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Rachel Carson

American marine biologist, author, conservationist and environmental activist, whose sea trilogy and her earth shattering book  Silent Spring about the devastating impact of DDT on all ecosystems and the wildlife are credited with advancing marine conservation, environmental legislation and the global environmental movement.

Marine conservation was very important to Rachel Carson and is at the heart of what must be done.

This is her legacy!

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Personal History
The first Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 1970, I spent that night imploring Florida’s Governor Claude Kirk to do something to save the Everglades. Kirk had come to our university campus to prevent what he said would be a student uprising. The Everglades sea of grass had been decimated by the US Army Corps of Engineers with a grid of canals, levees and spillways designed to drain the swamp and make it arable to support sugar cane plantations this country needed to replace the previous now embargoed communist Cuban source. Like many legislators, Governor Kirk just didn’t get it.

Since then, I’ve attempted to remain in harmony with our environment, staying true to my core values to do no harm. For me and my fellow Baby Boomer students, Earth Day was a real awakening. We continue to pay it forward. Now more urgently, something must be done. For more than 50 years I have wondered what could I do to effect a more positive outcome, anything that would make a measurable impact on the environment.  So, I set up this website and founded this organization to accomplish life goals of sustainable resources and viable Earth and Oceans Biomes.   

In 1969, Senator Gaylord Nelson had an idea for a national teach-in about the environment to send a message to Washington that public opinion was solidly behind a bold and necessary political agenda of fixing environmental problems. Earth Day became his brainchild. He saw the need to provide unity to the grassroots environmental movements and increase ecological awareness. "The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy,” Senator Nelson said, “and, finally, force this issue permanently onto the national political agenda." 

Rachel Carson's sea trilogy, ‘Under the Sea Wind,’ 1941, ‘The Sea Around Us,’ 1952, ‘Edge of the Sea,’ 1955, and ultimately the 1962 publication of her book ‘Silent Spring’ about the lethal effects of pesticides are often cited as the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Sustainability, a “back-to-the-land” movement and ecology concerns continued as the values of environmentalism which were not part of a radical liberal left wing uprising.

Back when John Kennedy established three national seashores to protect coastlines and oceans, promoted a youth conservation corps and moved the needle on the necessity to preserve the environment he made his "Legacy a comprehensive environmental initiative." The first Earth Day increased environmental awareness of our government and the general population until in July of 1970 the Environmental Protection Agency was established by Nixon’s executive order to regulate and enforce national pollution legislation. The continued Earth Day fever caused Congress to pass the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts which Nixon signed into law. Now, not so much is being done on the environmental front.

Let the spirit and unity of Earth Day and environmentalism provide the needed justification to give us the dedication to join together to continue improvement of all our ecosystems necessary to reduce pollution, conserve our natural resources, and promote sustainable practices to protect habitat and enhance overall well-being of all Earth’s creatures as we nourish life on Our Blue Orb.

stevendphilbrick

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