摘要：地球日起源于美国.1969年,民主党参议员盖洛德尼尔森提议,在美国各校园内举办有关环境问题的讲习会,并将次年的4月22日作为“地球日”.当时25岁的哈佛大学法学院学生丹尼斯海斯很快将这一提议变成了一个在全美各地展开大规模社区性活动的具体构想,并得到很多青年学生的热烈支持.1970年4月22日,美国首次举行了声势浩大的“地球日”活动,各地约2000万人参加,当时被誉为二战以来美国规模最大的社会活动.
【英文】
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.
ackground Information: Earth Day
April 22 is Earth Day, our country this year to determine the theme of "treat the earth, protect the environment."
Earth Day originated in the U.S.. In 1969, Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the park in the U.S. schools held workshops on environmental issues, and the following year on April 22 as "Earth Day." Then 25-year-old Harvard Law School student Dennis will soon be the proposal throughout the United States into a large-scale community-based activities, specific ideas, and get enthusiastic support of many young students. April 22, 1970, the United States for the first time held a massive "Earth Day", around 2,000 people participated, the United States since World War II, was hailed as the largest social activities.
April 22, 1990, more than 140 countries around the world, 200 million people around the same time held a variety of promotional activities, the theme is how to improve the overall global environment. The event made people more clearly recognize, as the global industry continues to develop, ozone layer destruction, and the resulting global climate change, is becoming a direct threat to the global problem of human existence. The activities of the United Nations approval, then, every year on April 22 was identified as the "World Earth Day."
Currently, the more prominent environmental issues, soil erosion, desertification, pollution of freshwater resources. According to UN figures released by the 20th century, the world's forest area 90 at an average annual rate of 2.4% reduction in the past 10 years, the world's total forest area of the disappearance of 94 million hectares. At present nearly half the land surface and more than one billion people affected by desertification. Pollution in the atmosphere, from 1965 to 1998, global carbon dioxide emissions doubled. The world is facing a water crisis in many countries: 12 million people short of water, 3.0 billion people lack water sanitation
Each year from 3,000,000 to 400 million deaths and water-related diseases. By 2025, the water crisis will be spread to 48 countries, 35 million are trapped by the water.
Earth Day activities held to raise human caring for the earth, protect the home in promoting the coordinated development of resource development and environmental protection. My 90 years from the 20th century, the annual April 22 Earth Day celebrations are held. (END)
【中文】
4月22日是世界地球日,我国今年确定的主题是“善待地球,保护环境”.
地球日起源于美国.1969年,民主党参议员盖洛德尼尔森提议,在美国各校园内举办有关环境问题的讲习会,并将次年的4月22日作为“地球日”.当时25岁的哈佛大学法学院学生丹尼斯海斯很快将这一提议变成了一个在全美各地展开大规模社区性活动的具体构想,并得到很多青年学生的热烈支持.1970年4月22日,美国首次举行了声势浩大的“地球日”活动,各地约2000万人参加,当时被誉为二战以来美国规模最大的社会活动.
1990年4月22日,全世界140多个国家、2亿多人同时在各地举行了多种多样的宣传活动,主题是如何改善全球整体环境.这次活动使人们更加清醒地认识到,随着全球工业的不断发展,大气臭氧层遭到破坏,由此带来的全球气候异常变化,正在成为直接威胁人类生存的世界性问题.这项活动得到了联合国的首肯,其后,每年的4月22日被确定为“世界地球日”.
目前,世界环境问题越发突出,水土流失、土地沙漠化、淡水资源污染等.据联合国公布的数字表明,20世纪90年代全球森林面积以平均每年2.4%的速度缩减,近10年来,全球消失的森林总面积达到9400万公顷.目前全球近二分之一的陆地表面和10亿以上人口受到沙漠化影响.在大气污染方面,从1965至1998年,全球二氧化碳排放量翻了一番.目前世界上许多国家正面临水资源危机：12亿人用水短缺,30亿人缺乏用水卫生设施,每年有300万到400万人死于和水有关的疾病.到2025年,水危机将蔓延到48个国家,35亿人为水所困.
世界地球日活动的举办,以期唤起人类爱护地球、保护家园的意识,促进资源开发与环境保护协调发展.我国从20世纪90年代起,每年4月22日都举办世界地球日纪念活动.
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