World Earth Day i.e. World Earth Day is celebrated every year on 22 April. This day is an occasion when crores of people come together to address the environmental challenges related to the earth such as climate change. Be more aware and accelerate efforts for global warming, pollution and biodiversity conservation. This day is also known as International Mother Earth Day. The purpose of celebrating this is that people understand the importance of the earth and be aware of maintaining the environment better. This is the reason that on this day a pledge is taken to protect the environment and save the earth.
The day of World Earth Day is celebrated by organizing various programs like planting trees, picking up roadside garbage, motivating people to adopt ways of living a sustainable life. Apart from this, programs are organized by schools and various social organizations on this day to spread awareness among children.
Importance of this day
Earth Day is celebrated on 22 April every year since 1970. This day is celebrated to highlight environmental issues like loss of biodiversity, increasing pollution. Various programs are organized by Earth Day Organization (formerly Earth Day Network) on this day. It includes more than 1 billion people from 193 countries.
What is the theme of the year 2022
The theme of this year’s World Earth Day is ‘Invest in our Earth’. Means ‘invest in our earth’. The key point in this is to act boldly, innovate widely and implement equitably. Earlier in the year 2021, the theme of World Earth Day was ‘Restore our Earth’ and the theme of the year 2020 was ‘Climate Action’.
History
World Earth Day is celebrated by 192 countries at the global level. In view of the indiscriminate felling of forests and trees in the 60-70s, in September 1969 at a conference in Seattle, Washington, US Senator Gerald Nelson of Wisconsin announced to celebrate it. Schools and colleges of America actively participated in this nationwide mass movement. And more than 20 thousand people gathered in this conference. This day is being celebrated continuously since the year 1970.
