Throughout the year we celebrate many different days, children's day, mother's day, forest day, biodiversity day, earth day! But why? What sense do these celebrations have?
Some may seem like simple consumerist excuses to buy more and more every day, but we must keep in mind that many of these days were institutionalized to make situations visible and sensitize people about important issues. To draw the attention of the media and governments to the relevance of the hundreds of problems that are still unresolved, to talk about them and put them on the table as important discussion topics that require immediate and recurring actions.
The earth is our home, the only one we have for now , and it is our responsibility to take care of it and protect all those who inhabit it, and today, April 22, is a perfect day to remember this.
As established by the UN “ Mother Earth clearly asks us to act. The oceans fill with plastics and become more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and flooding, as well as a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, have affected millions of people .” If we don't become aware today, tomorrow will be too late.
The history of Earth Day
But... What do we celebrate on Earth Day?
The Living Planet Index detects a global average decline of 68% of the nearly 21,000 populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish studied between 1970 and 2016.
A healthy planet is the only thing that can guarantee a healthy future for all. The Living Planet 2020 report heralds that we are reaching a limit, time is running out and the current crisis is either becoming an opportunity to fuel a green renaissance or a complete loss of ecosystem functions that support all forms of life.
Every day is Earth Day, let's not forget, but dates like these allow us to remember that we must work for their well-being , care and ensure their protection, today is the day to commit ourselves to take action for a better planet, let's remember Today more than ever we need a change.
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Muy bueno, gracias me permitió conocer lo suficiente
salvemos nuestro planeta de la ferocidad y brutaklidad de las potencias imperalistas que estan destruyendo nuestro planeta.la madre tierra es el hogar mas dulce,bello y armonisodonde cobjan todos tus hijos razon ppor la cual hago llamado a nivel internacional para alvar a nuestro planeta y asihacer realida que nuestro planeta y nuestra casa es lo mas hermoso y bello que existeen unestra galaxia.feliz dia madre tierra ya qwue todos te queremos y vamos a cuidar hasta cuando tengamos vida.me siento orgullo de vivir e un hogar tan dulce y bello razon por la cual te deso de corazon feliz dia.
Alguien poda un árbol
y entrega el sol a la ceniza.
Ese árbol ha muerto
con un grito de savia entre las ramas.
Voló una hoja
más allá del crepúsculo.
Miró las ramas caídas
al márgen de los ríos.
Acaso una tragedía
prendió sus garras frías
en la desnuda piel de los samanes?
Grita una raíz ya mutilada
y una rama que arde allá a lo lejos
me ancla en una isla de agua
al pié de la tristeza.
En mi caso, trabajé mas de treinta años en la educación ambiental no formal, mi jubilación no fue óbice para dejar de hacer algo por la tierra, el próximo martes 31 de mayo, dictaré un taller ecológico en el hall de la Biblioteca Pública Central “Leonardo Ruíz Pineda”, de San Cristóbal, a las diez de la mañana.
Existe, sobre todo en mi generación ,un compromiso con nuestra casa común, que es el planeta, en el sentido de continuar depertando una conciencia ecológica sustentable, sobre todo en el trato que le dispensemos a los bienes que pone en nuestras manos la naturaleza.