Earth Day!

"Earth Day: The History of A Movement

Each year, Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.
At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. “Environment” was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news.  Although mainstream America remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson's New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962.  The book represented a watershed moment for the modern environmental movement, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries and, up until that moment, more than any other person; Ms. Carson raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and public health.
Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center. "

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Many days a week is earth day, here at home with our conservation of things from recycling to using a rain barrel to composting, not driving unnecessarily and I would like to believe that most of you do too; that is realize that cutting emissions from your vehicles, not tossing things aside, but finding either reuses for them or sharing them with others etc.

It is so wonderful to have a day set aside for a reminder, but by now we all know the benefits of being cognoscente of how we should treat our home, the only one we have, earth.
A slow battle to change our ways has been initiated and for some reason our progress to date is not showing to be that significant… but we cannot stop!

Still people are weighing the reasoning for trying to change things, sadly; saying things as we won’t be here when it all changes for the worse.
But is it not true that why would we want to leave such a selfish legacy to our children’s children and all the future generations that should be able to drink water, breath air, and not fear for their lives?

We are the caretakers for them all.

Just a thought; you see being cavalier about our human race’s future seems callus to me.

On that note of much quote, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!