Earth Day (April 22) each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.



Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda. "
"It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked."



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