Earth Day 2026

It's Earth Day (and April is Earth Month). It doesn't seem like many people care about the environment anymore - I can't recall hearing even a Democratic politician speak up about it recently, and the Trump administration is actively destroying it.

A lot of things led up to the first Earth Day, including ...

The extraordinary attention garnered by Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring, the famous 1968 Earthrise NASA photograph of the Earth from the Moon, the saturation news coverage given to the Santa Barbara oil spill and the Cuyahoga River catching fire in early 1969. - Wikipedia

I don't care just about making the planet work for people. I care about the animals, their habitats, our whole ecosystem. I don't understand why people don't seem to care.