What is Earth Day for?

What does Earth Day mean? What does Earth Day do?

Earth Day is a festival specially set up for world environmental protection, aiming at raising people's awareness of existing environmental problems, mobilizing people to participate in environmental protection movements, and improving the overall environment of the earth through a green and low-carbon life. The festival time is April 22nd every year.

Earth Day was initiated by Gaylord Nelson and dennis hayes in 1970. Today, the celebration of Earth Day has developed to 192 countries around the world, and more than 10 billion people participate in it every year, making it the largest folk environmental protection festival in the world.

Origin:

During the period of 1969, Gaylord Nelson, a senator from the Democratic Party of the United States, gave speeches at American universities, and planned to organize a campus movement with the theme of opposing the Vietnam War on April 22nd of the following year. However, at the preparatory meeting held in Seattle during 1969, one of the organizers, dennis hayes, a student of Harvard Law School, proposed to position the movement as a grassroots movement with the theme of national environmental protection.

1969, Gaylord Nelson proposed to hold a lecture on environmental protection on the campuses of universities all over the country. After hearing this suggestion, Hayes envisaged holding a lecture on environmental protection in Cambridge. So he went to Washington, D.C. and met Nelson. Young Hayes told his thoughts and Nelson was overjoyed. He immediately expressed his willingness to hire Hayes, and even encouraged him to suspend his studies and concentrate on environmental protection. Therefore, Hayes resolutely went through the suspension procedures. Soon, he expanded Nelson's ideas and began large-scale community activities all over the United States.

He chose1Wednesday, April 22nd, 970 as the first "Earth Day". On April 22 of that year, about 20 million people in the United States took part in demonstrations and speeches.

America 1970 was an eventful year, and optical fiber fabrics were invented. The "Apollo 13" tragedy caused the moon landing plan to fail, and a nuclear power plant near savannah river, South Carolina leaked. At that time, Americans breathed lead-containing exhaust gas from luxury cars all day. Factories discharge smoke and sewage unscrupulously, but they never worry about being sued or condemned by public opinion. "Environmentalists" are rare. They are just words listed in the dictionary, but they are rarely taken seriously. It is against this background that the first "Earth Day" was a great success. In view of public concern about environmental protection, the US Congress adjourned on Earth Day, and nearly 40 members of the Senate and House of Representatives spoke at local gatherings respectively. American celebrities such as Lent Dubes, paul ehrlich, and ralph nader spoke in succession to clarify the significance of the rally. 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., and more than 654.38 million people marched on Fifth Avenue in new york City to support this activity.

According to statistics, on this day, more than 20 million people, 1000 primary and secondary schools, 2,000 colleges and universities, 2,000 communities and major groups in the United States participated in the "Earth Day" activities. People hold rallies, parades and other forms of publicity activities, holding highly polluted earth models, huge paintings and charts, shouting slogans and demanding that the government take measures to protect the environment. 1970 The first "Earth Day" was a huge event, which was one of the signs of the birth of modern environmental protection movement in the United States, and finally promoted the establishment of the United States Environment Agency and the formation of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Act.

What can we do to protect the environment?

Protect the forest. Actively contribute to people's afforestation and stop people from deforestation. Don't waste paper. If necessary, you can use paper on both sides.

Reduce the use of plastic products. Reduce white pollution on the earth and refuse to use disposable foam boxes.

Save water. Cherish every drop of water and let it play its real role. Better use more water. You can water the flowers with vegetable washing water or flush the toilet.

China is a country short of water. In our daily life, as long as we twist the tap, water will flow out continuously, and we may not feel the water crisis at all. But in fact, the water on which we live is becoming more and more scarce. At present, more than 1 100 million people in the world do not use clean water, so 3 1 100 thousand people die every year because of drinking unclean water.

Save electricity, reduce power consumption, improve user's power utilization rate and reduce power supply network loss under the condition of meeting the necessary conditions of production and life.

Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility. People can start from every little thing around them, such as riding a bike, saving paper and water, which are all measures that must be taken to protect the environment. Protecting the environment depends on everyone, and everyone should have the awareness of protecting the environment, so as to give full play to everyone's strength and protect the environment.

Slogan:

1, enter the "low" era together: be a man and keep a low profile; Speak in a low voice; If you are wrong, bow your head; Life should be low carbon. On Earth Day, let's bow our heads, pray for the earth and bless each other.

2, but save an inch of land for future generations.

3. Strengthen the legal system and protect resources and environment.

Archimedes said, Give me a fulcrum, and I can move the earth. I said, give me a fulcrum, and I can move the universe. Today is Earth Day. The earth is the fulcrum on which we live. If we lose it, we will lose everything.

5, 4.22 World Earth Day, eat whole grains, wear natural cloth, live in energy-saving houses, travel without cars, and be frugal. Don't ask too much from nature, let's celebrate the life of the earth with awe and gratitude.

6. Life is full of low carbon, environmental protection is always remembered, resources are rationally developed and cherished, sustainable development and happiness last forever. Today is Earth Day. We only have one earth. Protecting the earth is our common responsibility!

7. The earth is our only home.

On Earth Day, Nu Wa asked the Jade Emperor to resign on the grounds that the hole in the ozone layer was expanding. She donated all her beloved colored stones to mend the sky. To make matters worse, people not only don't understand, but also say who asked you to be a coolie?

9. On Earth Day, a low-carbon life March is played, with the blue sky as the score, the green trees as the notes and the clear water as the strings, playing the strongest sound of environmental protection and praying for the safety of Mother Earth. You and I hand in hand, low-carbon home protection.

10, protect geological landscape and cherish geological relics.