“When the West slept, Bharat showed path to observe celebration of Earth”, Firspost, April 26, 2023:
“While we all get together to become climate activists, especially on this 22 April of each year that we know as “Earth Day”, the truth remains that as the throttle towards climate change is high today, the “play with climate” was always a project of Imperialistic Colonisers who have become preachers of mass that sings carols themed “environment protection.”
It took the ugly incidence of Barbara Oil Spills of January-February 1969, that a politician from the west, GaylordNelson,to recognise 22 April 1970, as the first “Earth Day.” The fact goes this way, that an oil-well drilled by Union Oil Platform located six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara in California, had blown out. It led to spillage of oil in volume larger than three million gallons, which as per estimates had murdered more than ten thousand seabirds, dolphins, sea lions, and other aquatic beings.
This came to the eyes of Senator Gaylord Nelson after he saw the disaster from the airplane and according to Denis Hayes, the organiser of the first “Earth Day”, this inspired him to create the day that we talk about today…”
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