Earth Day 2022: How did Earth Day begin? How should we commemorate it

Earth Day 2022 will be held on Friday, April 22nd, and the theme for this year is Invest in the future of our planet. So, what are your plans?

“This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate,” the website stated. “Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods.”

Citizens, governments, and corporations are being urged to do everything they can to address the climate disaster in order to “build a healthy planet for our children and their children.” according to advocates.

The beginnings of Earth Day

Earth Day was held for the first time in April 1970, before the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act, or the Clean Water Act ever existed. There were simply no laws in existence at the time to safeguard the environment.

According to earthday.org, Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” published in 1962, was essential in developing public knowledge and concern about environmental issues. It was published in 24 countries and sold over 500,000 copies. Senator Gaylord Nelson, according to the EPA, launched Earth Day in the spring of 1970 as a method to put the issue into the national limelight. In December 1970, Congress authorised the construction of a new federal agency to deal with environmental issues, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, after 20 million Americans demonstrated across the country.

The first national coordinator, David Hayes, teamed up with Nelson in 1990 to spread Earth Day festivities to over 100 countries, turning it into a global event.

Every year on April 22nd, it is observed.

How will you commemorate Earth Day 2022?

According to Earthday.org, there are several events scheduled around the world to commemorate Earth Day 2022.

For every $1 donated, the Canopy Project will plant a tree somewhere on the planet.

The Great Global Cleanup is a worldwide effort to clean up billions of pieces of rubbish from streets, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks. It’s all part of a larger campaign to minimise waste and plastic pollution, improve habitats, and protect wildlife and humans. A number of cities are conducting similar activities.

People can also contribute by making small adjustments in their daily lives, such as composting and using reusable cutlery, according to advocates.

Tree planting, displays, and other activities are being held in several towns across the country.

Biden’s focus on climate change has not shifted.

President Joe Biden has a difficult road to attaining his lofty goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, owing to parliamentary impasse that has blocked a $2 trillion package of social and environmental programmes.

Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which includes $550 billion in expenditures and tax credits targeted at encouraging clean energy, was derailed by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who declared shortly before Christmas that he couldn’t support the package as written.

Biden may pursue his climate agenda through rules and regulations even if legislation is not passed. However, as evidenced by Biden’s reversal of Trump administration rules that stripped back Obama-era protections, those can be undone by later presidents.

Biden’s executive ability to limit tailpipe emissions from automobiles and trucks, as well as restrict emissions from power plants and other industrial sources, experts say, as well as the federal government’s immense power to approve renewable energy projects on federal lands and seas, experts say.

Indeed, the EPA approved stricter pollution rules for cars and trucks the day after Manchin’s shocking revelation on December 19. As part of the administration’s attempts to combat climate change by shifting away from fossil fuels, the Interior Department approved two large-scale solar projects in California and pushed to open up public lands in other Western states to solar development.

Under the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in November, the administration has access to tens of billions of dollars, including $7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle chargers, $5 billion to deliver thousands of electric school buses across the country, and $65 billion to upgrade the power grid to reduce outages and facilitate the expansion of renewable energy like wind and solar power.

“I think the U.s has a lot of tools and options to make gains on climate in the next decade,” said John Larsen, an energy systems specialist and partner at the Rhodium Group, a nonpartisan research organisation.

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