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“Earth Day 2021” Is Too Big It’s Not Fillable! In The First Place, It’s Not Feelable

Today, Thursday, 22 April 2021, is designated worldwide as “Earth Day.” Did you know 2021 is 50 years since Earth Day 1970? Today is exactly half a century; what can we celebrate? Nothing to be proud of! Even the website earthday.org is not celebrating, just listing the years of events or something. What we have is a static Earth Day!
(Original “Earth Day” image[1] from PNGhut.com)

“Earth Day 1970 gave a voice to an emerging public consciousness about the state of our planet.” Now, 50 years later, that voice may be louder, but it’s still just a voice crying in the wilderness of nonchalance, non-science.

“30 years on, Earth Day 2000 sent world leaders a loud and clear message: Citizens around the world wanted quick and decisive action on global warming and clean energy.” Nothing doing.

“As in 1970, Earth Day 2010 came at a time of great challenge for the environmental community to combat the cynicism of climate change deniers, well-funded oil lobbyists, reticent politicians, a disinterested public, and a divided environmental community with the collective power of global environmental activism.” That “environmental community” did not win any battle.

25,550 days since the beginning – and that’s all we can count: days! As my copywriter self is almost as old as Earth Day, 1974, with Tony Zorilla’s Pacifica Publicity Bureau with Nonoy Gallardo as Creative Director, I know that the Earth Day celebration was off-the-mark right from the beginning:

There was no graspable symbol with which to identify one’s effort at celebrating or pushing for a magnificent Earth Day to come one day, no doable symbolization, no immediately measurable achievement to go after. No powerful slogan to move mountains in every energy-hungry country. So? Nothing to celebrate.

Is the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown good for Earth Day because of the restrictions in travel and, therefore, limited use of fossil fuels that give off climate change gases? Car owners will learn they can’t have their cake and eat it too. I hope so!

As an agriculturist, in agriculture, I can give you a measurable yardstick of whose results we can all be celebrating each year Earth Day, also known as “Climate Change” – non-use by farmers of chemical fertilizers, up to zero point zero. That would reduce much, much the climate change gases that go up the atmosphere every second of the day.

Is “Zero Chemical Fertilizers” doable? Absolutely! But no country in the world has done it, despite the scientific knowledge, because politicians – and academicians – are afraid of Big Brother chemical companies!

Fear is the enemy of freedom. You have the freedom to choose which fertilizer to use. How much organic fertilizer did you use today? You can ask that question any day of the year and you know you are contributing to the celebration of a Happy Earth Day sooner than 50 years!

But that is only for Agriculture. What about for the World at Large? Today, I cannot yet coin a slogan for Earth Day. The best is yet coin!@517


[1]https://pnghut.com/search/celebrating-earth-day

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