Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Each Earth Day celebration has an official theme. For 2025, it’s “Our Power, Our Planet.” This year’s focus is on clean renewable energy sources. The goal is to triple global electricity generation from renewable sources by 2030.
I like that we’ve set a five-year goal instead of giving world leaders and industrialists more time to make speeches using platitudes about the future while doing nothing to protect it.
Those of us in the United States are understandably concerned that the many environmental initiatives started during the Biden Administration will be phased out or stopped immediately. Write, email, and/or call members of the current administration, heads of corporations, your U.S. and State House representatives and senators and make sure they know you support addressing climate change. Do the same for your governors, attorneys general, mayors, city council members, and commissioners. Let them know the power of your vote and the power of your wallet. Wake them up to the fact that you will not support a government or any corporate entity stoking the fire while the world burns.
Earth Day celebrations began 55 years ago (1970) to heighten awareness of and take action on critically important environmental issues around the world.. Concerned scientists, environmentalists, leaders (some anyway), and other concerned citizens throughout the world recognized the damage we were doing to our environment. Pollution, global warming, health crises, destruction of ecosystems, endangered and extinct species of wildlife and/or flora and fauna, and the depletion of our natural resources were raising red flags we could no longer afford to ignore.
One hundred ninety-two countries and over one billion people are expected to participate in Earth Day activities this year. Currently, there are over 8.2 billion people in the world. Will you be part of the billion or part of the people with their heads still stuck in the sand?
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and rejoice in the prospect of creating a safer and healthier environment for ourselves and future generations.
explains the benefits of using renewable energy instead of fossil fuels and highlights the health dangers of continuing to ignore the safest solutions we have to meet worldwide energy needs.
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Clean renewable energy is becoming more affordable. Lower costs will help more people throughout the world have access to:
· clean water
· lifesaving heating and cooling systems
· hot and cold running water and filtrations systems to make sure it’s safe to use
· internet access
· reliable transportation
· cleaner air to breathe
· soil that’s safe to grow crops in and safe for kids and pets to play in.
Greater affordability of clean energy will help lift people out of poverty, prevent many illnesses, and help reduce conflicts over limited resources.
Cleaner air, water, and soil will improve the safety and quality of the foods we produce and consume, and preserve the beauty of this planet.
We are perfectly imperfect people, so there is no single solution to the most puzzling problems of this world. We have a piece of the puzzle within reach in the next five years. Let’s put it in the correct spot and keep looking for other pieces that fit.
