Earth day 2022

What Is It?

• Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22 as a reminder and support for Environmental protection.

• On this day, people all across the world come together to perform distinguished activities like cleaning drives, plantation drives, energy conservation, etc. to project their contribution to the mother Earth.

• It also marks the anniversary of the birth of a modern Environmental movement in 1970.

ORIGIN

• Before Earth Day was initiated, America led a highly polluted lifestyle. The industries had no restrictions on the smoke emitted, the automobiles weren't bothered to be pollution-checked. The issue of Environmental concerns hadn't been addressed.

• However,it was enlightened when Rachel Carson's ' Silent Spring ' was published in 1962. It gathered a lot of attention and sold almost more than 5 million copies in more than 24 countries.

• It raised a lot of thoughts and concerns in people's minds. It made them aware of our actions leading to environmental hazards and its consequences for them and also the upcoming generations.

The First Earth Day

• Senator Nelson was one of the many concerned citizens for the environment deterioration in the US.

• In January 1969, he witnessed a massive oil spill in California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he wanted to infuse the energy of student anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution and announced the idea for a teach-in on college campuses to the national media.

• Denis Hayes, a young activist, was recruited to organize the campus teach-ins and they choose April 22, a weekday falling between Spring Break and Final Exams, to maximize the greatest student participation.

• Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land and the word was spread and joined by numerous organisations and groups.

• They changed the name to Earth Day, which immediately sparked national media attention. Earth Day inspired 20 million Americans to take to the streets to demonstrate against the impacts of ages of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts.

• Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment through rallies and drives.

• The Earth united all and Earth Day 1970 achieved a political consensus, reaching to the formation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of other first of their kind environmental laws, including the National Environmental Education Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air Act and numerous others in the following years.

How You Can Celebrate

• Go Car free- walk or ride a bicycle to the nearby areas.

• Grow new plants and nurture them with all the love!

• Make positive promises to yourself to keep our Earth healthy.

• Conserve energy! Turn off the lights when not necessary.

• Follow the 3Rs.

• Do not waste water.

• Go out for a walk, breathe and absorb the beauty and spirit of the nature.