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World Earth Day 2016 Information and History
World Earth Day 2016
World Health Day 2016 would be
celebrated by the people all over the world on 22nd of April, at Friday.
There is reason behind the title of
this celebration as “Earth Day”. It was suggested by number of people in 1969
and the idea came with “birthday” as Earth day (rhyming word of birthday).
World Earth Day Information and History
World Earth Day is celebrated every
year as an annual event by the people all across the world on 22nd of April in order to increase the
awareness among people about the environment safety as well as to demonstrate
the environmental protection measures. First time, the world earth day was
celebrated in the year 1970 and then started celebrating annually on global
basis by almost 192 countries.
World Earth Day observance was
started to celebrate as an annual event to get national support in order to
better take care of the environmental safety by solving its issues. In 1969,
there was a peace activist of the San Francisco named John McConnell who
actively involved in starting this event and proposed a day to get together for
the environmental safety. John McConnell had chosen this event to be celebrated
in the spring equinox on 21st of March in 1970 whereas United
States Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson had chosen this event to be celebrated
on 22nd of April in 1970.
They had contacted the people to join
this event to get together for solving their environmental issues for better
future. During the first time celebration of the earth day millions of people
shown their interest and participated to understand the motto of the event.
Instead of deciding one date for the celebration of the earth day, it has been
started celebrating on both of the dates. Generally, the earth day event
celebration starts with the common practice of new trees plantation in the
required areas worldwide.
For founding the earth day
celebration date on 22nd of April, United States Wisconsin
Senator Gaylord Nelson was honored later with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Award for his participation in great job. Later, the 22nd of April as an Earth Day was focused
globally by the original national coordinator, Denis Hayes in the year 1990
among almost 141 nations. Most of the earth day communities celebrate it for
the whole week with the name Earth Week to focus on many environmental issues.
In this way, 22nd of April 1970 has been marked as the
anniversary of the modern environmental movement.
Earth Day 1970 was established to
raise the public awareness for self consciousness, other living organisms,
controlling the anti-war protest movement as well as keeping the environmental
issues in front of the people. A big tragedy behind establishing the event of
earth day celebration by the founder Gaylord Nelson (a U.S. Senator from
Wisconsin) was tragedy of the massive oil spill in the Santa Barbara,
California in 1969. This tragedy led the Gaylord Nelson towards enhancing the
public consciousness for the air, water and soil pollution as well as
implementing the environmental protection measures.
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