Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth

What a week we've had...and it's only Thursday. April 2021 you are showing up and showing out (Snow? Really?). Today is April 22, which is known as Earth Day. I'm proud to say that we really come a long way. Born and raised in Cleveland, our whole lives we've been joked and talked about because of our water catching fire. I was only a baby at the time, but looking at the Google Images of literal flames dancing across what is supposed to be water is truly mind boggling. This travesty helped to encourage the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. The outrageous pollution levels were a catalyst for a lot of preservation efforts. As a country, we've made a lot of changes. There's still a lot of industrialization and toxic waste in the world, and there's still a long way to go to fix everything. Today we can reflect on conservation efforts. EARTHDAY.ORG is a leader in affecting change. Their virtual conference today spawned conversation about many topics, including:

• Climate and environmental literacy
• Climate restoration technologies
• Reforestation efforts
• Regenerative agriculture
• Equity and environmental justice
• Citizen science
• Cleanups, and ecosystems

Grassroot activists are saving our planet. This year's theme, Restore Our Earth, highlights our need to replenish the resources that generations of inept policies and illegal proceedings have stripped away. Let's elevate our actions to conserve water, replanting, regrowing, reshaping, and redoing our ecological imprint. Saving our planet and being better to the environment is a renewed priority for the Biden Administration  and other world leaders. We should be trying to make things better for our future. I have to admit, I could be so callous. I have no kids, so technically once I'm gone, I'm gone. I could say I don't have to worry about the future. In actuality, that means all of your children are my children. All of your people are my people, All of your generations are my generations. So I have to work just like everyone else to make sure the planet we leave behind for the future generations is a planet they can sustainably live on. I see that they're doing a lot of testing on the planet Mars. For my people, getting on a ship to go to an unknown place didn't work so well. There's still struggles that we're fighting. I'm not necessarily trying to be a test dummy on the red planet to see what's going on there. I'd rather save the planet that we're living on here. So I do my part, or at least the bit that I can to make sure to live responsibly. To recycle, and take care of the things that I can. I do whatever humanly possible to make sure that my imprint and energies i put into this world are good. I hope to be positive, and I hope to have a long life, so that I can produce a long life for those around me. But let me hear your thoughts. I want you to share your comments and share your opinions below, I want to thank you for reading this article, and supporting this blog space. Please stay safe, healthy, and warm. Take Care and God Bless!!!