to a polluted planet. We need to make the earth livable. World Health Organization (WHO) at first founded on 7th April as a World Health Day in 1948. Every year WHO selects a theme for the betterment of our well-being. This year the theme is focusing on some urgent actions that are compulsory to keep humans and the planet healthy.
Steps that could be taken for a healthy planet and healthy well-being.
Plant Trees
The temperature of the world raising day by day and it is the main cause of floods. This changing behavior of climate will put two billion people at risk of dengue when flooding. Planting more trees could be an escape from this ongoing and upcoming crisis. Planting is one of the major ways to cure global warming and produce clean air for human well-being. The climate crisis is a big issue that conveys health threats to humanity. Air pollution kills 13 people every minute causing diseases like lung cancer, heart strokes, and heart disease.
Prevent Water Pollution
Every year around 839000 people die from diarrhea. On the other hand, about two billion people are suffering from a lack of safe drinking water. Modern life is destroying our natural flow of healthy drinking water by throwing garbage in the water. The bottom of the deepest ocean there is full of plastic and garbage. That is affecting the highest mountains which are related to our safe water chain as well as the food chain.
Take Smart decisions
By taking smart decisions we could help to regenerate our healthy planet. Burning fossil fuels create polluted air and over 90% of people breathe this unhealthy air. Avoiding these elements could be another way of keeping the world healthy. Excess uses of vehicles and commercial factories produce polluted air. Social leaders are playing a blind role in this topic. Political leaders must make some laws about this topic that how factories are run without polluting the environment.
Our economy is always focusing on money-making profit and in this process, we are losing our safe water, clean air, and safe food. Modern lives are caged by a polluted world and we are the predator of our own good health.