Earth Day 2022: Theme, history, significance and all you need to know
Every year on April 22, we celebrate our mother earth with 'World Earth Day, which marks the anniversary of the Modern Environmental Movement, which started in 1970. World Earth Day is a reminder for mankind to protect and safeguard the mother earth and its species, to make Earth a better place for the coming generations. April 22, 2022, will mark 52 years of Earth Day. Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and provoke policy changes.
HISTORY OF EARTH DAY:
Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet. The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event.
WORLD EARTH DAY 2022: THEME
The Earth Day 2022 theme is ‘Invest In Our Planet’. According to the UN, "Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide at rates unprecedented in human history. It is estimated that around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction".
WORLD EARTH DAY QUOTES:
The earth has music for those who listen -William Shakespeare
When the wells dry, we know the worth of water -Benjamin Franklin
“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” —John Muir
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” —Albert Einstein
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