Climate change, pollution, deforestation, oceanic dead zones, over-fishing, over-population, loss of biodiversity, biological terrorism and many more. Our planet is facing many threats today, and the only thing we can do it is not to forget that this planet is ours and we are the only ones who can save it.
Today is Earth Day, which is celebrated each year on 22nd of April. It is a global act to demonstrate support for environmental protection. "The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda." (source: http://www.earthday.org/about/the-history-of-earth-day/) Today's Earth Day motivates to stand up against global warming and also is focused on clean water issue.
Earth Day 2017's campaign is "Environmental and Climate Literacy". With their partners they aim to raise awareness and through Teach-In toolkit they focus on education. In order to raise a generation who is a global citizen and aware of the threat of climate change.
According to recent Gallup polls, 42 percent of Americans believe that the dangers of climate change are exaggerated, and less than half say that protection of the environment should be given priority over energy production. But we all should be aware of the fact that environmental issues are nothing to be ignored.
Earth Day had reached into its current status as the largest secular observance in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people every year, and a day of action that changes human behavior and provokes policy changes.
