HOW WILL YOU GET INVOLVED THIS YEAR?
"[The COVID-19] virus is attacking us, slowing us down, and even stopping us in our tracks. So as Earth is finally getting the sabbath it needs, we can use this time to rethink our relationship with the planet going forward. We can make different choices that protect both Earth and our [neighbours]. Hopefully this pandemic will show us that not only are we capable of making different choices, but that we must." -- Leah D. Schade
2020 Theme
The theme for Earth Day 2020 is climate action. The enormous challenge — but also the vast opportunities — of action on climate change have distinguished the issue as the most pressing topic for the 50th anniversary.
Climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make our world habitable.
BACKGROUND
Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire.
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet.
The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement, and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event.
Source: https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/
Visit earthday.ca for resources and more information.
Below is a message for Earth Day to the Anglican community from Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and leader of the Green Party of Canada.