Social justice was once at the core of the environmental movement.
This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.“Earth Day is so tame nowadays,” says Rome, the author of“For adults, it's often a trade show where you can see the latest green stuff, and for kids it's often a day with some corporate-sponsored lesson about what you can do individually to save the planet.
For better or worse, Earth Day is the closest that the modern environmental movement has to a birthday: a time to celebrate milestones, to look back and plot a way forward. And as Earth Day has morphed since its inception, this year promises to be radically different. The The scale of the organizing effort involved in the first Earth Day was massive, but Earth Day didn’t happen in a vacuum. The year 1970 came after a tumultuous decade of social upheaval and change, with the Vietnam War mobilizing thousands of young people to speak out; second-wave feminism bringing women out of the home and into the workforce; and the civil rights movement providing a model for what a nationwide environmental organizing effort could look like.
It may seem now as though community-based organizations like UPROSE, which started organizing around climate justice in the early 2000s, would be the natural heirs to the grassroots organizers behind the early Earth Day movement.
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