Earth Day

byDraganD1

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Updated 4 years ago

International Earth Day, April 22, is celebrated every year around the world with various manifestations and actions. They aim to draw public attention to the importance of preserving the environment and to lead to a change in environmental awareness.

Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, in the United States. This date was officially accepted as Earth Day at the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro. The Conference was attended by a large number of government representatives when a long-term program to promote the sustainable development of the planet Earth was agreed upon.

The increase in the number of inhabitants on Earth and industrialization have led to air, land, and water pollution. Unhygienic illegal landfills are also a growing problem. In the last hundred years, the planet Earth has experienced greater pollution than millions of years ago. Irresponsible human behavior has led to climate change, caused by disturbances that have led to the known greenhouse effect, global warming, as well as to the extinction of many plant and animal species from the face of the Earth.

The current situation, more precisely the consequences are so severe and devastating that this day must not and cannot end only with marking and various manifestations dedicated to the planet Earth. We, man, world governments, and states are required to organize, an honest and constant activity that should be aimed at reducing the harmful consequences, stopping, eliminating all harmful activities that destroy human plans for the future. This means that our fear of a possible meteor from the universe that destroys life on Earth is nothing compared to the destruction that threatens us, and which was caused by man himself.

How dangerous is it?

Has the spirit been released from the bottle?

Yes, of course, and that is why it must be said what that means.

Fossil fuels lay all around us waiting to find an effective way to use them, and that is finally happened by finding a steam engine that is marked the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Almost all the progress of our civilization in the last two hundred years has been powered by the energy we get from fossil fuels, but it did not come without a price.

Long-term production and combustion of coal, oil derivatives, and natural gas have led to increasing concentrations of gases that cause the glass effect gardens in the atmosphere and this will have long-term consequences for the climate of our planet.

This has caused global warming, a change in temperature on our planet, which has caused numerous other consequences, such as:

- melting of polar caps and glaciers

- rising sea levels

- changes in precipitation patterns and frequent floods

- increased frequency of extreme weather events that cause the drying up of rivers, lakes, swamps

- acidification (increase in acidity) of the ocean which leads to changes in biodiversity

Is it 12.05?

The ecological problems on our planet today are much bigger than 51 years ago when the celebration of this day began. If a person does not pay the necessary attention to the preservation and protection of the environment and sustainable development, if he continues to behave irresponsibly, he will find himself in a situation of being buried and suffocated in his own waste materials. On the one hand, increasing amounts of waste in the environment, and on the other hand, the irrational use of natural resources threatens the human race to experience self-destruction. The oceans of the sea and rivers are full of plastic and other hard-to-decompose waste, which is increasingly polluting not only the water but also the surrounding soil. The immediate victims of this are plants and animals that are increasingly "suffocating" and disappearing in this human "product" which, on its destructive path of destruction, will not bypass its creator and culprit, man.


That is why Earth Day is a stimulus to the following human activities:

- creating conditions for sustainable development
- conservation of biological diversity
- economical use of natural resources
- use of renewable energy sources
- proper disposal of garbage and use of secondary raw materials recycling
- fight against all factors that adversely affect climate change, etc.


It is not enough to be active only when it is Earth Day or World Human Environment Day (June 5). The planet Earth provides us with conditions for life every day, so it is necessary that we behave every day by rationally using everything that the Earth provides us. Every man on the planet, wherever he is, must respect the laws of nature and act in accordance with them. Only in that way will he be able to preserve what nature has selflessly given him.

Conclusion

Earth Day is an opportunity for every citizen to think about their behavior towards the Earth, and to contribute to making the Earth cleaner and more beautiful. Only a healthy and clean environment can provide us with a better quality of life. Awareness of the need for environmental protection and responsible behavior should be raised together.
It is no longer a question of culture, it is a question of survival, survival of man, survival of all kinds, survival of the Earth.
Unfortunately, man, as the most intelligent, most intelligent being on the planet, brought his home, the Earth to the door without return. Now the future awaits with great uncertainty. He must understand that political and all other issues cannot take precedence over the problem above all, climate change.