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 on the sidewalk says that you have no respect for your country, please do. Earth Day has many purposes that people should know about and stay involved in.
The Essay on Earth Day 2
Earth Day is an annual holiday, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In 2013 the day is 43 years old. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network,[1] and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year. [2] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, the date proposed was March 21, 1970, the first day ...
There are many things that you can do on Earth Day or any day to help out our country ecologically. The first thing that I want to cover is recycling, this is the easiest thing of all to do and most people have a recycling bin out front of their houses, use it. Volunteering to clean roads and sidewalks is another great way to help out our environment. If you could ride your bike or walk to work once or twice a week it would make a difference. Carpooling on the way to school, or to work, or just to a baseball game is another way to help out our environment, and also get minimal traffic congestion. By not using harmful CFCs in aerosol cans like hair spray and spray paint, you are not depleting the ozone. By wearing green on April 22nd you show that you are supportive of Earth Day. Last, stop the litter before it starts, if you don’t litter in the first place nobody will have to pick it up. These are just a few of the many things you can do to help out on Earth Day.
Be supportive of Earth Day think of all of the things that the earth has done for you and go do something for it. Be helpful, and if you have anything you can do for the earth, do it, there is no reason not to. If you are busy or you are just too lazy please show that you support Earth Day by wearing green on March 21st. Earth day is something you should be more involved in and know more about because there are many things for you to do, it is a good purpose, and it has a great history.
