Former President Richard Nixon celebrated the first Earth Day in 1970 by planting a tree on the White House South Lawn. An enormous turnout of some 20 million people across the country attended Earth Day festivities, putting the fight against pollution on the political agenda.
But large gatherings are not possible amid the global coronavirus pandemic, so Earth Day has moved online. Millions of people around the world are expected to take part in the anniversary of whatPresident Trump and the First Lady also take part in a tree planting ceremony at the White House today. Last year Trump'sdid not mention climate change, and at times he's even denounced the issue as a hoax.
"We originally envisioned [this] Earth Day as a really critical turning point for the movement," says Naina Agrawal-Hardin, a 17-year-old high school junior from Ann Arbor, Michigan.over the last year-and-a-half as they organized a series of school climate strikes.that the world must dramatically reduce carbon emissions, and soon, if it hopes to avoid the most catastrophic climate impacts.
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Avarice.
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Trump wants a return to The Good Old Days ™️
The one thing I cannot forgive Trump for is pulling out of the Paris Agreement
Here’s my thought on earth day ! The Wuhan and EarthDay kinda go hand and hand! So all you ClimateChange idiots should have learned a lesson from Al Gore
Dear leaders Covid-19 response is killing the greatest generation. Dear leaders environmental policies will be killing the grandchildren.
Trump doesn't care about the earth, so long as some one can profit.
Liars! Don’t ignore the tree planting.
What about China and India?
Here’s an idea! Financial aid for education
Aren't you publicly funded by my tax dollars? Why are you constantly shilling for the Democrats? I think it's time to petition to get rid of that.
They've made billions. They don't need my hard earned taxpayer dollars. The corporate welfare needs to stop.
Trump doesn’t care.
50 yrs ago Nixonpassed; 🌎 Clean Air Act 🌍 Clean Waters Act 🌏 Species Protection Act * Why? Because there was South pollution you couldn't see our Mountain Majestys🌄🌅🗻🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅
Sounds like U r surprised ?
If you are there! Some of us aren’t.
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yeah I totally want my tax dollars to go bailing out a dying industry. that’s the fiscal responsibility i like to see
Sweet!
Why did Ira Einhorn claim he founded Earth Day?
GOP NEEDS TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES FIRST AND REGULAR WORKERS FIRST. Gas/Oil have huge resources and provided subsidies they squandered!
I have a great idea for the gas and oil industry. it is already here. Bankruptcy and unemployment and shareholders getting wiped out. Then give all the subsidies the gas & oil industry enjoy to green energy.
of course not and it is a disgrace that realDonaldTrump and GOP don't care about the environment
Yeah assholes, thousands and thousands of jobs depend on it.
Excellent! Marvelous! Thank you President Trump, and keep up the fantastic work! NPR, we know what you are.
Imagine a country where it's socially unacceptable to 'believe', one and one are two. That certain elements behave the way they do. That their obvious source is a matter of contention.
What?!? 45 did something in DIRECT opposition to what was intended for (insert holiday, cabinet position, appointee) ?!! It's almost like he was placed in this position to utterly dismantle American institutions! 🤔🤔
Trump is not being the helper we are looking for
Could you see Melania doing this? Wearing a jacket that had FTW on it. I thought Nixon was bad. I miss Tricky Disk now, and 'W' as well.
have you been paying attention to oil lately, Russia v Saudi Arabia?!?! Climate change is a mute subject in the world right now. Much bigger issues that need to take place. Have perspective please
I hate the fact that our government refuses to MOVE FORWARD with more renewable energy and alternatives to fossil fuels. Screw the oil and gas industry. Some day, we'll look back them the way we look at buggy whip manufacturers.
So what happened to this tree? Did Dumbp cut it down and use it for firewood last Earth Day? We are in so much trouble with this moron. Wait until the hurricane season this year and Fla gets wiped out. No global warming here?
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We give oil companies billions already. Then we let them drill on public owned lands and they never bother to pay us for the lease. Then they release toxic pollution and poison us. The last thing the oil and gas industry needs is more taxpayers money.
COVIDー19 All landscapers are considered nonessential, except for the 9 year old kid with the push mower who the White House recruited to cut the East lawn for a photo op a while back.
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I don't know if the video was edited, but I watched the footage of Trump announcing that the US was pulling out of the Paris Agreement. It was sickening to watch all of those greedy corporatists cheering as he bumbled his way through the speech.
National Propaganda Radio.
This is why you don't throw away your vote on third party candidates, even if they claim to be environmentalists.
Imagine how much progress we could have made on CC if it hadn't been turned into a partisan issue right off the bat. Perhaps if a bipartisan coalition was formed back around 2000, we would all be on geothermal by now. Nope, had to make it partisan.
We need GREEN TECHNOLOGY
Green propaganda
Wasn’t he as President which removed the First Lady’s garden? He is a complete ass! realDonaldTrump
It's crazy that there are adults on here following NPR just to troll it.
NPR is foreign propaganda funded with US taxpayer dollars
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Just like a 'Barron.'
Let's close down NPR and use the money to plant some trees
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Perfect cartoon from TomTolesToons with washingtonpost: Happy 50th EarthDay! EarthDay2020
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