Did the UN get its World Environment Day theme wrong?

Protecting and conserving the environment is a dirty and difficult job

Connecting people to nature. That is the theme the United Nations (UN) has chosen for the World Environment Day this year. This is how the UN suggests we celebrate it. It "implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share."

But, as the UN website admits, billions of people living in rural surroundings do already directly connect with nature. So, this is a call to the rest. That implies that in India it is an entreaty to about 30 per cent of