- SDG 14 is ‘Life Below Water :Plastic pollution. Increasing levels of debris in the world’s oceans are having a major environmental and economic impact. Marine debris impacts biodiversity through entanglement or ingestion
- SDG 14 is ‘Life Below Water :Coastal waters are deteriorating due to pollution and eutrophication. Without concerted efforts, coastal eutrophication is expected to increase in 20 percent of large marine ecosystems by 2050.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Ocean acidification has increased significantly in recent decades. Open Ocean sites show current levels of acidity have increased by 26 per cent since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Oceans absorb about 30 per cent of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Oceans provide key natural resources including food, medicines, biofuels and other products. They help with the breakdown and removal of waste and pollution, and their coastal ecosystems act as buf
Project 84: Need Of The Hour
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Each week United Kingdom witnesses tragic death of approximately 84 men, the arguably saddest part being the definition of tragic here: Suicide.
Campaign Against Living Miserably(CALM), a well acknowledged help service portal, formed in 2006 works exclusively to bring down the appalling suicide rate among men in the United Kingdom with its free, confidential and anonymous web chat and help line service for men who are experiencing mental illness, depression or crises. According to the reports by CALM, suicide is the biggest killer of men in Britain, younger than 45 years of age. To arouse much required attention over the sensitive yet unexplored issue of Male suicide in UK, CALM joined forces with American artist Mark Jenkins and his collaborator Sandra Fernandez to initiate Project 84.
A leisurely walk along London’s South Bank on the 26th of March ’18 could appear drastically and dramatically eerie for the everyday man as the head quarter building of ITV has been elected to provide an awareness sight like no other. 84 statues of men have been atop the roofs of its buildings with each figure representing body of a real British man,owing his life lost to suicide. The explicit method of propagation for enlightening the horrid issue of suicide has been met with both praise and criticism alike by the media and the citizens. Some have labelled the act as insensitive and disturbing while others thought of it as a splendid solution to initiate public involving’s in matters of such immediate mass attention. Whatever one may perceive this gimmick to be, the elevation of life less sculptures have instigated global debate on this very issue, giving the underlining tone of depression and mental health its much-essential consciousness in this aggressive and ruthless abode of survival.
Project 84 has brought to light the poignant issue of raising mental health issues for men and has got the worried talking. CALM released a report revealing the death of 2 men every hour in UK by suicide. However, this very awareness campaign has insinuated at the abhorrent envelop of silence with which the issue has been dealt with since eons. Silence not only embraced by those who have been the unfortunate victims, but also those who are struggling with it and most significantly, the common man, we the people; blatantly ignorant and dumb to the perils of the existent rope of suicide, this attempt has made the world talking about mental awareness for the greater good of humanity.
The lives lost cannot be revived, but what can be brought back is the spirit and zest of those who are already lost in the sea of gloom and depression. As a nation or owing to our bigger humanistic responsibility towards the fellow beings, we need to pledge to protect the family of our ultimate habitat because suicide in no possible reasoning can be justified by anyone alike.
A life lost to suicide is life wasted.
Radhika Kohli