Earth day 2024, today, Monday 22 April, the international event, now in its 54th edition, dedicated to our Planet and the environment, is celebrated across the globe. Objective, to promote natural resources and the protection of the globe. In the 1970 the first Earth Day, from an idea by the American activist John McConnell, and in this third millennium the need to reflect on the problems of the round giant.
Earth Day 2024: resources, pollution and ecosystem. An opportunity to reflect
From the pollution of the air toexhaustion of non-renewable resources. Without forgetting the destruction of ecosystems andextinction of different animal species. Earth Day 2024, celebrated by almost 200 countries around the world, is a precious opportunity for reflection and understanding on the many issues that afflict our planet.
Earth Day 2024, man and his actions: how to understand the effects of the impact
Is called ecological footprint and it is one of the most used ways to calculate the effect of human activities on planet Earth. Developed in the mid-90s by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees at the University of British Columbia, it is a sustainability indicator which allows you to measure the impact of products, services, companies and countries on the environment. In summary, an international metric to evaluate the relationship between how much man consumes and how much the Earth is capable of regenerating.
When man consumes too much, ecological deficit and the "default" of resources
If humans consume more resources than the Earth can support, we have a ecological deficit. Here, then, is theEarth Overshoot Day, the day on which a country has exhausted the resources available for an entire year. The parameters for evaluating the ecological footprint are certainly different. Such as, for example, the consumption of food products of animal origin and the indicators relating to consumption in one's home, together with those linked to means of travel.
From 1970 to 2024, initiatives around the world
In over fifty years of celebrations, there have been many events carried out on all continents and obviously also in Italy, on the occasion of every Earth Day. And this 2024 certainly doesn't seem any different, given the rich panorama of events, which can also be consulted online: from concerts for the Earth to educational workshops for children, up to official celebrations, from north to south of the country.
