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Autor
Tortell ,Philippe , autor
Título
Earth 2020 : an Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet / Philippe Tortell.
Editor
Open Book Publishers
Tema
Calidad del aire
Contaminación
Descripción
On 22 April, 1970, millions of people took to the streets in cities and towns across
the United States, giving voice to an emerging consciousness of humanity’s impact
on planet Earth. This first Earth Day was the brainchild of US Senator Gaylord Nelson,
and was organized by a grassroots movement coordinated by Denis Hayes, a twenty-fiveyear-old Harvard student. The Earth Day events included demonstrations, teach-ins and
community clean-ups (‘Trash Wednesday’) in over 2,000 communities across the country.
Protesters shut down Fifth Avenue in New York City, while students in Boston staged a
‘die-in’ at Logan airport, lying in coffins to raise awareness about the dangers of airplanerelated pollution. Demonstrators in Chicago called for an end to the internal combustion
engine. The protesters were mostly white, middle-class and overwhelmingly young, but
their message also reached some in the older generation. Walter Cronkite, by then widely
seen as the most trusted man in America, hosted a half-hour Earth Day special on the CBS
Evening News. He had become increasingly concerned about ‘the fouled skies, the filthy
waters and the littered earth’, as he put it, and he concluded the news special with a call for
the public to heed ‘the unanimous voice of the scientists warning that half-way measures
and business as usual cannot possibly pull us back from the edge of the precipice’. (Tomado del libro)
the United States, giving voice to an emerging consciousness of humanity’s impact
on planet Earth. This first Earth Day was the brainchild of US Senator Gaylord Nelson,
and was organized by a grassroots movement coordinated by Denis Hayes, a twenty-fiveyear-old Harvard student. The Earth Day events included demonstrations, teach-ins and
community clean-ups (‘Trash Wednesday’) in over 2,000 communities across the country.
Protesters shut down Fifth Avenue in New York City, while students in Boston staged a
‘die-in’ at Logan airport, lying in coffins to raise awareness about the dangers of airplanerelated pollution. Demonstrators in Chicago called for an end to the internal combustion
engine. The protesters were mostly white, middle-class and overwhelmingly young, but
their message also reached some in the older generation. Walter Cronkite, by then widely
seen as the most trusted man in America, hosted a half-hour Earth Day special on the CBS
Evening News. He had become increasingly concerned about ‘the fouled skies, the filthy
waters and the littered earth’, as he put it, and he concluded the news special with a call for
the public to heed ‘the unanimous voice of the scientists warning that half-way measures
and business as usual cannot possibly pull us back from the edge of the precipice’. (Tomado del libro)
Fecha
2020
Colaborador
CC - BY
Idioma
Ingles
Tipo
Libro digital
Identificador
9781783748457 (ISBN Paperback)
9781783748464 (ISBN Hardback)
9781783748471 (ISBN Digital)
9781783748488 (ISBN Digital ebook (epub))
9781783748495 (ISBN Digital ebook (mobi))
9781783748501 (ISBN Digital (XML)
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Cobertura
Estados Unidos