Earth Day is commemorated annually on 22 April, marks the anniversary of the birth of a change in environmental awareness movement in the 1970s. Born of Earth Day was initiated by a United States senator, Gaylord Nelson. At that time he was a national protest against the political circles related to environmental problems. He urged that these issues be included in the national agenda.
Gaylord Nelson struggle started around more than 7 years before the first Earth Day. Gaylord initially hoped his thinking is achieved through visits by President Kennedy to the 11 states in September 1963, but for some reason the visit was not able to bring environmental issues into the national agenda. Efforts continue to be Gaylord to realize his idea. After a tour of Kennedy, Gaylord conduct his own campaign to several states. Across the country, evidence of environmental degradation occurs everywhere. Everyone knew, except the political circles.
Finally in the summer of 1969 Gaylord know that the action of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations have spread widely through universities across the country. From there he got the idea to do the same thing in the campaign environment. He chose the lower ranks in protesting against environmental damage. At a conference in Seattle September 1969, Gaylord announced it would hold nationwide demonstrations in the spring of 1970 on behalf of the environment and everyone is invited to participate. After that, various letters, telegrams, and telephone flowing from around the country. Americans finally find a forum to express its concern over decline in soil quality, rivers, lakes, and air in their environment. On 30 November 1969 New York Times reported the increase in environmental awareness activities throughout the country especially on college campuses and one day for the memorial center is designed for environmental issues for the coming spring, which was coordinated by Senator Gaylord Nelson. This is a proof of the success of the struggle of Gaylord Nelson in promoting environmental issues as a national agenda.
On April 22, 1970, eventually about 20 million Americans took to the streets and meet the numerous parks and auditoriums to campaign for health and environmental sustainability. Thousands of students gathered against environmental damage. The groups have long opposed the presence of oil spills in the environment, factories and power plants causes pollution, poor sewerage, disposal of hazardous materials, pesticides, highways, loss of wilderness, wildlife extinction and also increasingly aware of togetherness for their struggle from the public.
Earth Day in 1970 has resulted in political circles that real unity is rare, coming from the republican and democrat, and a variety of mixing among others. The first Earth Day to the early formation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency / US EPA (a U.S. environmental protection agency) and also as a first step toward the environment with clean air and water, and protection of living things.
In 1990, Earth Day began to develop a global basis. Approximately 200 million people from 141 countries around the world moved to raise the issue of the environment on a global scale. Earth Day in 1990 became the starting point for implementation of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Earth Day 2000 received help with the internet to connect activists around the world. On April 22, around 5000 environmental groups around the world to embrace hundreds of millions of people in 184 countries that became new record for Earth Day which is celebrated on 22 April every year marks the anniversary of the birth of a change in awareness of the environment movement in 1970. Earth Day was born on the initiative of a United States senator, Gaylord Nelson. At that time he was a national protest against the political circles related to environmental problems. He urged that these issues be included in the national agenda.
Gaylord Nelson struggle started around more than 7 years before the first Earth Day. Gaylord hopes his ideas initially achieved through visits by President Kennedy to eleven states in September 1963, but for some reason the visit was not able to bring environmental issues into the national agenda. Efforts continue to be Gaylord to realize his idea. After a tour of Kennedy, Gaylord conduct his own campaign to several states. Across the country, evidence of environmental degradation occurs everywhere. Everyone knew, except the political circles.
Finally in the summer of 1969 Gaylord know that anti-war demonstrations Vietnam has spread widely through universities across the country. From there he got the idea to do the same thing in the campaign environment. He chose the lower ranks in protesting against environmental damage. At a conference in Seattle September 1969, Gaylord announced it would hold nationwide demonstrations in the spring of 1970 on behalf of the environment and everyone is invited to participate. After that, various letters, telegrams, and telephone flowing from around the country. Americans finally find a forum to express its concern over decline in soil quality, rivers, lakes, and air in their environment. On 30 November 1969 New York Times reported the increase in environmental awareness activities throughout the country especially on college campuses and one day for the memorial center is designed for environmental issues for the coming spring, which was coordinated by Senator Gaylord Nelson. This is a proof of the success of the struggle of Gaylord Nelson in promoting environmental issues as a national agenda.
On April 22, 1970, eventually about 20 million Americans took to the streets and meet the numerous parks and auditoriums to campaign for health and environmental sustainability. Thousands of students gathered against environmental damage. The groups have long opposed the presence of oil spills in the environment, factories and power plants causes pollution, poor sewerage, disposal of hazardous materials, pesticides, highways, loss of wilderness, wildlife extinction and also increasingly aware of togetherness for their struggle from the public.
Earth Day in 1970 has resulted in political circles that real unity is rare, coming from the republican and democrat, and a variety of mixing among others. The first Earth Day to the early formation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency / US EPA (a U.S. environmental protection agency) and also as a first step toward the environment with clean air and water, and protection of living things.
In 1990, Earth Day began to develop a global basis. Approximately 200 million people from 141 countries around the world moved to raise the issue of the environment on a global scale. Earth Day in 1990 became the starting point for implementation of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Earth Day 2000 received help with the internet to connect activists around the world. On April 22, around 5000 environmental groups around the world to embrace hundreds of millions of people in 184 countries to a new record to campaign on Earth Day. Various activities carried out vary from drum chain from village to village in Gabon, Africa to the hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall, Washington DC, United States. Earth Day 2000 is called the message loudly and clearly that the population of the world wants a quick and decisive action for the use of clean energy and environmentally friendly.
In the year 2008, in order commemorate Earth Day, no matter if the people in this world must be "polite" to nature, could also be survival of mankind depend on "modesty" in our nature, we should be able to read and understand the cues . Global warming and food scarcity is one of the cues for humans so that we are "polite" to the outdoors, caring for the earth by way of giving "nutrition" on earth is one example.
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