Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth

Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth

Share to Linkedin Earth Day has been held annually on April 22nd since 1970 to "demonstrate support" for environmental protection around the world. EARTHDAY. ORG claims that it is "the world's largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75, 000 partners in over 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet". Among its activities, it seeks to influence youth around the world in its approach to environmental activism. Its success in media coverage is apparent, as newspapers around the world devote many column-inches to its activities on Earth Day every year. Earth Day is all about advocacy of the "global environmental movement". It appeals in a missionary style, offering sermons of an imminent ecological catastrophe with a series of threats and warnings (increasing frequency of extreme weather events, biodiversity decline and mass extinction, climate disruption, planetary toxification, etc.). It then presents the good news of salvation to be achieved by series of actions, with the usual exhortations against use of fossil fuels, changing everyday behaviour that reduces use of energy-intensive goods and services, promote "organic" farming to reduce oil-based fertilizers and so on. When such predictions inevitably fail, new predictions are made with new end-dates, and