Reflections on Earth Day 2021

This is Earth Week — the first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. I was only 13 years old at the time, and to be honest, I don’t even remember that first Earth Day. But somehow, its significance must have sunk into my psychic. The 1970’s were a time of heightened awareness of the environment, and all the problems that humanity was causing at that time. The main environmental issues of that day included air and water pollution, and endangered…