The Importance of Celebrating the Environment on Earth Day
The Importance of Celebrating the Environment on Earth Day
Earth Day is something you should know more about and be more involved in because of its intriguing history, its wonderful purpose, and the many things you can do to help. It is simply nothing short of amazing that earth day is still making an impact on the United States today. I feel that Earth Day was a wonderful thing to start and I think that it has helped the USA stay a cleaner place on this earth. It is amazing that a day for cleaning our country that originated thirty years ago with hippies and it is still around today.
Earth Day has a very interesting history that everyone should know about. Senator Gaylord Nelson was the founder of earth day. Earth Day’s main idea was conceived over seven years starting in 1962. President Kennedy tried to stop the anti-Vietnam War “teach-ins” and use some hippie power to a good cause by starting Earth Day. The President went around the country talking of how to keep our nation clean while congress accepted the idea of an “earth day”. The plan was now starting to work; now people had a new subject to talk about and now it was cleaner rivers and air, not Vietnam. The first Earth Day was celebrated on March 21st 1970. The very interesting history of Earth Day is something that everyone should know about.
The purpose of Earth Day is to help to keep our grass green and our skies blue with more trees and less pollution. Earth Day was made for another reason, to focus the nation on its ecological problems and not its ones with Vietnam. Earth Day has lost its first reason of Vietnam and now it is out there so that people are more aware of what they are actually doing when they throw a candy wrapper out the window, or leave their Styrofoam cup sitting on the sidewalk. People need to use their streets and sidewalks and we cannot have them to be operating with massive amounts of trash on them. Keeping our national parks clean is another concern of Earth Day, volunteers go out to clean national parks such as Yellow Stone on Earth Day so that foreigners don’t think that all Americans are pigs. Most of all, Earth Day is a way to restore patriotism in American Citizen’s hearts; throwing a cup...