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Thank You Dear
Suzy for Sending out to Your List This Information About the Celebration
of Earth Day
"WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD" - Louis Armstrong, February, 2-20-1988
- Played to Wonderful Images of The ANIMAL KINGDOM! -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlUy10CYtpo&feature=related [2:45
min]
- Breathtaking Scenery and Images! -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsXg1uF_b4&feature=related [2:20
min]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oU_OdSDHSE&feature=related [2:15
min]
"WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE/ABRAHAM, MARTIN and JOHN" -
Tom Clay, July, 7-10-1971 ... 2 MUST-SEE VIDEOS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhZ2PDl-aM&feature=related [6:20
min]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqNLnEzDLA&feature=related [6:25
min]
- The History of a Movement - Part #1 -
Each year, EARTH DAY -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many
consider the birth of
the modern environmental movement in 1970.
The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970
brought the death of
Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge
Over Troubled Water."
Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the
cause. War raged in Vietnam,
and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.
At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8
sedans. Industry belched
out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad
press. Air pollution was
commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. “Environment” was a word
that appeared more
often in spelling bees than on the evening news. Although mainstream
America remained
oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change
by the publication of
Rachel Carson's New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. The
book represented a
watershed moment for the modern environmental movement, selling more
than 500,000 copies
in 24 countries and, up until that moment, more than any other person,
Ms. Carson raised public
awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and public
health.
Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the
energy of the
anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and
center.
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