What is Earth Day?

Question

So what is it

Answer 1

about 24.018 hours..

Answer 2

Earth Day is a name used for two different observances, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere. These are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment. The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the vernal (March) equinox; while a global observance in many countries is held each year on April 22.

and its my birthday!

Answer 3

The U.S does celebrate it, and it's not exactly to do with global warming. It's been around a fairly long time, and it's just about celebrating nature. We usually plant a tree on Earth Day, and we have since I was a small child.

Answer 4

It's not only bout global warming - the US DOES take part and so do some people in the UK.
I am Pagan and we celebrate Earth Day by planting trees and picking up litter. We finish with a picnic outside and appreciate Mother Earth.
This is usually on 22nd, 23rd or 24th April (near that time).
It's a lovely day and one I think we should all acknowledge.
If it were not for the Earth we would not be alive!

Answer 5

Its on 20th or 21rst of march and its the day earth completes a cycle around the sun (which takes a year as most people know, lol) its the first day of spring and is celebrated as the new years day in many countries.
Apparently its officially 22nd of April but really don't know

Answer 6

I celebrate it by planting a rose bush or something in the community garden. I think it is always April 22 and started in the 60s as a day to take care of the earth. You should plant a tree a shrub or a bush as was told to us by the First Lady Lady Bird Johnson.

Answer 7

Earth Day is the day Al Gore makes a pile of green cash off the green scam.

Answer 8

Well Earth day is when you don't litter in the Earth and you keep the envirment clean.

Answer 9

I think it started in 1972, designating April 22 as an annual date to acknowledge that not all of the planet belongs to we humans, that we share it with other species, and our despoiling of it with our machines and pollutants is killing them, flora and fauna, and us, the humans who need to eat those flora and maybe those fauna.

But the ravaging and pollution have continued so I'm advocating quarterly Earth Days as an emergency measure to increase cognizance of the Threatening Changes of the 'human effect.' July 22, or nearest weekend, is Summer Earth Day. October 22, or nearest weekend, is Autumn Earth Day. January 22, or weekend, is Winter Earth Day. And April 22 continues to be Spring Earth Day. Some day we may be able to go back to an annual 'birthday' for Earth Day. But, if we don't educate ourselves and each other and change the course we're on, there may come a year when the day arrives but the Earth is dead.

The human effect is a recent phenomenon. In 1850 it is estimated there were a billion humans, all alive at the same time, burning wood, dung, grass, a little coal and oil. But in 1859 they began to drill for oil and vaporize 'lakes' of it. The humans learned to burn oil and coal and use the heat to turn water to steam and enslave that energy to turn machines to multiply production of goods, the Industrial Revolution.

They learned about germs and medicines (real medicines in those days; not the traveless medicine show of your 21st century tv that sells snake oil that makes you sicker than you are already). Humans survived, thrived. In only 75 years, 1925, the number of humans had doubled, 2 billion, all alive at the same time, and vaporizing mountains of coal, oceans of oil, still burning wood and grass and dung. Making chemicals and spewing waste into Earth's air, water, and soil. In only 37 more years, 1962, there were 3 billion humans all alive at the same time. And in only 14 years, 1976, 4 billion. And 10 years for 5 billion, 1986. And...now it's, well, 2008 in just a few more days. How many humans? How much oil and coal and wood and gas and grass and dung are being vaporized, liquified, dumped? How many cars and trucks and boats and planes and skimobiles and ATV's and motorcycles and weedwhackers and lawnmowers and tractors and chainsaws are there?

So the human effect is a significant factor on the entirety of the planetary equation, one that can reach a 'tipping point,' like an avalanche which suddenly cascades down the mountain. Perhaps cascading global climate change, not just warming, but cataclysmic cooling too. The last 11,000 years, since the last ice age, have been an abnormally pleasant period. Ice cores from glaciers indicate that in the 600,000 years before that the temperatures were much hotter for 100's or 1,000's of years, and much colder for 100's or 1,000's of years at a time. Mother Earth is likely to return to her norm, even if you remove the human factor from the equation. The humans may accelerate the change with a tipping point, but it is inevitable. That's Mother Nature. If you can find leaders of intellect and integrity they can help you adapt to the Threatening Changes of your times, and survive. We're trying here in the early 21st century but greed and ignorance are prolific and powerful.

Hope springs eternal in Quarterly Earth Day, a way of educating people that they can do their individual part to minimize their contribution to the overall effect, and perhaps teach others. There's only one Earth. Take care of your part of it. Plant trees for all your life. A 50 year old tree is 200 times more efficient at scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the air, and giving you oxygen. Recycle. Reuse. Plan your burning to burn as little as possible. Give the rest of life on Earth a break when you can. Leave some wild spaces. Be a wild space. The Choctaw teach to think of the effect of your actions on seven generations to follow. A native American said, "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Wise words, from Earthmen.

Answer 10

a day that youi take some time out and clean up your earth. that is what we used to do at school. we went in our parking lot/playground and clean up liter with rubber gloves on.

Answer 11

its earth day!

day we celebrate earth