What is Earth Day? …. “🌎 How did it Begin? … Trip Down Memory/History Lane 🌎 …. “!!


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~~April 22, 2018~~ 

TRIP DOWN HISTORY LANE

HOW DID IT BEGIN?

It seems that a lot of effort has been placed in the celebration of our planet, Mother Earth.

In the United States, the ‘Environmental Protection Agency‘ was created to assure that norms and regulations were put in place to do this country’s part in the worldwide effort to protect this planet.

At the time of this writing, it looks like all those efforts are in the process of dismantling by the current EPA top official in association with the Executive branch of the current government.

That cannot be allowed. Grassroot efforts must be undertaken once again to assure that Mother Earth is protected.

In this instance, history MUST repeat itself.

Remember, there is no ‘Planet B’!

HortyRex©

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 “We need the tonic of wildness – to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

~Henry David Thoreau~

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We ALL are connected through NATURE!! 

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~~What is Earth Day?~~

~~Published on Jun 21, 2017~~

This is a remake of our earlier Earth Day video.

Reading Through History

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IOTD …. “🌎 Gallery of Images of the Day …. Very Special Edition …. Happy Earth Day, 2018 …. Awesome Video Included 🌎 …. “!!


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~~April 22, 2018~~ 

EARTH DAY 2018

~THERE’S A LOT DO TO STILL~

I was 20 years old in 1970.

I remember the establishment of this day. I took a summer class in college all about the environment in my country, Puerto Rico. I bought books, I read them all. I became aware of Bill McKibben (The End of Nature), Jeffrey Hollender (How To Make the World a Better Place), The Earthworks Group (50 Simple Things You Can Do series) and many more.

I was young, idealistic adult and a believer that my generation would change things.

As I look back today, it saddens me to see that I was wrong.

More than ever, there’s a lot of work to do today.

HortyRex©

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Here are some of my ‘green books’!! 

img_8875 Earth Day 1970, an event to increase public awareness of the world’s environmental problems, is celebrated in the United States for the first time.

Millions of Americans, including students from thousands of colleges and universities, participated in rallies, marches, and educational programs.

Earth Day was the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, a staunch environmentalist who hoped to provide unity to the grassroots environmental movement and increase ecological awareness.

“The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy,” Senator Nelson said, “and, finally, force this issue permanently onto the national political agenda.”

Earth Day indeed increased environmental awareness in America, and in July of that year the Environmental Protection Agency was established by special executive order to regulate and enforce national pollution legislation.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.history.com

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~~Earth Day 2018 Narrated by Julian Lennon~~

~~Published on Apr 11, 2018~~

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Something to think about …. “Really Think About …. “!!


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~~July 27, 2016~~ 

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

I consider myself a liberal.

My views are liberal in almost every sense.

My way of thinking, my way of life, my ethnicity, my lifestyle, my gender …

…. doesn’t  allow for any other way of thinking.

At the present time, with the other “candidate” presented by the GOP, this country faces, dangerous times and the possibility of moving backwards rather than forward.

It’s time to think about the children and the grand children who will inherit the reality that we leave behind.

Just a thought …

HortyRex©

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I do not own this image.

No intention of taking credit.

If anyone knows the owner of any, please advise and it will be corrected immediately.

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Remember the BP Oil Spill? The Gulf is back to normal … yeah, right!!


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~~August 2, 2014~~ 

IT’S BEEN FOUR YEARS

How can anyone say that the Gulf is back to normal?

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.

It claimed eleven lives and is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, an estimated 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previously largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill. Following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it was capped on 15 July 2010.

The US Government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m3). After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010.

Some reports indicate the well site continues to leak.

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In November 2012, BP and the United States Department of Justice settled federal criminal charges with BP pleading guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter, two misdemeanors, and a felony count of lying to Congress.

BP also agreed to four years of government monitoring of its safety practices and ethics, and the Environmental Protection Agency announced that BP would be temporarily banned from new contracts with the US government. BP and the Department of Justice agreed to a record-setting $4.525 billion in fines and other payments but further legal proceedings not expected to conclude until 2014 are ongoing to determine payouts and fines under the Clean Water Act and the Natural Resources Damage Assessment.

As of February 2013, criminal and civil settlements and payments to a trust fund had cost the company $42.2 billion.

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~~FULL READ/SOURCE/FULL ARTICLE~~ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

~~UNFORGETTABLE IMAGES~~

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~~11 Facts about the BP Oil Spill~~

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-bp-oil-spill

~~BP Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010 Footage and Images~~

I still get chills watching this

~~Uploaded on Jun 6, 2010~~

~CrnaLisica~

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also called the BP Oil Spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or the Macondo blowout.

I don’t own the Video Footage or Images. Special thanks to the various people that captured the video footage and the images.

Music : This is a soundtrack from an Korean TV show “Over The Green Fields”. The composer is Thao Nguyen Xanh.

Water and oil don’t mix. Will we ever learn?

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We ALL are connected through NATURE!! 

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We ALL are ONE!! 

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