• Earth Day 2023: History, Significance and Theme

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    Earth Day 2023: History, Significance and Theme

    This year's topic is "Invest in Our Planet," with the clear maxim "Everyone Accountable, Everyone accounted for." The theme focuses on encouraging the one billion+ participants in Earth Day events each year to take action in their own neighbourhoods.

    Digital Desk: Every year on April 22, Earth Day is
    honoured. The goal of the day is to increase public awareness of the fast
    increasing levels of pollution, climate change, and other factors that endanger
    the life of our planet.



    The Earth Day website, which coordinates environmental
    movements throughout the world, releases the theme each year. This year's topic
    is "Invest in Our Planet," with the clear maxim "Everyone
    Accountable, Everyone accounted for." The theme focuses on encouraging the
    one billion+ participants in Earth Day events each year to take action in their
    own neighbourhoods. Additionally, it calls for participation by organisations,
    institutions, and governments.



    color:black;letter-spacing:-.25pt">To benefit their companies and society,
    businesses, investors, and the financial industry must use green innovation and
    practises. Governments must advance the common good and lay the groundwork for
    a just and sustainable global economic system. Each citizen must support
    sustainable alternatives as a consumer.



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    color:black;letter-spacing:-.25pt">Senator Gaylord Nelson started Earth Day in
    the 1970s to promote ecology and raise public awareness of environmental
    issues. He was alarmed after witnessing the horror of a major oil spill in
    Santa Barbara, California, in early 1969.



    color:black;letter-spacing:-.25pt">Senator Nelson's desire to combine the
    student anti-war movement with increasing public awareness of air and water
    pollution sprang from his concern about the planet's worsening situation. He
    had proposed training about environmental conservation in colleges. Earth Day
    was gradually established in 1970, thanks to the work of Nelson and activist
    Denis Hayes, and it received widespread coverage in the national media. The
    movement reached global in 1990, decades later.



    color:black;letter-spacing:-.25pt">The day's goal is to raise environmental
    awareness and conservation. It provides an opportunity for individuals and
    groups to coordinate and participate in projects such as neighbourhood clean-up
    campaigns, tree plantings, and various eco-education efforts. People are made
    aware of the negative repercussions of human activity on the environment. We
    should all remember that we may all help to preserve the health of the world
    for future generations.

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