Earth Day was last Monday (22) and we
here in the Cayman Islands had the whole day to celebrate it as it
was a National Holiday.

No. Our government did not give us all
the day off because it was Earth Day. It was the Monday after Easter.

However, did you get excited and told your friends and family it was Earth Day so lets do something to save our planet.I expect there were some of you who did do just that but I doubt you were in the majority. Earth Day isn't as important to some of us as, say St Patrick's Day, where we can drink beer that has changed in colour to green, amongst many other entertaining useless feats.

Are we, therefor, as passionate about
restoring and preserving the planet’s health and commemorate Earth
Day?

Earth Day isn't something new and
brought about by the frightening aspects of climate change. That has
made millions of us worried about our Earth, all except our
politicians who will only adopt it if it shows some merit is gaining
points for them.

Earth Day was first recognized way back
in 1970. It started in the USA, which may surprise US President
Donald Trump, who believes, because he always knows best, that
climate change is one big hoax. Incredible really seeing that the USA
is one of the worst polluters and heavily responsible for what is
happening.

Earth Day Network President Kathleen
Rogers is quoted as saying, “We began to see a giant wave of
environmental damage [that] accelerated in the 1960s. Those changes
included rivers literally catching on fire because boats would
discharge oil and gas into the harbors and industrial facilities
built along harbors and waterways were processing fuel. Around the
late 1960s, chemical plants were dumping into our waters. We began to
see enormous numbers of birth defects, as well as a decline in our
species, including the bald eagle, which was reduced to very small
numbers.”

The situation had gotten out of hand,
Rogers said, and drastic improvements were needed.

Then, in January 1969, an oil spill
from an offshore platform gushed over 3 million gallons of oil into
the Santa Barbara Channel.

It formed a 35-mile-long oil slick
along Southern California’s coast, coating beaches in oil and
slaughtering thousands of sea mammals, birds and fish, the Los
Angeles Times reported. It was the largest oil spill off the U.S.
coast at the time.

“People were appalled by the lack of
immediate response and the inability to respond," Rogers said.
"It created a wave of interest."

Demonstrations took place, and Earth
Day arose out of that pollution.

Although that was a wake up call then
there are still many people to wake up now. Unfortunately all those
people who are still executing the pollution and/or have the power to
do something, are laying down on their comfortable beds, snoring
their stupid heads off. They don't care.

It can be put off for another day, a
year, years..... Poof! Bang! Wallop! Silence. The Earth is dead.

SOURCE MATERIAL FROM:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/how-earth-day-grew-to-empower-1-billion-people-worldwide-to-preserve-our-planets-health/70004711