The Earth Day is being celebrated on 22-April every year worldwide with an objective to protect environment. Today on 22-April-2013, the 43rd anniversary of the Earth Day is being celebrated across the globe and over 192 countries are taking part into it and organizing different types of events to create awareness among the people. The main objective of celebrating Earth Day every year is to spread awareness among people about the need to protect our environment.
The idea of celebrating earth day on March 21 was first proposed by John McConnell in 1969 at the UNESCO Conference in San Fransisco but the US Senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelso later proposed April 22 to be observed as Earth Day.
Since then, millions of people across the world celebrate Earth Day on 22 April and spread awareness and knowledge to the common people on various environmental concerns through posters, awareness campaign, and social media and discuss on topics like how to protect environment, conserve resources and prevent animals.
Students from various school, colleges and other institutions actively take part in the Earth day celebration to gather as well as spread knowledge on several environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation, climate change, endangered species, ozone depletion and other burning topics that has raised serious concerns for the environmentalists across the world in recent times.
In addition to that, many non-profit organizations, governments and communities organize various interactive sessions and seminars to discuss on how to protect environment.
The significance of Earth Day has increased significantly in recent years due to the degrading environmental standards, which has raised various environmental disturbances that could affect the life of plants, animals as well as humans in several ways. So, Earth Day 2013 is the right time to educate people about the importance of protecting environment and conservation of nature and natural resources as if we would not be serious on the issue, it can be prove really hazardous.
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Comments:
DrdebND
May 1, 2013 at 3:07 AM
It is wonderful to know how Earth Day has evolved and spread to over 192 countries. Environmental concerns are increasing. We desperately need to save the Environment, every second the Earth is getting polluted by poisonous gases and fumes made by technological advances, big industry, manufacturing, automobiles and so on. Earth day should be every day. We can all work together, doing our part by choosing Eco friendly things every day.