Earth Day April 22, 2010
Gulf of Mexico – BP Oil Rig Explosion
April 21, 2010
First Earth Day 1970
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin conceived the idea for Earth Day following a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after the horrific oil spill off the coast in 1969.
Outraged by the devastation and Washington political inertia, Nelson proposed a national teach-in on the environment to be observed by every university campus in the U.S.
“I am convinced that all we need to do to bring an overwhelming insistence of the new generation that we stem the tide of environmental disaster is to present the facts clearly and dramatically.”
One of the organizers of the event said:
“We’re going to be focusing an enormous amount of public interest on a whole, wide range of environmental events, hopefully in such a manner that it’s going to be drawing the interrelationships between them and, getting people to look at the whole thing as one consistent kind of picture, a picture of a society that’s rapidly going in the wrong direction that has to be stopped and turned around.”
When it comes to saving our planet for future generations, we all have the best intentions. But in order to chart a new course on energy and climate, we must turn those good intentions into action — and it begins with each of us taking initiative in our own homes and communities. Read more below and at the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation…
Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central Petróleo del Golfo de Desastres Central de Acción Action du Golfe en cas de catastrophe central au fuel 海灣石油災害行動中 Gulf Oil Central de Acção de Desastres Галф ойл опасности действий Центральной Gulf Oil Ramp Actie Centraal الخليج العمل من الكوارث النفط الوسطى Gulf Oil Disaster działania Centralnego Minyak Teluk Bencana Tengah Aksi אסון גאלף אויל מרכז פעילות Gulf Oil Δράση Καταστροφών της Κεντρικής Golf Olie Ramp Aksie Sentrale खाड़ी के तेल आपदा केन्द्रीय लड़ाई ガルフオイル災害アクションセントラル
“El mundo entero está siendo destruido por el petróleo! Todo el mundo, por favor firme todas las peticiones! Gracias SEN para la creación de la Gulf Oil de Acción en Desastres Central para ayudarnos. Que Dios tenga piedad de nosotros si no somos capaces de usarlo! — La familia de Carlos Montoya”
“The whole world is being destroyed by oil! Everyone in the world, please sign all the petitions. Thank you SEN for creating Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central to help us. God have mercy on us if we fail to use it! — The Carlos Montoya Family”
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Suzanne, I was astonished to learn the first Earth Day in 1970 was in response to a 1969 Santa Barbara oil-spill disaster, and the Gulf disaster started the day before Earth Day in 2010.
In all that time our dependence on oil has only increased. Our politicians are more bought off by Big Oil and Coal than ever. Investment in clean energy is a pittance.
I’m going to sign some of those petitions you have listed on your Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central, for which I thank you.
But what I’d really like to do is shove Obama’s face into a barrel of crude and ask him just how much he cares about my children.
Above and below we reproduce the comment of Carlos Montoya, who on our Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central page wrote:
El mundo entero está siendo destruido por el petróleo! Todo el mundo, por favor firme todas las peticiones! Gracias SEN para la creación de la Gulf Oil de Acción en Desastres Central para ayudarnos. Que Dios tenga piedad de nosotros si no somos capaces de usarlo! — La familia de Carlos Montoya
I don’t know what shocked me more, seeing that an oil spill that happened before I was even born is the thing that started Earth Day, or seeing that meter telling me how much oil is still pouring into the Gulf!
Shame on all the people who could have prevented this. Not just BP, but all the Presidents and Congressmen and an entire PATHETIC generation of Americans!
Your fathers fought a world war and gave you opportunity galore, and this is what you do for YOUR children and grandchildren?
I’m willing to bet most visitors to this site won’t even take a minute to sign a petition on your Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central page!
I’m ashamed of my generation and my country. What will our children think of us when this all comes home to roost and it’s too late for them to do anything about it but try to survive?
I’m horrified by this tragedy and disgusted by the greed and short-sightedness that caused it, but not surprised. America is a nation of shameful gluttons, and lacks the wisdom to come in out of the oil. How ironic that BRITISH Petroleum landed near New Orleans and conquered your southern coast with a single bomb killing 11 of your citizens. And now you bleat and beg for reparations even as you plan to resume more drilling by BP and others off more of your shores. Stupid Americans.