Tomorrow is Earth Day 2023, the 53rd anniversary of the original Earth Day in 1970. Our friend Clive reminds us, not only with words but with music, why we MUST do a better job in taking care of “Our Planet, Our Home.” Thank you, Clive, for this perfect reminder!
I have written about this before, and am adapting a previous post as the basis for this one. No apologies for that: the message is still just as necessary and vital. Tomorrow, 22 April, is Earth Day. First held in the US on April 22, 1970, it was opened up to the rest of the world in 1990 and now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) involving 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. On Earth Day 2016, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and 120 other countries. In recognition of this many communities engaged in Earth Day actions: an entire week of activities was focused on the environmental issues that the world faces. On Earth Day 2020, over 100 million people around the world observed the 50th anniversary in what has been…
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Good share Jill.
There’s Hope in Clive’s post (as opposed to my paeleontolic dirges on the subject.
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Thanks, Roger! Heh heh … you, take a bleak view?
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Yeah y’ know me Jill.
Looking to the day when I am sitting on what used to be a mountain, but now an island in a stormy toxic sea in a fetid atmosphere and turning to the Climate Change denier next to me and saying in fatalistic tones:
‘Toldja. S’all in the fossil record,’
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And meanwhile, I will be a wolf somewhere telling my fellow wolves about the olden days when creatures that walked only on their hind legs used these big things called ‘guns’ to kill our ancestors!
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And then one day they turned them all on themselves, and that’s why you don’t see them no more.🐺
(Read James Thurber’s ‘The Last Flower’…. there’s PDFs on the net)
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I just did … OH. MY. 😔 I had read that before, but so long ago that I had forgotten it. Says so much about the human species. Per Wikipedia …
“The Last Flower was written as Thurber began to realize the sorrow and chaos of war, as can be read via the dedication to his only child ‘in the wistful hope that her world will be better than mine.'”
Not likely, is it? Sigh.
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We can be hope 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
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Shared on Twitter, Jill.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thank you, Pete!!!
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I will link to this in tomorrow’s roundup …
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Thank you so much, Ten Bears!!! I greatly appreciate it!
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Thank you so much for this, Jill. The message needs to be seen and heard by as many as possible 🌎
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My pleasure, Clive! Yes, we desperately need to get people to LISTEN to the message. Scientists are now saying that the effects of climate change are coming even faster than they first anticipated, yet still there are too many who shrug their shoulders and keep on doing the same things, keep on supporting fossil fuels, keep on using single-use plastics, and more.
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