JAKARTA, KalderaNews.com – Hari Bumi Sedunia atau Earth Day dirayakan tiap tanggal 22 April. Tahun ini, Hari Bumi Internasional jatuh pada Kamis, 22 April 2021. Tema Earth Day 2021 adalah “Restore Our Earth”.
Hari Bumi menandai hari lahirnya gerakan lingkungan modern pada 1970. “Hari Bumi pada 1970 lalu menyuarakan kesadaran publik yang muncul tentang keadaan planet kita,” tulis laman resmi Earth Day.
Hari Bumi pertama kali dicanangkan pengajar lingkungan Amerika Serikat, Gaylord Nelson pada 1970. Hari Bumi dimulai pada tahun 1970-an, kala Amerika Serikat sedang mengalami gejolak ekonomi dan politik.
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Berikut ini kutipan menarik untuk merayakan Hari Bumi yang bisa kamu bagikan melalui media sosial:
- The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. (Paus Yohanes Paulus II)
- The earth is enough for seven generations, but it will never be enough for seven people greedy. (Magatma Gandhi)
- We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. (Native American Proverb)
- The earth does not belongs to us, we belongs to earth. (Chief Seattle)
- The earth has a skin and that skin has disease, one of its disease is called man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. (Albert Enstein)
- The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us. (Margaret Atwood)
- A nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. (Evo Morales)
- This land, this water, this air, this planet – this is our legacy to our young. (Paul Tsongas)
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