The whole earth celebrates Earth Day on the 22nd of April, we appreciate the environment and show our gratitude towards nature and the resources it provides us with. It is observed worldwide, but the Earth Day Organization started in 1970 in California, USA. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire in 1969 due to an oil spill, it got people very worried over the nature of environmental degradation human activities were causing.
The disastrous event was followed by another major one, an oil spill (the largest oil spill at that time) in Santa Barbara Bay, California. It was so big that it was televised, people for the first time in history were watching the sand and sea turn black with oil, corpses of marine animals washing ashore, and birds' feathers becoming black due to tar.
It caused a massive wave of movements across the state and country, it led to the creation of the California Coastal Commission, a state agency in charge of protecting the seashore. At the national level, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, and President Richard M. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Earth Day tradition dates back to the first Earth Day in 1970, which led to the passage of landmark environmental legislation in the United States
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.
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