I want to share a quote with you from an ad published in the New York Times in January of 1970. “On April 22, we start to reclaim the environment that we have wrecked.” Those words were written by the organizers of the very first Earth Day. It’s grown to the largest civic observance in the world. How have we done in the 51 years since then? A historical look suggests…not great. Climate Central reports that since that first Earth Day, carbon dioxide concentrations in our air rose twice as much than they did in the entire century before 1970. There’s now more atmospheric carbon dioxide than in the last two million years. To view the full article visit CPR.
