Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. Here are answers to some common questions about Earth Day…
Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms.
Nelson and others, including activist Denis Hayes, worked to expand the idea beyond college campuses, with events all around the country and came up with the Earth Day name.A history of the movement by EarthDay.org, where Hayes remains board chair emeritus, says the date of the first Earth Day — April 22, 1970 — was chosen because it fell on a weekday between spring break and final exams and the aim was to attract as many students as possible.It's not a federal holiday.
In 2000, Earth Day began taking aim at climate change, a problem that has grown rapidly more urgent in recent years.This year's Earth Day is focused on the threat that plastics pose to our environment, with a call to end all single-use plastic and find replacements for their use so they can quickly be phased down.
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