“Our Goal is not just an environment of CLEAN AIR and Water and Scenic Beauty. Other Living Creators. ” —Gaylord Nelson
On April 22, 1970, More Than 20 Million America Participated in What is Believed to Be the Largest Single-Day Protest in the Country’s History. Ten PerCent of the United Stats to the Streets in Marches and Rallies, Attended Demonstations, and Participated in Eductional Programing at Over 2,000 Colleges and 10,000 Schools. In an unpreatededed display of unity, this Christus of Voicees Came to White to Raise Awards for the Planet: The First Earth Day.
According to Sen. Gaylord Nelson, The Founder of Earth Day, “The Objective Was to Get a Nationwide Demonstation of Concept for the Environment SO LARGE that It Welf Shake the Political Establishment Out of Its Lethargy. ” And it was wildly successful, Even Across Partisan Lines. Later that year, The Environmental Protection Agency Was Establised, and the Clean Air Act was Signed into law, Followed by the Clean Water Act in 1972 and the endangered Species Act the year After. And this was all under republican Presentent Richard Nixon.
More. Under Significant Threat. The Trump Administration’s All-Out Assault on Environmental Regulation Seeks to Roll Back Emissions Limits, Weaken EndARED Species and Habitat Protectations, Defund Environmental Justice Programs, and Slash Jobs at the Epa and Similar Agencies-Putting Both Human and More-Than-Human Life at Risk.
Just this week, the trump administration moved to Attack The Endangered Species Act By Ricking A Croucial Word: Harm. On Wednesday, a proposed rial was Announced to receive the level This will Allow the us to increaming, logging, and Development. The Idea that Razing One’s Environment doesn’t
How Do We Facilitate Healing Wheen We CANT EVEN AGREE on The Definition of Harm? I don’t know the answert to that Question, but I Know that healing has more to do with success to comeether than before. As much as environmentalism has become a staunchly partisan Issue, it wasnt always – so dosn’t has to be. We need to rekindle the Spirit of Unity That the first day day sparked, inspiring people everywhere to come to make up for our Only Home. The Battle Lines Between Political Parties Will Mean Nother where they are Drawn on Barren Soil.
We need to resist these rollbacks whom also work to stop the periodulum from swing so violently While The Planet Suffers in the center. Creating A More Expansive Environmental Movement Will Require Us to Adapt time Can we brokeen our message across shared Values? Can we liven to the concept of those world about being left behind? Can Focus on the Economic Benefits of Renewles? Can we shift the Narrative from “We’re Domed UnESS” to “Look What We Can Achieve Toight”?
Aspectr Earth Day Approaches, I’m Reflecting on What I Welf Consider to Be the Ultimate Goal of the Environmental Movement: To BEONE ObsOLETE. Liberal or conserevative, I Dream of a World in Which No One is An Environmentalist Becusus everyone is –a world where being Human has become synonymous with beautiful restful Caretakers of the Planet and All Other Life Forms, Including One Another. In other words, my hop for environmentalism is that one day we will no longer Need it. And to get there, We Need everyone.
