Earth Day is Tuesday April 22. On the first Earth Day in
1970 the Cuyahoga River was on fire as it flowed through downtown Cleveland on
its way to Lake Erie.
The cornucopia of unregulated pollutants being dumped into the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland caused the river to burn as it flowed into Lake Erie
Today after passage of the Water Pollution Control Act
aka Clean Water Act and other protections we have salmon spawning in the
Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland.
The Cuyahoga River near downtown Cleveland today looks like it belongs in the wilds of northern Wisconsin - and it has lake-run salmon spawning in it each spring
Protection of Mother Earth is celebrated one day each
year (shouldn't we celebrate our real mother everyday?) in April. Given the
importance of clean water to drink and clean air to breathe and wild areas to
get in touch with ourselves again I think Earth Day should be a National
holiday. Columbus Day is and Chris never stepped foot on what is now the United
States.
Shouldn't the giver of all life - the Earth - rank higher
in priority than an Italian sailor who was looking for spices for the King and Queen of
Spain when he landed on Grand Turk island in the West Indies?
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