Earth Day is celebrated across the world every year on 22 April. The purpose of celebrating this day is to spread environmental awareness among people and encourage the efforts being made to save the earth. Carbon emissions have increased significantly since the Industrial Revolution. It is having a bad effect on our earth. Apart from this, today's model of capitalist development has caused considerable damage to nature at various levels. For this reason, the need for conservation of the earth has been felt. In such a situation, along with the race for development, the role of maintaining balance with nature has also been felt. For this reason the role of Earth Day becomes very important.
Why is World Earth Day celebrated?
Nowadays, nature has suffered a lot due to many types of industrial activities. It is having a bad effect on our earth. In such a situation, what are the reasons causing harm to our earth and how can it be reduced?
Keeping this in view, Earth Day is celebrated every year with different themes to spread awareness in society. Celebrating Earth Day started in the year 1970.
In the year 1969, at a special conference of UNESCO held in San Francisco, the date of celebrating Earth Day was fixed on 22 April.
It is noteworthy that Earth Day was planned to be held on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. However, later it was proposed to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
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