End Plastic Pollution with Earth D
In 1969, Earth Day-founder Senator Gaylord
Nelson witnessed the massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
Inspired by the anti-war movement of the ’60s, he felt that the
increased awareness of pollution could bring the subject to the national
attention.
Earth Day 1970 was created via a rare agreement
between both political parties and the disparate views through American
society. The movement quickly led to the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency later in the year.
Earth Day went global in
1990 mobilizing 200 million people world-wide … though climate change
deniers and fossil fuel industry bureaucrats continue to try and derail
the movement’s efforts.
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