2016世界地球日手抄報英文

World Earth Day

April 22

Earth Day was first observed in Spring of 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attendedfestivities out of which came the largest grassroots environmental movement in U.S. history, and the impetus for national legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. By the twentieth anniversary of that event, April 22, 1990, more than 200 million people in 141 countries participated in Earth Day celebrations.

Former US Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day's co-founder, modeled Earth Day on anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, called "teach-ins," that were common on college campuses. "At a conference in Seattle in September 1969, I announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment," says Nelson. "The response was electric. Telegrams, letters, and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country." As many as 20 million Americans participated in environmental rallies, demonstrations and other activities in the 1970 Earth Day.

Since the first Earth Day, however, the environmental movement has increasingly transformed itself from a largely grassroots, citizen crusade to a professionally-organized, established special interest.

世界地球日活動起源于美國。

1969年，美國民主黨參議員蓋洛德尼爾森提議，在全國各大學校園內舉辦環保問題講演會。當時25歲的哈佛大學法學院學生丹尼斯海斯很快就將尼爾森的提議變成了一個在全美各地展開大規模社區性活動的具體構想，并得到很多青年學生的普遍支持。

1970年4月22日，美國首次舉行了聲勢浩大的“地球日”活動。這是人類有史以來第一次規模宏大的群眾性環境保護運動。

作為人類現代環保運動的開端，“地球日”活動推動了多個國家環境法規的建立。1990年4月22日，全世界140多個國家、2億多人同時在各地舉行多種多樣的環境保護宣傳活動。這項活動得到了聯合國的首肯。從此“地球日”成為“世界地球日”。

地球是人類的共同家園，然而，隨著科學技術的發展和經濟規模的擴大，全球環境狀況在過去30年里持續惡化。有資料表明：自1860年有氣象儀器觀測記錄以來，全球年平均溫度升高了0.6攝氏度，最暖的13個年份均出現在1983年以后。20世紀80年代，全球每年受災害影響的人數平均為1.47億，而到了20世紀90年代，這一數字上升到2.11億。目前世界上約有40%的人口嚴重缺水，如果這一趨勢得不到遏制，在30年內，全球55%以上的人口將面臨水荒。自然環境的惡化也嚴重威脅著地球上的野生物種。如今全球12%的鳥類和四分之一的哺乳動物瀕臨滅絕，而過度捕撈已導致三分之一的魚類資源枯竭。

世界地球日活動旨在喚起人類愛護地球、保護家園的意識，促進資源開發與環境保護的協調發展。中國從20世紀90年代起，每年4月22日都舉辦世界地球日活動。

Earth Day was first observed in Spring of 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attendedfestivities out of which came the largest grassroots environmental movement in U.S. history, and the impetus for national legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. By the twentieth anniversary of that event, April 22, 1990, more than 200 million people in 141 countries participated in Earth Day celebrations.

Former US Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day's co-founder, modeled Earth Day on anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, called "teach-ins," that were common on college campuses. "At a conference in Seattle in September 1969, I announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment," says Nelson. "The response was electric. Telegrams, letters, and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country." As many as 20 million Americans participated in environmental rallies, demonstrations and other activities in the 1970 Earth Day.

Since the first Earth Day, however, the environmental movement has increasingly transformed itself from a largely grassroots, citizen crusade to a professionally-organized, established special interest.

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