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Wed Apr 21, 2021, 02:16 PM Apr 2021

Climate action offers a better life at lower cost

By The Herald Editorial Board

For the second time since its 50th anniversary last year, Earth Day will be marked Thursday without the typical large public gatherings and demonstrations; no banners unfurled, no speeches to gathered crowds; even as hopes rise that the covid pandemic will wane as vaccinations rise.

Except for a few smaller-scale — yet still important — volunteer cleanup events on beaches, in parks and in communities, much of Earth Day 2021 is again online, with remote meet-ups that attempt to keep the message going regarding the importance of efforts to heal the environment, save threatened and endangered species and slow the march of climate change and its looming catastrophes.

Yet, maybe that helps to make the point that Earth Day can’t be a one-day public event; instead it’s an everyday commitment each can make to reduce adverse impacts on the environment, and practice and support efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our own lives, personally and collectively.

And it’s a message — after four years of inaction, backsliding and a lack of international leadership on these issues at the federal level — that is all the more imperative as time ticks away for our actions to have sufficient chance to limit the worst of consequences that are more than barreling down on us but have in many ways already arrived.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-climate-action-offers-a-better-life-at-lower-cost/

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