Earth Day is a celebration held every April 22 to commemorate modern man's efforts to preserve, protect, and conserve his environment. According to Hamilton (2020), the annual event was launched in 1970 to celebrate the creation of an environmental movement that advocates for all members of the general public to embrace environmental conservation, protection, and preservation by avoiding activities, such as air, water, and land pollution. Therefore, the world celebrates this day to recognize our different efforts to look after our planet by reducing human activities that adversely affect the Earth and its ability to sustain life in the future, such as pollution. Earth Day appreciates our efforts to conserve, protect, and preserve our globe by checking on human activities likely to make it inhabitable in the future, such as increased pollution.
John McConnell, a peace activist, is globally renowned for his advocacy for creating a day in the calendar year that honors the Earth during a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conference of 1969 in the United States of America. McConnell proposed the 21st of every March as Earth Day because it was the first day of the Northern Hemisphere spring (Earth Day, 2021). Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested the 22nd of every April as a day in the United States of America to discuss issues relating to the environment, such as pollution (Hamilton, 2020).
However, Denis Hayes is credited for his role in the globalization of Earth Day. Using funding from well-wisher organizations, such as United Auto Workers, he coordinated his team to initiate a mass action advocating environmental protection, preservation, and conservation in the United States of America (Anderson, 2020). Notably, the movement became global in 1990, conducting its events in over 140 countries (Anderson, 2020). Over 190 world nations are currently supporting the ideologies of the founders of Earth Day (Anderson, 2020).
The Earth Day annual celebrations champion environmental protection, conservation, and preservation (Anderson, 2020). In other words, the day recognizes the efforts made to ensure that natural resources, such as forests, soil, coal, minerals, metals, and oil, are conserved and preserved, protecting them from misuse and overexploitation (Hurley, 2020). This will ensure that these natural resources sustain us and reach the succeeding generations (Hurley, 2020). Therefore, Earth Day ensures that our environment, including natural resources, is protected from depletion, ensuring that they sustain the next generations.
Besides, we can partake in its celebrations by embracing its objectives of protecting, preserving, and conserving our environments, including natural resources. For instance, we can recognize the holiday by checking on increased pollution and avoiding overexploiting natural resources, such as trees, minerals, coal, oil, and gas. As a result, all society members will be sensitized to the importance of conserving, protecting, and preserving our environments by avoiding activities such as pollution and overexploitation of natural resources. Therefore, the involvement of all society members to oppose pollution and overexploitation of natural resources will ensure the realization of the objectives of its founders.
In conclusion, Earth Day is celebrated every April 22 to commemorate the different steps made to advocate for environmental protection, preservation, and conservation. Its primary goal involves ensuring that all community members preserve, protect, and conserve the environment by reducing pollution and overexploitation of natural resources. Earth Day appreciates our efforts to conserve, protect, and preserve our globe by checking on human activities likely to make it inhabitable in the future, such as increased pollution
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