Celebrating the most important day in the world: Earth Day 2021!
On Thursday, April 22, the world will celebrate Earth Day, the largest non-religious holiday on the globe.
This Earth Day falls at a critical turning point. It is the second Earth Day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and follows a year of devastating climate disasters, such as the wildfires that scorched California and the hurricanes that battered Central America.
International Earth Day is celebrated to remind each of us that the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and sustenance.
It also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for in the 1992 Rio Declaration, to promote harmony with nature and the Earth to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations of humanity.
Garbage in Lake Uru Uru, in Oruro, Bolivia, March 30, 2021. (EPA Photo),
An official of the Municipal Government Health Unit walks among the pollution of Lake Uru Uru, in Oruro, Bolivia, March 30, 2021. (EPA Photo)
Garbage piles cover fields and streets after heavy rainfall in Lagos, Nigeria on June 7, 2020. (Adeyinka Yusuf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)