Environmental Awareness
This iconic photograph, EarthRise, is the most influential environmental image ever taken. It encouraged people to take part in the environmental movement. EarthRise was a motivator, the catalyst and impetus of a new ecological awareness and EcoActivism. We can no longer ignore the growing environmental crises of Earth.
We look to science and nature for answers to ensure Our Blue Orb’s viability. We must cherish, preserve and protect our natural resources to help prolong sustainability of the Earth, to improve the fragile ecosystems and the habitats for all of this planet’s creatures.
We love the Earth. We plan to stay. Few of us are billionaires ready to rocket off to Mars. We choose to work for the ideals and goals of the 70s ecological movement. We must not relent. We must stay strong.
Earth Day History
In January 1969, Senator Gaylord Nelson witnessed the ravages of the massive oil spill that polluted miles of beaches of Santa Barbara, California. "Inspired by the student anti-war movement, Senator Nelson wanted to infuse the energy of student anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution." Senator Nelson "recruited Denis Hayes, a young activist, to organize the campus teach-ins and to scale the idea to a broader public…” Earth Day became a nationwide demonstration to raise awareness about environmental issues. Spearheaded by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day has continued to grow into a worldwide movement for environmental action and EcoActivism.
"The purpose of Earth Day was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy and, finally, force this issue permanently into the political arena."
Senator Gaylord Nelson
Rachel Carson
Marine Biologist Conservationist Ecologist EcoActivist
Carson's Sea Trilogy won the hearts of American conservationists. Under the Sea (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951) and The Edge of the Sea (1955) established this award winning best selling author's credentials and gave her the courage to research and write one of the most influential ecological books of all times, Silent Spring (1962).
All people supporting environmental awareness and sustainability must read these books and investigate the impact this woman continues to have on the global environmental movement and Earth.
Environmental Awareness Awakened
President John F. Kennedy’s ecological record was driven by his growing environmental advocacy. As a senator in 1959 he cosponsored the Cape Cod National Seashore Bill. Then, running for president in 1960, Kennedy promoted and urged voters to save seashores as wildlife refuges and recreational areas. JFK was an enthusiastic reader of Rachel Carson's Sea Trilogy and created the Buck Island Reef National Monument to protect sea corals in 1961. In 1962 the president cited the importance of "Miss Carson's book Silent Spring" when he appointed a Science Advisory Committee to review the DDT issue. Their 1963 report mushroomed into proposed federal recommendations for the use and regulations of pesticides. It was 1972 before DDT was finally banned.
The passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 also reflected the momentum and support of popular and legislative environmental activism that reached a crescendo after the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, Audubon magazine printed an article entitled
“Rachel Carson and JFK, an Environmental Tag Team."
This surge of environmental awareness also resulted in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the passage of other critical environmental legislation like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
The Struggle to be heard
Plastic waste affects all living things
THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO WAIT.
Porpita Porpita
Our Blue Orb
Evidence of man
Pollution
Petrochemical Poisons
The sad result
The Time To Act Is Now!
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