Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-earth-day-april-22-2024.html
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TAKE ACTION FOR THE EARTH: Featured Organizations
Jane Fonda for Greenpeace
Rabbi Waskow for The Shalom Report
Union of Concerned Scientists
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Additional Articles’ Way to a Better
Fighting for our planet’s survival 4-20-24
Jane Fonda, Greenpeace USA via uark.onmicrosoft.com
Hi, James. Jane here.
I’m not only a climate activist — I’m also a cancer survivor, twice over now. I realize I’m lucky to have had amazing doctors and nurses, and grateful to live in a time in which so much progress has been made in researching this awful illness.
Nevertheless, cancer has become an epidemic: the National Cancer Institute expects 40.5% of people will develop it in their lifetimes. That means it’s almost certain that somebody each of us knows and loves will be impacted by this terrible disease — and this is no mere coincidence.
Not when the EPA keeps finding cancer-causing chemicals derived from oil, coal, and gas in our air, our food, our furniture, our clothes, our cooking utensils — and as a result, in us. This research indicates that fossil fuel reliance and the (corporations profiting from it) are driving both of these crises plaguing our planet.
In short, oil, gas, and coal are making people and the planet SICK. And this multifaceted tragedy won’t stop killing us unless we take urgent action to end it first.
That’s why this Earth Day, I’m standing with a 100% independent, 3.5 million-strong grassroots network using creative confrontation to expose climate culprits, promote solutions, and achieve the transformative change that can and will bring about the healthy, livable future we all deserve. If you’re ready to stand with me, then please, James — rush a 2X-matched gift before midnight April 22 to help Greenpeace USA heal our planet and people from the greed-fueled climate crisis.
Thank you, and happy Earth Day,
Jane Fonda
Actor, Activist, Fire Drill Fridays Founder, and Greenpeacer
Big Oil is suing Greenpeace USA. We need your help to fight back and keep this movement alive — for people, and for our planet.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow via uark.onmicrosoft.com
The Shalom Report
Prayer for Earth Day
Blessed are You, Sacred Interbreath that intertwines all life on Planet Earth. May You inspire us to act to end the burning of our planet for the sake of corporate profit, and inspire us to sow the seeds and nurture the harvest of a world, an Earth, of Love and Justice. For love, as the Song of Songs teaches us, is strong as death — if we embrace You.
(Woven by Rabbi Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center)
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Union of Concerned Scientists
Dear James,
Hopefully, you received my notecard in the mail, thanking you for your support as a Henry Kendall Society member. I just wanted to follow up with a quick email to thank you for supporting UCS and working towards a cleaner earth every day! As you know, with more than 55 years of commitment, UCS continues to provide science-backed solutions that power the environmental movement. With your support, we can address the planet’s biggest issues through our unique blend of science, advocacy, and political engagement.
In honor of Earth Day, check out our Climate Action Button to inspire efforts and actions that you can take and share with your family and friends.
Your dedication inspires our tireless work to bring about transformative change, especially as our planet faces escalating challenges. through our unique blend of science, advocacy, and political engagement.
Thank you. With gratitude,Emma O’Leary
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Earth Day 2024 | Activities & Resources for April 22
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A Proclamation on Earth Day, 2024
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Earth Day 2024: How to Celebrate Earth Day
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Earth Day 2024 | Natural History Museum
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Earth Day 2024: The clock is ticking as the planet takes a …
The Hill https://thehill.com › opinion › 4603999-earth-day-202… — Earth Day on April 22 will be an occasion to celebrate the beauty of nature. But the sweet call of nature might be drowned out by the shrill …
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES: “If way to the Better there be/It exacts a full look at the Worst.” T. Hardy
“Coral Catastrophe Signals Our Own Undoing.”
Editor. mronline.org (4-21-24)
Five times in the history of life on Earth the corals have perished, swept from the board by conditions hostile to nearly all life. Each time, it has taken them millions of years to evolve anew. Each mass death of corals has been accompanied by the mass deaths of most other species, on land and at sea.
Originally published: Pearls and Irritations on April 19, 2024 by Julian Cribb (more by Pearls and Irritations) (Posted Apr 20, 2024). Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, ImperialismAustralasia, AustraliaNewswireAustralia’s Great Barrier Reef, Coral Reef, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch
Corals are the traffic light that warns of planet-wide catastrophe ahead. And the light is glaring red.
Like the wildfires searing the world’s forests and grasslands, like the vanishing of insects, birds and large mammals the corals are another unambiguous signal that humans are riding a runaway train to our own ultimate destruction. Yet our fossil-fuelled governments and corporations heap coals into the engine, keep down their heads and deliberately ignore onrushing disaster.
That the sixth Great Death of corals is now upon us is plain from the evidence piling up around the world. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch has warned the world is now in its fourth global cycle of bleaching since 1998—an ominous crescendo. . . .MORE click on title
These informed voices go unheeded as the crisis unfolds. The corals are telling us our time on Earth may well be up, if we do not heed the warnings they provide. They pose an even more profound question: are human still intelligent enough to survive… or not? Julian Cribb AM is an Australian science writer and author of six books on the human existential emergency. His latest book is How to Fix a Broken Planet (Cambridge UP, 2023).
EARTH DAY IN UNITED KINGDOM
“‘Funeral For Nature’ Taking Place Globally This Weekend”
By The Canary. Popular Resistance.org (4-21-23). A dramatic street theatre performance ‘Funeral for Nature‘ will take place throughout the streets of Bath on Saturday 20 April to mark the devastating decline of the natural world in the lead up to Earth Day on 22 April, an annual event which engages up to a billion people around the world each year. The Funeral for Nature procession includes 400 Red Rebels dressed in their distinctive red outfits and hundreds of mourners in black. They will be accompanied by drummers playing a single funeral beat as they make their way through the city’s historic streets, culminating in a dramatic finale in front of the Abbey. -more-
“Members Of Parliament Challenged To Cut Ties With Polluters” By Phoebe Cooke. DeSmog. Popular Resistance.org (4-21-24). A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work on Monday were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”. In 2019, the UK was the first country in the world to introduce legally binding commitments to reach net zero emissions by 2050. -more-