The first Earth Day occurred in 1970, and it raised awareness of the importance of protecting the environment.
Now, more than ever, we must all stand together to support the environment, to defend science, to denounce fake theories, and to protect the earth.
The Trump administration thinks that climate change is a hoax. Trump’s budget makes deep cuts in the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, which has enjoyed bipartisan support for almost 50 years.
Earth Day is April 22.
Join your friends and neighbors to speak up for clean air and clean water. Join with them to protest the budget cuts to scientific research in many other agencies.
Plan now for April 22.
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April 1st is also an important day where every blogger that belongs to EdBlogNet can slam the Malignant Narcissist in the White House with fake news about him and his agenda.
I wonder what the Poet will write on April Fool’s Day, a day that should be dedicated to Donald Trump.
Start planning poets and bloggers. I am.
Lloyd,
Every day is April Fool’s Day.
Yes, for the fool in the White House and the deplorable voters who still worship him as their false prophet savior.
There is also the Climate March on April 29 that will be taking place in DC, NYC and I believe other places.
I do not think it is in NYC, although that would be more convenient for me.
Id like to see a massive much on Trump tower a little sooner like Sat April 15th complaining about the cost to the tax payer to support trumps family and golf outings.
https://peoplesclimate.org/?source=350
march
I stand corrected . From my email after I signed up
https://peoplesclimate.org/sister-marches/
There is a People’s Climate March that will be occurring on April 29 in a small town in NW Indiana, about 20 minutes from my condo.
I’d advise people to check this out and find a march near you.
I’m planning to make a poster with a cartoon character of Trump holding a sign reading, “Climate change is a hoax.”
I plan on marching past 1600 Pennsylvania ave screaming at the top of my lungs ‘give him the chair.’
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/26/major-climate-march-communities-nationwide-april-29
I was led to believe from correspondance from the organizers that something would be happening in NYC and that I would receive information. I have only received info for the D.C. march so far.
Against all odds, an endangered variety of bumble bee just made it on to the official endangered species list. Hurray. Trump may be unaware of this event.
I wonder what will become of these lists and the policies and practices that surround their use in an effort to save threatened species.
Given Trump’s enchantment with and ignorance of the consequences of nuclear warfare, maybe we will be eligible for the list…if it matters.
In any case, thanks for the heads up on Earth Day.
I want to bring back a species that has been extinct for millions of years. My vote is for the Allosaurus. Once one is cloned and grows to maturity, Trump can spend a night in the same room with an Allosaurus that hasn’t been fed for a week.
See its your fault Trump is cutting research dollars
Trump can’t stop the Chinese. If they clone an Allosaurus first, I hope they donate one to the Trump family and deliver it to the club in Florida when Malignant Narcissist is visiting which he often does at taxpayer expense.
Reblogged this on rjknudsen.
When I think of how much things have changed since the first earth day, what strikes me more than anything else is the cavalier attitude of many politicians toward science.
Today, it seems almost mind-boggling that the EPA was actually started by a Republican — and Richard Nixon, no less!
Most Republicans today are significantly worse than Democrats when it comes to environmental issues and there is no need to even belabor their anti-science stance on things like climate change and environmental protection in general.
But, unfortunately Democrats also sometimes ignore science when it suits their need.
Obama was a mixed bag on science. He appointed some very knowledgeable people (eg, Steven Chu) to run some of his department’s and did some very good things regarding vehicle fuel economy standards and to reduce coal burning and other greenhouse emissions.
..But he also took a notably unscientific approach on some other issues. He all but ignored science on education policy (well documented on this blog) and also on fracking and oil and gas drilling.
It’s not like no one had previously reported negative impacts of fracking and injection of waste water, but the Drill baby drill policy went ahead nonetheless, with the full knowledge by EPA and others that drilling companies were pumping toxic fluids into the ground which could (would?) quite plausibly negatively impact (ie, Poison) drinking water in Wells and aquifers. If that were not bad enough, it is now becoming clear that EPA estimates of methane leaks at oil and gas Wells were/are significantly understated, which is cause for serious concern since methane is a very strong greenhouse gas, albeit over a shorter term than Co2.
When the entirely predictable BP oil volcano occurred, Obama (or his Head at EPA, at least) gave the go ahead for the use of 1.8 million gallons of the chemical dispersant COREXIT, with nearly a million gallons applied underwater at the source of the volcano on the sea floor, despite the fact that toxic effects of the dispersant on fish, sea turtles, marine mammals and, yes, humans were well documented, despite the fact that there existed dispersants that were KNOWN to be less toxic than COREXIT and despite the fact that little to nothing was known about the detailed, possible long-term impacts of introducing such a quantity of the dispersant directly into the water column.
When the dispersant was sprayed underwater at the source, most of the oil remained submerged “out of sight and out of mind”. Some might say the latter fact actually drove the policy more than anything else.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/energy/dirty_energy_development/oil_and_gas/gulf_oil_spill/dispersants.html
Unfortunately, when it comes to using science to advise environmental policy, i am not particularly optimistic.
we seem to be going backward rather than forward. Love
Auto-correct is now adding “love” to the end of my comments.
Gotta love it.
Speaking of the environment, I you wish NOT to become a tree hugger, then DO NOT read “The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate,” by Peter Wohlleben.
I read the book shortly after having recently felled a very tall, mature pine tree only to leave the stump. Now I understand I might have taken out a mother pine tree and orphaned three pine tree juveniles. I also now understanding the three orphans may be struggling to provide nutrients to the stump of their mother via the belowground “Wood Wide Web” so as to keep that part of her alive.
Man, I’m feeling guilty as sin.
I love trees, especially on a cold winter’s night.
And to show my love, I hug them — usually several times a day, whenever i bring in an armful of firewood for the woodstove.
Whenever we went out for a walk, we always hugged the trees. Sometimes children would tell me about trees they hugged on their way to and from school. They were always very affected by the Lorax (Dr. Seuss).