Today is International Earth Day 2024-How it was established and by whom

International Earth Day today April 22, 2024 and environmental organizations organize events around the world, with the aim of raising the awareness of young and old on environmental issues. International Earth Day is celebrated in more than 175 countries and since 2009, the United Nations has designated today’s date (22.4) as “International Mother Earth Day».

International Earth Day 2024: When it was established and why

The inspiration of the institution is attributed to activist John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. Events first took place in San Francisco and other cities on March 21, 1970, the day of the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.

Earth Day was established in 1970, in the USA, on the initiative of the senator Gaylord Nelson and marks the genesis of the modern environmental movement. Soon, it spread throughout the world and today, it is celebrated in more than 190 countries around the globe. The Earth Day Network is coordinating the efforts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Senator Nelson proposed the idea of ​​Earth Day, the planet had not yet realized the consequences of human intervention in the environment. However, some consciences had begun to awaken. After January 1969, watching the tragic consequences of the largest oil spill in the US to that day, in the Santa Barbara Channel, which resulted in the deaths of more than 3,500 seabirds, as well as dolphins, seals and walruses lions, Nelson took action.

THE A US senator has formed a group of 85 people to promote the idea of ​​a day for the environment. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and squares to demonstrate for sustainable development and environmental protection. By the end of the year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had been created and the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Act. “We took a risk, but it worked”said Nelson, who was awarded the highest civilian honor in the US, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1995.