John Oppermann, the Earth Day Initiative’s Executive Director, answered some questions about the organization he leads.
Over the last two years or so, the focal point for us humans has frequently, if not mostly, been the pandemic and necessarily so. Climate change, our over-reliance on fossil fuels, the pollution of soil, air, and water, overdevelopment and overpopulation — among other problems — have not gone away though. While Earth Day might not seem as pressing in an immediate sense compared with the pandemic, it’s just as important as ever.
in 2020 as the world shut down due to COVID. We partnered with March for Science NYC on the virtual livestream broadcast hosting a wide range of experts, activists, and prominent people to continue the climate conversation around the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The message we have emphasized the last two years and with this spring’s virtual stage is that we don’t have the luxury of dealing with one crisis at a time.
The climate crisis is really our most pressing challenge and we’re far behind in taking action to address it. One of the most impactful things you can do is be a climate communicator. There is what some have termed a “spiral of silence” around climate change in which a majority of people support robust climate action, but because people don’t talk about it we don’t realize how widespread support for climate action is.
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