So on the eve of it, we will now re-run the one we posted -- at a half century on.
. . .It has been [a half century] since that first Earth Day in New York City -- and Philly, New Orleans. . . and Boulder. It certainly doesn't seem a half-century ago -- but it now is.
To be sure, the work attached to the movement has never been more vital -- more urgent. We all share this fragile orb — and we are all responsible for how we pass it on, to our children, and theirs. So join with the kiddos. . . here:
. . . .Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire.
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet.
The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement, and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event. . . .
Now you know. Do something, even from home -- to move the agenda forward, in your sphere of influence. Please. It will help our fragile, beautiful blue sphere, immeasurably.
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