“Human being, as a cultural creature, is considered more important than any other living creature because of their ability to conquer the environment”, says President Maithripala Sirisena.

“Although, the mankind forced to make changes in the environment to a certain extent to build essential things for survival of them such as houses and roads, the natural disasters occur from time to time emphasize the human beings regarding their boundaries that they should know while dealing with the environment”, he stated in his message issued for the World Environment Day.

Following is the full text of the message of the President;

Human being, as a cultural creature, is considered more important than any other living creature because of their ability to conquer the environment. Although, the mankind forced to make changes in the environment to a certain extent to build essential things for survival of them such as houses and roads, the natural disasters occur from time to time emphasize the human beings regarding their boundaries that they should know while dealing with the environment.

At present, the environment has gone beyond its earlier depiction as a topic of natural beauty and today it is a major topic of the global dialogue the context of the scientific structure.

Discoveries like land degradation due to the global warming, many issues arisen as a result of the climate change, medical science findings about respiratory diseases that carbon emissions can directly cause for these diseases has made this dialogue more pivotal.

All prominent nations in the world have given priority to this vital topic and, approach toward this subject with utmost concern as they have understood the profound truth that humans cannot survive by going against the environment.

Various programmes were launched across the world to mark the World Environment Day with the aim of taking this decisive dialogue to the general public.

I believe, we as a country, step by step becoming the part of the list of the countries of natural disaster risk. Hence, it is essential to understand this message about the environment.

I believe, in this Day of World Environment we can spread the message of environmental dialogue, which compels the humans to be satisfied with a development level that the environment could tolerate, among the Sri Lanka community.