Earth Day 2023: History, Significance and Theme

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• Apr 22, 2023 | Kabir Chakraborty

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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