{"id":9028,"date":"2015-04-22T14:28:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2015-04-22T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T14:28:48","slug":"happy-earth-day-everyone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9028","title":{"rendered":"Happy Earth Day, everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>So help me, I wish Earth Day was a bigger deal than it has become.<\/p>\n<p>For a whole day &#8212; as if that&#8217;s enough time to honor the only planet we have &#8212; we&#8217;re supposed to put Earth on the top of our mind&#8217;s awareness.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7mzBIR05Eu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/\">Homepage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Homepage&#8221; &#8212; Earth Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/embed\/#?secret=gqiDBmerPt#?secret=7mzBIR05Eu\" data-secret=\"7mzBIR05Eu\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the 45th annual Earth Day. Many communities around the world are going to have public events to commemorate the day. That&#8217;s fine. I welcome all the attention that will be paid to Earth until the sun comes up tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it was created 45 years ago, that means Earth Day began during the Nixon administration. I doubt President Nixon really paid a lot of personal attention to the condition of the planet, but I certainly applaud that it was during his years in the White House that the Environmental Protection Agency was created.<\/p>\n<p>In the decades since Earth Day&#8217;s creation, though, it has become something of a political flashpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us believe the planet is in peril. Our climate is changing and yet humankind keeps doing things to the planet that exacerbate the change that&#8217;s occurring. Deforestation is one thing. Spewing of carbon-based emissions is another. Some of say we need to do a better job of protecting our planet &#8212; or else face the consequences, which are as grim as it gets. Hey, we have nowhere else to live &#8212; for the time being, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Others of us say there&#8217;s little we can do. Climate change? It&#8217;s part of Earth&#8217;s ecological cycle. We need to accept the inevitable and not seek to destroy our industrial base to chase after a cause that is far too big for mere human beings to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t accept the hard-core climate change deniers&#8217; thesis.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, I am at least grateful that the world sets aside a day to honor the good Planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>We ought to do it <em>every<\/em> day of <em>every<\/em> year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So help me, I wish Earth Day was a bigger deal than it has become. For a whole day &#8212; as if that&#8217;s enough time to honor the only planet we have &#8212; we&#8217;re supposed to put Earth on the top of our mind&#8217;s awareness. Homepage This is the 45th annual Earth Day. Many communities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Earth Day, everyone!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1027,1320,1497,1498,1607,1927,3940],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-climate-change","tag-deforestation","tag-earth","tag-earth-day","tag-epa","tag-global-warming","tag-richard-nixon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}