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Happy Earth Day! April 22 is the 51st Anniversary of what has become the largest secular civic event in the world. According to the Earth Day Network, about 1 billion people around the world participate in Earth Day events. And it all started in 1970.
Opinion
Andrea Farber De Zubiria
Back then, most people had never even heard of recycling or the ozone layer. There was little awareness about things like toxins being dumped into rivers, factory pollution, or pesticide dangers. Even if problems were identified, there was often not much legal recourse.
Personally, I was 6 in 1970, thinking about things like snacks and swings and Bugs Bunny cartoons. But Woodsy the Owl was starting to show up on TV between cartoons, teaching me and my friends to Give a Hoot and Don’t Pollute. Americans were waking up to the need to protect our air and water and endangered species.
Citizens Climate Lobby: It’s on us
By Peter Boogaart
The word existential is showing up in climate discussions these days, along with the word crisis. Climate change is rebranding as climate crisis. The semantic changes reflect the seriousness with which climate scientists are reviewing their studies. A 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) upped the ante. Given the trajectory of global warming, the world community has a small window, perhaps 10 years, to take evasive action and flatten the curve.
Still, existential is a lot to ponder. Everything we’ve ever known is at risk? Really? How does one even think about that? Is there a framework? For all its quirky humor, Steve Carell’s film, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a good place to start. Who would we be? What would life be like in a doomed world? How does one even grasp the notion of cataclysm?
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