Earth Day.

Hello fellow beer drinkers as you may know earth day is this Sunday.  I thought it was only right to talk a little bit about earth day. The start of earth day actually started from a book. The book is Rachel Carson's New York Times best seller Silent Spring in 1962.  The book was about the impacts of pollution on living organisms. The official start of earth day started in 1970. The book sold 500,000 copies in more then 24 countries. The idea came from Gaylord Nelson who was a senator from Wisconsin. The reason that earth day is on April 22nd is because it is half way between spring break and final exams. The reason that it has to do with school because most of the people that were involved in the first earth day were students. 20 million Americans marched in parks, streets, and auditoriums to demonstrate the importance of keeping the world clean. It also achieved a rare political alignment because it brought  Democrats and Republicans together for a common good.

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