Prepare a speech to the give on the occasion of the earth Day(22april) with the help of the following points 1) Importance of the day 2)give need to celebrate this day 3) suggest some ways to save earth 4) give precautions to make the earth livable
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thank all of you who are here, to celebrate Earth Day, today.
It’s a beautiful day in Wisconsin, hard not to appreciate Earth Day in a place like this.
Today, we honor Gaylord Nelson, who passed away last year, we honor him for his vision.
“The real wealth of a nation is its air, water, soil, forests, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats, and biodiversity,” he said. “Take this resource away, and all that is left is a wasteland.”
And I bow to him not only for raising environmental consciousness around the world, but for his courageous anti-war stance.
He was one of only three Senators to vote against Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 expansion of the war in Vietnam. He stood up to LBJ, telling him: “You need my vote less than I need my conscience.”
But you know I like my heroes life-sized, and when I was at the Memorial Service for Gaylord in the Capitol Rotunda at Madison last July, one of the speakers told the story of Gaylord and Carrie Lee’s 60th wedding anniversary.
At that party, his wife, Carrie Lee, was asked the secret of their long and successful marriage. Without skipping a beat, she said: “We’re both in love with the same man.”
Earth Day is a holiday of great personal significance for me.
I’ve been a birdwatcher since I was about 4.
I’d never seen a sandhill crane before coming to Wisconsin. I’d never seen a whistling swan or a snowy oil or a prairie chicken. And each time I’ve seen them since coming here 23 years ago, it’s been a thrill.
But there is something weird going on now.
A Baltimore oriole was seen in Appleton yesterday, two weeks early.
A ruby-throated hummingbird was seen in Milwaukee last week, three weeks early.
A scissor-tailed flycatcher showed up last summer way up north in Manitowish Waters.
These are like the robins in the Arctic Circle, where the Inuit people have no name for robin.
Or the rain on Christmas Eve up there.
Or the polar bears drowning because they can’t swim the now vast distances between ice floes.
Or the tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in South Asia.
Or Katrina and the devastation it brought to the Gulf Coast.
Mother Nature isn’t whispering to us; she’s yelling at us: Wake up!
But our President doesn’t want to hear it.
He has consistently downplayed the risks of global warming, and cast doubt on the science.
He prefers Stalinist science. He listens to modern-day Lysenkos, scientists who will parrot the Administration’s political line, regardless of the data.
He said abiding by Kyoto would destroy our economy. Which is false. Since there are plenty of green jobs to be had out there.
But not abiding by Kyoto will destroy the planet.
And that’s what Bush’s policies are doing.
At last, in his State of the Union address, Bush admitted that the United States is addicted to oil—and he knows a thing or two about addiction.
But rather than kick the habit, he keeps throwing an open bar for his friends in the oil industry.
He has consistently opposed the single most effective short-term remedy: and that’s raising fuel efficiency standards in cars, SUVs, and trucks. Right now, the U.S. fleet is below the mpg standards of 1985. We’re going in reverse.
He opposes a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, even though 80 percent of Americans, including 75 percent of Republicans, favor it.
ExxonMobil had $32 billion of profits last year, and its CEO, Lee Raymond, is getting a retirement package of $400 million. This is obscene! Especially when working people are sweating under the weight of $3 a gallon gas.
Bush has begun to talk about solar and wind power and geothermal power, but he barely has given it any funding.
For Bush, it’s just a line, it’s not a commitment.
Cheney, who is running the show, pooh-poohed conservation as a mere lifestyle choice. His energy report in the spring of 2001, written with the consultation of the oil companies themselves, assumes we’ll be as dependent on foreign fossil fuels two decades from now as we are today.
Earth day is annualy observed on 22nd April throughout the world to celebrate and honour planet earth , and it's natural environment.............
We can also take part in the earth day movement by using less electricity , and tap water, by using dustbins, using electronic vehicles etc.............
the earth day celebration can bring a visible change if we all choose to make actions towards a green world .........
Thank You....
Jai Hind,Jai Bharat........
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