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Religions > Atheism |
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"J Young" |
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04 Jul 2005 01:31:33 AM |
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Founder of Earth Day dies |
Founder of Earth Day dies
Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. politician who founded Earth Day 35 years ago
and helped create the modern environmental movement, has died.
Nelson, who was a former governor and U.S. Democratic senator from
Wisconsin, died of cardiovascular failure on Sunday at his home near
Washington at age 89.
A conservationist long before it became fashionable, Nelson's
achievements included helping to create hundreds of thousands of
hectares of protected wetlands and parks in Wisconsin. As a senator, he
backed federal legislation that preserved the 3,380-kilometre
Appalachian Trail.
Nelson was best-known, however, for starting Earth Day, which attracted
about 20 million participants when it debuted on April 22, 1970.
The day continues to be celebrated around the world, as people clean up
trash, plant trees and hold events to raise environmental awareness.
In 1995, 15 years after Nelson left office, he was given the
Presidential Medal of Freedom for his environmental contributions by
then-president Bill Clinton.
"As the father of Earth Day, he is the grandfather of all that grew out
of that event: the Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Act, the
Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act," Clinton said in a
statement at the time.
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| User: "Bill Bonde by a commodius vicus of" |
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| Title: Re: Founder of Earth Day dies |
04 Jul 2005 01:37:24 AM |
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J Young wrote:
Founder of Earth Day dies
Is this like when Euell Gibbons died after getting a fir tree branch
stuck in his windpipe?
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"What do you value in your bulldogs? Gripping, is it not? It's their
nature? It's why you breed them? It's so with men. I will not give in
because I oppose it. Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any other of my
appetites, but *I* do. Is there in the midst of all this muscle no
single sinew that serves no appetite of Norfolk's but is just Norfolk?
Give that some exercise. Because, as you stand, you'll go before your
Maker ill-conditioned. He'll think that somewhere along your pedigree, a
***** got over the wall."
-+Paul Scofield, "A Man For All Seasons"
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