Shouldn't every day be World Earth Day?

I know I am a bit late to the party for World Earth Day with this article, but sometimes life gets in the way.

Despite my tardiness, and given the state of the planet and global warming it does beg the question I asked at the start here:

"Shouldn't everyday be World Earth Day?"

The state of our planet links to a number of the UN Sustainable Development goals in particular, life below water (SDG14), life on land (SDG15), clean water and sanitation (SDG6), affordable and clean energy (SDG7), responsible consumption (SDG12), and sustainable cities (SDG11), all of which are connected with the need for climate change (SDG13).

We all need this work to be done to give us good health and well-being (SDG3) now and to give future generations exactly that – a future.

As the graphic below shows, which I included in my new book ‘Change Your Story’, the statistics for climate change make stark reading.

There is clearly much to be done and I am grateful to the UN for giving me permission to include details from them on all of the 17 SDGs in the appendices of 'Change Your Story'.

Free climate action career ideas download

If you are interested in working in the specific area of climate change, and need some inspiration, then you can download the section for climate related roles using the link in the comments. It contains information on some of the key issues and short overviews of around 30 different roles

I hope it inspires you to take action if you feel called to do so.

My grandchildren and millions of others will be very grateful if you do.