Over 50 Years Of Earth Day And Why It Is More Relevant Today Than Ever 0 April 27, 2021 14:57 by Isabelle Raikes
Holly Aldridge
The first Earth Day occurred fifty-one years ago, and is widely credited with being the catalyst of the modern environmental movement. As we are celebrating over five decades of Earth Day festivities, it is important that we question how much has changed since 1970.
Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin orchestrated the first Earth Day celebration in 1970. Nelson was inspired by the anti-war teach-ins of the 1960s which opposed American involvement in Vietnam.
It was important that Earth Day was to be about education and Nelson described the event as a ‘national teach-in on the environment’. As a result of its educational focus, Earth Day came to be a ‘voice for the emerging environmental consciousness’ of the 1960s, as it allowed people to engage with environmental issues in a deeper and m
For most Americans the terms “environmentalist” and “liberal” are more or less synonymous. For many historians the set of ideas called environmentalism and the set of ideas called liberalism are similarly and for similar reasons connected. But it is not at all clear why these associations make sense. The environmental historian Roderick Nash provides one explanation for the pairing of environmentalism and liberalism in
The Rights of Nature, where he argues that “one can regard environmental ethics as marking out the farthest limits of American liberalism.”
1 For Nash, the association is a direct one: environmentalism and liberalism are related because the one is an expression of the other. Liberalism, in Nash’s view, centers on granting rights based on intrinsic worth to the previously marginalized and defenseless. As liberal thinkers have argued for the moral consideration of more and more subjects a process that Nash calls the “ethical extension of liberali
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Flanked by a painting of Benjamin Franklin and a 332-gram sample of moon rock, Joe Biden spent his first day as president signing his name on a towering stack of science-forward executive orders: rejoining the Paris climate agreement, revoking the Keystone XL pipeline permit, and launching a review of the Trump administration s decisions around public lands, methane emissions, and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. He called for the federal government to advance environmental justice and be guided by the best science, as a guiding principle for tackling climate change.
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When President Donald Trump moved into the White House in early 2017, those worried about the quickening pace of climate change had every right to be terrified. After all, on the campaign trail, Trump had hollered about pulling out of the Paris climate agreement and reviving the coal industry, as well as banning Muslims from entering the United States and locking up Hillary Clinton.
It wasn t just bluster. Trump tried to do all of that, and much more. The former reality TV star and real estate mogul, with his thumb hovering over the Tweet button, presided over a frenetic presidential term marked by impeachments, walls, and travel bans four years that were as poisonous for the country as they were for the climate.