World Earth Day | A day to spare for Mother Earth | Essay

Preface

World Earth Day 2020 will be celebrated by people from all over the world on 22 April, Wednesday.

Like every year, the program of World Earth Day was celebrated with much fanfare this year. On this occasion, various programs were organized across the country. Accordingly, in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, on the occasion of World Earth Day, a program of environmental awareness and plantation was organized in primary school Rajapur in conjunction with Gayatri Parivar Youth Cell.

A similar attempt was also found in Ajmer, Rajasthan, where Provincial Special Secretary Lion Rajendra Gandhi told the people about the negative effects on the earth due to increasing pollution.

Along with this, a quiz competition for children was also organized in this program. In which they were asked various environmental questions and children who gave correct answers were also rewarded. At the end of the program, a message was given by the guests to plant more and more trees by planting trees in the park.

Plantation done in Tata College

On the occasion of World Earth Day, World Earth Day was celebrated at Tata College, Chaibasa, a tribal child welfare hostel on behalf of the Students' Union at Tata College in Chaibasa, Jharkhand. Due to which a variety of trees and seasonal fruits were planted in the entire campus and with this, the students were conveyed to the people to plant more trees, telling them the serious consequences of harvesting green trees.

World Earth Day information and history

World Earth Earth Day is celebrated every year on 22 April as an annual event by people all over the world to show environmental safeguards as well as to raise awareness among the people about environmental protection. For the first time, it was celebrated in 1970 and since then it has started celebrating this day annually on a global basis by around 192 countries.

The celebration of World Earth Day as an annual event was started to seek national support for better attention to environmental safety by solving its issue. In 1969, a peace activist named John McConnell of San Francisco who was actively involved in starting the event proposed to celebrate this day together for environmental protection. The event was chosen by John McConnell on 21 March 1970 to commemorate the spring equinox, while on 22 April 1970, the United States Senator Gaylord Nelson was selected to celebrate the event.

In order to resolve their environmental issues for a better future, they approached people to join this program together. During the first ceremony of World Earth Day, lakhs of people expressed their wishes and participated to understand the goal of this program. Instead of setting a date for World Earth Day, it started celebrating both days. In general, celebrating the Earth Day program began with the common task of planting new saplings in important areas across the globe.

On April 22, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson of America was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award for his participation in the good work of establishing the date for the Earth Day celebration. It was later focused on 22 April as World Day globally by Dennis Hays (the de facto national convenor) in the year 1990 among about 141 nations. Most of the Earth Day community celebrated this for the whole week, called Prithvi Week, to focus on many environmental issues. In this manner, 22 April 1970 was marked as the anniversary of the modern environmental movement.

Besides placing environmental issues before the people, controlling anti-war movement, Earth Day 1970 was established to increase awareness of people for other animals, self-realization. A major tragedy behind the founding of the Earth Day celebration program by founder Gaylord Nelson (a U.S. senator from Wisconsin) in St. Barbara, California, in 1969 was the tragedy of the massive oil spill. The tragedy inspired Gaylord Nelson to lead environmental protection measures, along with raising public consciousness for air, water and soil pollution.

Why is 22 April celebrated as Earth Day?

Our Earth is the only planet where life is possible even today. To preserve life on earth, it is very important to maintain the natural wealth of the earth. In this crowd, humans are the most intelligent work created by God, forgetting to take care of their humanity and their planet. The earth that gave life to it, today it is mercilessly using the resources of the same earth. April 22 has been marked as Earth Day to make the human race aware of the importance of their planet.

This day was laid by USA Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin to make people aware of the day-to-day rate of industrialization along with the careless attitude of the people on the earth. This step by him honours promotes the wealth of his planet and promotes it among the people.

 What to do on Earth Day?

1. Plant new saplings at important places.

2. Get involved with your family in some outdoor activities such as building a bird nest for the tree        and discussing their role in the ecosystem.

3. To encourage people to reduce the use of plastic bags to avoid land and water pollution.

4. Teaching your children about recycling and reusing old items.

5. Participating in the removal of dirt from roads, parks and elsewhere.

   

6. Participation in entertainment activities such as singing songs related to environmental protection        and attract more and more people to participate in this festival.

7. Participate in academic sessions such as seminars, discussions and other competitive activities 

    related to the protection of the earth's natural resources

8. Encourage people by wearing green, brown or blue clothes to show environmental colours.

9. Encourage people to conserve energy through various practical resources.

10. Teach people that every day is Earth Day, so every day they should take care of the Earth.

Importance of World Earth Day celebration

This day (April 22) was chosen by Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, to get the full impact of the environmental protection campaign among the common people, especially the youth, and to raise awareness among people of every class and group. By keeping a few things in mind, he chose this day that there would be no disturbance of the examination for the students or there would be no fair or festival for the common people, so everyone can give their full attention to this festival. According to the Gregory calendar, it is believed that Vladimir Lenin had 100 birthdays on 22 April 1970.

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