Sunday 21 April 2013

TOMORROW IS WORLD EARTH DAY..TAKE AN ACTION






Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is observed on April 22 each year.
The April 22 date was designated as International Mother Earth Day by a consensus resolution adopted by the United Nations in 2009. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network , and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.  

Earth Day is an extraordinary event. It combines the functions of educator, movement builder and the largest public service project in the world. More than one billion people from almost every single country on earth will take an action in service to our planet.
Hands down, Earth Day is the largest secular event in the world -- and more people join in every year. Men, women and children will haul garbage, clean up coral reefs and mountain trails, show movies, sign petitions, march to solve the climate crises, hold town hall meetings to plan a better future, and rally to save the great apes, dwindling tigers, embattled elephants and other threatened species. More than 100 million schoolchildren around the world will learn about the importance of clean air and water; thousands of federal, state, and local governments will issue reports about their environmental achievements and records and make pledges to improve their environmental performance and invest in green technology; and tens of thousands of clergy members will give sermons about the importance of protecting God's creation.
Much is being written these days about the first Earth Day and the need to replicate the power of April 22 1970, when 20 million people in the U.S. took to the streets to protest the ravages of the industrial revolution, followed quickly by landmark environmental laws and regulations, and accompanied by a shift in political fortunes of those who stood in the way of the environmental movement.
But the real key to a new environmental movement resides with the same sorts of people who took to the streets in 1970, the same sorts of people who pitch in each Earth Day, people with a vested interest in protecting the earth for themselves and their children. In short, everybody. The ground troops for the new environmental movement are there - in the one billion people working this Earth Day in a community near you.

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