Comment from ROBIN MCKAY
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 am

BEUTIFULD COMMENT TOGEATHER WE CAN MAKE THIS A WHOLE NEW WORLD A BETTER WORLD

Comment from tre
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 am

love me love the earth!

Comment from bleeder guy
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am

Great history lesson and message of hope and commitment for the future.

Comment from Marty Ball
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 am

This is a beautiful video! I believe Earth Day started as "Ecology Day"-not sure, but I was in my senior year and we celebrated it. I made a 15-20 foot tall poster of the Statue of Liberty, with trash piled up almost to her hips, and she was looking down with tears on her face. Luckily, that hasn't happened, but if we keep pressing on to save Mother Earth, we all will be winners! We can't say:"let the next generation do it"- it has to be now. Too bad the oil companies and the politicians involved with them, couldn't have allowed the "alternate fuels" being invented back then, to blossom forth. Think how much better off we'd be today?

Comment from tre
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 am

let the healing begin! wink

Comment from Sharon
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:44 am

We've come a long way…still a long way to go. Thank you SO much for your work. Together we ARE making a significant difference!

Comment from Dianne
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am

This was a very profound video. My daughter and I are picking up trash for earth day and we already planted flowers. Sunflowers go in tommrow.

Comment from Doctor Toxic
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am

Thank you ED and thank you Fred Krupp for your hard work and determination. Happy Earth Day!

Comment from Sommer
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 am

Happy Earth Day! The video was a great reminder and inspiration. My four year old just watched it with me. Thanks for the determination and HOPE! I choose HOPE too!

Comment from Breah
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 am

I choose hope and action. A part of my action is peaceandloveforall.com, launching a call for everyone worldwide to make the Earth Pledge of Allegiance. Together we can do everything.

Comment from monica lidizzia
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 am

Congratulations for the video.
Hoping our dreams come true.
Thank you for your wonderful job.

Comment from Kathleen Dockett
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 am

Thank you ED and Fred for your tenacious efforts.

Please know that Psychology Students for Social Responsibility at the University of the District of Columbia chapter join in support of Earth Day goals. We are primarily students of color working for peace and social justice.

Comment from Wen
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am

Wonderful message! To quote Kevin Richardson - "Together we can make great things happen." I believe that! I do have hope for the future!

Comment from TreeHugger
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:11 am

What a fantastic message of HOPE. Happy Earth Day! Together WE can make a diffence!

Comment from Andrea
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:18 am

To look at what we have accomplished gives me hope for the future. However, it takes hard work from the grassroots and the need to bring our policy makers around to actually do the policy work to make this possibilty of hope a reality of action. I will call my legislators at the state and federal level today to demand their action.

Comment from Alan Wittbecker
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 am

Very well done. Of course there were two earth days in 1970, one on 20 March and one on 22 April. We exhibited in March, since we figured the April was a political show. In fact our first paying project was cleaning up after the April Earth Day. That's when I wondered if the holiday was doomed to become another New Year's resolution. Has it?

Comment from Gaenolee Johnson
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:52 am

Lovely message. Lets hope and work so we CAN save our lovely planet.

Comment from audrey
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 am

why when i wanted to see it is no longer avaliable? this is so mean. i wish so much that i can see it cause my dad said that it was really nice, lovely and sort of neat.

Comment from deborah
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am

Happy Earth Day!!!. I suggest for the next year, take the day off and go out have some meditation, don't use cars and electricity for one day!!!

Comment from eva walker
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am

beautiful video.earth day more important than ever now

Comment from Jeanne Zang
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 am

Great video. We all need to do our part in our personal lives. But also, PLEASE contact your Senator NOW and ask him or her to support the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191). We can't afford to waste any more time!
I love my planet. Let's keep it safe for future generations.

Comment from Naomi
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:05 am

This really is a beautiful video!

I hope for change all the time, but many times find myself overwhelmed, not knowing where to start to bring about large-scale, positive change. So, I do what little I can on a personal individual level, with the products I buy and the amount I use.

But I feel like that isn't enough. We need to get into action in other ways and now if we are to truly address global warming and the pollution of our environment.

I think there are a large number of people who feel this sense of hope and urgency, but in the end do nothing, because they don't know where to start.

So, where do we start?

How do we bring together these large numbers of people ready and willing to get into action, but needing a direction and plan?

Is it enough to call my state's legislators? I really don't know.

Comment from M.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 am

Love this heartwarming, moving video. Thanks for posting it, and pointing out all that's at stake if Global Warming's not stopped in its tracks now.

Comment from Lynne S.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am

Inspirational video. Thank you for all you do for our planet! I wish more people thought like us and did their part.

Comment from Lou
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:45 am

First the unhealthy social and political system must be destroyed. It is not working anymore and it has already started to die! So let, better help it die! The sooner the better!
And then we can rebuild the new world and have our hope!

Ride bikes or cars that run alternative fuels, do not fund dirty oil business anymore that is killing us all in the end.
Only we can make the change not the politicians who are just looking for their own profits!
And together we all have the power to bring the obsolete system down and we can regain our freedoms!

Comment from Chrissy
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:48 am

Hi! I wanted to say how happy I am to know that there are people out there like you who are trying to save the world for everybody. I have a deep love and respect for our Mother Nature and it breaks my heart to think that it could all be gone. I know what it feels like to be constantly looked at like I'm some weirdo just because I make people recycle or just because I'm not so materialized like a lot of other people here at Penn State. It saddens me to think that all the icecaps could be gone, and the animals that depend on them, if we do not do anything. We have to spread the word. So now I must Thank You for all the hard work you do. It's going to pay off in the end!

Happy Earth Day!

Comment from Anita Coppock
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 am

Read Schim Schimmelman's book A LETTER FROM MOTHER EARTH.
I am a teacher. I tell my students of all ages that we have only one address — EARTH. We each have our own part in keeping her healthy. After reading this book to them, I have them make a commitment to at least one thing that they can do for our planet every day. It is powerful! Then I have them write a letter to MOTHER EARTH about their commitment to her.
I have used this book with Kindergarten through my adult classes. The illlustrations are the best I've ever seen! The message is timeless..

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Comment from Regina
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 am

I am so happy Earth Day and the PA primary fall on the same day. It gives us pause to think about how important this issue is on the political platform of all of our candidates. I continue to communicate with all our politicians to keep the environmental issues ever before them. Thanks for all you do to educate us all and press the important issues!

Comment from Patricia Lewis
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 am

The video was short and to the point and I wish more people could see it, it was so well done. I am certainly going to pass it on. Let us HOPE that the next administration will be pro-active on the subject of Global Warming and Environment. Everyone on the planet has a part to play and a leader who is committed to the Environment is a real plus.

Comment from Maria
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 am

What a great, powerful, to the point video! Happy Earth Day! It's time for change & together, we can make a difference!

Comment from Marla
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 am

"I choose hope. I choose action." Let's all take at least one positive action today!

Comment from Frank Erickson
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am

Good video - - now it needs to be translated into as many languages as possible and put on YouTube.

Comment from Katherine Reed Piana
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am

Thank you for all that you do to make a difference in this world.
Happy Eath Day!
~Peace

P.S. Let's make Earth Day happen every day!

Comment from Brooke
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am

Thanks so much to the EDF for all your continued efforts to make it easier for us to find the issues and to act on them.
I suggest that part of celebrating our intimate connection with our rare and wonderful planetary home is making modifications in the way we use everyday resources. In this way, we respect future generations and can profoundly affect manufacturers. Corporations understand one thing: How you spend your money. Make an effort to support sustainable, green and socially responsible businesses in your area. Boycott products from companies with track records of abusing the Earth and her children. Re-cycle and reuse whenever possible. These slight changes in your actions will send the loudest possible message to the most grevious of offenders. In addition to becoming involved in legislation, both locally and nationally, becoming a conscious and conscientious consumer is also a way we can bring about rapid change.

Comment from Marvin Rothfusz
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am

Well done! It's one of few visuals that can be shared with all.
I would like to see more striking visuals for sharing with groups.
The Union of Concerned Scientists' map of global "Early Warning Sites…" is one such. Gore's Inconvenient Truth has a great graphic on the Greenhouse Effect. At a 2007 Minnesota Clean Energy conference I demonstrated the CO2 atmospheric impact of combusting one gallon of gas by inflating an 84-inch diameter balloon, and received excellent and positive feedback on it.
Are there other classroom-size visuals that focus on the real issue of concern: what's happening to our planet's ecology?

Comment from Martha
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 am

What a great video.

Please share it with your friends, family and colleagues. I'm passing it along with the tag-line, "Be kind to your mother".

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, the truth is we are all dependent on the health of our planet. We are the only species on the planet that can save or destroy it for all creatures. It's easy to see how dependent the polar bears, eagles and foxes are on the health of the earth, but humans are equally dependent.

We've simply become accustomed to deluding ourselves that we can do whatever we want and the earth will endlessly accomodate our "personal preferences". But the climate change we're now seeing makes it obvious that our time is running out - and we truly have no where else to go.

We CAN and MUST improve the health of our home planet. It will be the proudest, and most important actions of our species - or our failure to do so may be one of our last!

Comment from Gene LaVigne
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 am

Thank you for sharing this inspiration and for the work you do! Truly a mission we all need to be on and extremely well presented.

Comment from Danielle
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 am

Love our/your planet as you love yourself,and all living,MASSIVE amounts! If you don't love yourself/earth,then you better start NOW! Love this video and will be passing it on thanks environmental defense,and keep up the great job!

Comment from Maggie
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 am

Thank you Gaylord Nelson!
Live peace and think green.

Comment from KLayn
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 am

A message of Hope, and a positive force! Good to see the good people can do, as opposed to the devastation that you see every day.

Comment from greencleaner10
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:53 am

Happy Earth Day To All !
It is easy to start :
Save Energy
Recycle
Support businesses who are Green or trying to be green.
Thank you, Great video.
www.eldoradocleaners.net

Comment from Becky
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 am

What a great video. Had all my daycare children watch it. They wanted more. Thank you some much for the wonderful video. HAPPY BIRTHDAY everyone. Do your part recycle reuse.

Comment from Diana
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am

This Earth Day,there is one small thing we can all do for the Planet we love. Go to http://heartmath.com/millionhearts/? If we all do, it will become a big thing.

Comment from Lester G. Milroy III
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 am

This is a wonderful video. It address the many wonderful things that can be done to protect our planet. We also need to address the world population as a critical matter. The carrying capacity of the planet for human populations is rapidly approaching and is a root factor in the crisis of global warming and the demand of resources. Earth Day should also incorporate this factor because it is a major factor on how we live. The 3Rs is a must and identifying critical habitats and protecting them is crucial. Do your part and be an answer to this problem.

Comment from Jackie
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 am

Great video and I hope it inspires more people to do more to help the earth. Some of the things I've started doing this year are:
1)Buy reuseable grocery bags & keep them in my trunk and use them (almost!) every shopping trip!
2)Park my car & walk in to school to pick up my kids instead of idling in the drive thru line.
3)Replace regular bulbs with CFL's.
4)Use a water filtration system to cut down on buying bottled water.
One person can make a difference and I'd love to hear what other people are doing to help save the earth!

Comment from Aliaa Abdel-Gawad
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 am

Hope! Definitely! At times, it can become overwhelming; therefore, I thank you for this fabulous and inspiring message. I do have concerns about India and China (it is said that if they proceed with their plans [coal plants, etc], all of our advances will be moot). Granted, WE MUST do all that we can because we are citizens of this beautiful planet, and it's a responsibility (one that I welcome and want); however, I really hope that you are communicating with and have a plan about India and China. THANK YOU and HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!!

Comment from Barbara Joy
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm

My best energy-saving tip: keep bottles of ice in the freezer & transfer some to the fridge to fill up empty space & make the "ice box" run more efficiently.

Comment from Prem
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Thank you for such an inspiring video. It was great to see the forest that almost died from acid rain revived and to see how our American eagle was saved from the environmental disaster known as DDT. Let's work hard to make sure that the Polar Bears will have larger icebergs to live on in 10 years. Thank you for all of your dedication to saving our Home, Mother Earth.

Comment from Mickey Richardson
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Looking back over the past 38 years, we have come to realize that all of our past environmental problems have had accompanying solutions, for which we have acted on with tremendous success. For the next 38 years, let us continue this successful problem solving approach.

Comment from Ava Turner
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

That is a beautiful video. "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof". Let's take good care of it.

Comment from shahrokh mehrpisheh
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm

I pray for you , think green and live green

Comment from Joan Schinkel
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Unless people start voting, and voting smart, we will never win. Stop voting for the incumbents and start voting for people who care and will listen to us. We the People….

Comment from SUZANNE BALDINI
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Thanks for the great video. I hope we can keep the enthusiasm that seems to be being rekindled in the public Some of us have been Earth Day celebrators and recyclers and ecology conscious since 1970. It's great to see more and more people becoming involved again. Let's keep this issue in the forefront where it belongs. Thanks again, and Keep up the Good Work.

Comment from Erik Degrait
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Why is it so cold at the end of April? Global warming is the biggest SCAM set upon us and is costing us money and our freedom. How much money Al Gore and company have to make and power to accumulate before they are satisfied. There are people starving all over the world and we are making fuel out of a food staple, maybe these people don't matter as long as there is money to be made. Wake up people, there is no global warming. Ignorance is very expensive. Oh, by the way, there is only 6% of the total land mass that is developed in these United States of America that I love so much. Helloooo.

Comment from Leigha
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Thanks for sharing!

Comment from Justin Brown
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm

I think that a change is in order. The world is not about drink,drugs,war,crime etc. It is beatiful place we need to look after. Now bear that in mind.

Comment from Sami Carroccio
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Thank you for the video! I really hope people know that it isn't too late and everything we do does make a huge impact on not only future generations but the animals, as well.

Comment from Aardwolf
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Global warming, if it does exist at all, is happenning so slowly that the world would not be in any danger until after Jesus returns.

Comment from macdoodle
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm

hey anyone notice those votes for war
also cut all the park/ fed preserves funding?
also cut all the disbeld program and housing fro disbaled and homless shelters
…. and more people are living in the parks.
how about it camping fro the rest of your life.
and no more birdies and squirrels unless they are fro stew.

thanks bush and the cheney gang
thanks clinton and all th e rest who voted fro the oil wars

destroying america one disasterous policy at a time.

if we dont take america back this nov will there be one to take back in 2012?

Comment from Joan
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Start paying attention to China, not only is that country, who by the way, could never feed her population, and all of a sudden the United States is getting food processed by them! Better check into that countries serious use of 19th century technology, and their use of coal, DDT, killing, polluting, and invading countries north of Iraq, which they are sending Chinese over to farm. We are breathing in 31% of smog due to China. Their refusal, and our helping them out, not to use 21st century production methods have led to their continuous contamination of the water, skies and ground, all of which find their poisonous ways to other countries. Check it out, they kill their own people faster than they birth them.

Comment from kyle
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm

I've watched a lot of environmental movies and shorts during the last year. Everything's Cool, The 11th Hour, An Inconvenient Truth and a score of videos like this. I've read nearly every mainstream book on the subject of global warming, peak oil, and environmental degradation.

Why is everyone afraid to mention capitalism? Our environmental problems are not a series of problem/solution scenarios. They can not be solved by voting in the right politician or passing the right laws. Our problems are institutional, they are systemic of our civilization. They are tied to a mindset that refuses to acknowledge limits. They are tied to racist and sexist hierarchies. Who will benefit from all these pieces of green technology? Poor urban people of color? Poor rural white people? Victims of ongoing genocide on reservation lands? Exploited third world workers and indigenous people? I think not.

Capitalism is not and can never be made sustainable. A way of life based on continuous growth cannot last on a finite planet. We’ve known this all along…and frankly it's getting embarrassing to say.

Why are we so afraid to talk about this?

This movement doesn't need anymore tax deductible donations. This movement doesn't need anymore people to act as sign posts. This movement doesn't need any more petitions or letter writing campaigns. Today is the 38th Earth Day and we're closer now to ecological apocalypse than ever before. What this movement needs is a little heart, dedication, and passion. More than anything, it needs action. People need to take the destruction of the earth more personally. It is, after all, a matter of life and death.

Comment from Cody
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

It feels good to see so many replies…

To all of you who make the small decisions throughout the day to become a more efficient, less pollutant person, THANK YOU.

I have hope that our children may live better lives…

EVERYONE KEEP IT UP, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Comment from Donna
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Thank you so much for such an inspired, heartfelt video!!
I think Fred should run on a ticket with Al Gore!! Loving male energy!
It was fun to see the pictures of New York on Earth Day. I was there on the 1970's too!

Comment from Kelly
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Well said.

Comment from rosi
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Lovely video!

Comment from Bonnie
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm

With everything we say or do, we need to think about how it will affect others. Not just today or tomorrow or next year, but for seven generations. We can do this. There is hope for a better future. Thank you!

Comment from Esther
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm

People should not be discouraged if they can't contact a bunch of people to pass the word along. I remember a song many years ago that went "Give me ten men who are stout hearted men and I'll soon give you ten thousand more." So if each one of us just reaches ten others it gets that same build up. I try. So lets all do it!

Comment from Aardvark
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Hey, Kyle, you are psychotic. First of all, what does anti- capitalism have to do with earth day? Second, why are you preaching communism at all? Communism is SICK and WRONG! I'm sorry, but free enterprise is right. Communism is extremely undeniably abominable, repulsive, ungodly, and unholy.

This message is being relayed to Kyle and anyone else who shares his views and visits this webpage.

Comment from Sheryl Skoglund
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Thank you for the video. The people want the changes, this is a democracy, what is the problem?

Comment from simone de camargo
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Experience is not what happens to us but what we do with what happens to us!

Comment from mire
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm

Just wanted to share on this Earth Day an easy way to give towards Environmental Defense Fund by way of shopping… It's so easy just go to www.nonprofitshoppingmall.com and choose Environmental Defense Fund as your nonprofit then you can choose to shop the GREEN stores to double your earth purchasing power. A percent of your sale will go to EDF and you will be supporting GREEN companies how awesome is that?!!!

Comment from Maria
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Thank you for all that you do, ED! We CAN make a difference for our beautiful planet - for nature and for all living creatures — if we all do our part to protect, preserve and respect it. Keep up the great work!

Comment from Dan Wagner
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm

Very Good video and message, we can all do a little bit more
and collectively make things a lot better for our children and the environment. For Years we have all taken from the Earth and Ocean, it is time for all of us to 'Give Back'.

Comment from Leilani Brandon
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Wonderful video that brings back memories of the first Earth Day I celebrated as a sophomore at San Diego State. Haven't let up since, but can do more. I am a 4th grade teacher and my class has decided to recycle aluminum cans at our school. We all can help…just do SOMETHING. The video made me cry…Thank you.

Comment from Rachel luvs da earth
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:13 pm

WAY TO GO FRED! i HAVE FAITH!!!!!! wHEN i SAID HAPPY EARTH DAY TO SOME PEOPLE THEY THOUGHT I WAS SAYING HAPPY BIRTHDAY! LOL! gO gREEN! AND vEGAN! yAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment from Rachel luvs da earth
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm

SO ANYONE KNOW ANY FUNNY WEBSITES? IM BORED!

Comment from david
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm

I hope that people understand what is happening to the world today. This was a very informative video that should have touched most people. I hope the would changes for the better!!

Comment from Mari
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Inspirational. Well done. Let's get to work.

Comment from kyle
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm

ardvark, this is the trouble with forums like this. You had some kind of emotional response to what I said that was not rooted in my arguments. I said capitalism is not sustainable. It isn't.

You assume that if I critique capitalism, this automatically makes me a communist. I'm certainly not a communist. Please read what I write, not what you think.

Comment from CARLOS JAMES
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 pm

I hope that people understand what is happening to the world today. This was a very informative video that should have touched most people. I hope the would changes for the better, cuz a master is not what get but what you become….carlos james

Comment from Dhaivat
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 am

Wonderful video that brings back memories of the first Earth Day. Help beauty tree and help beauty animal and bird.

Comment from Andrew Fisher
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am

Saving World Civilization at Worth One Sixth of the Military Budget or $190 Billion Annually1

Below is described – with references for further research – an urgently needed plan for change. This will address ALL of the following issues:
• The Iraq war
• Can stop all future terrorism and suicide bomb threats with little or no military expense
• The economy – by creating many new and needed jobs
• Immigration
• Global warming with both more violent storms and potential rising seas
• Rising food prices and starvation in developing countries
• The growing world population – particularly in developing countries
• Poverty
• Education
• Air pollution and asthma in many cities
• Falling water tables
• Deforestation of tropical rain forests.
• Loss of farming topsoil
• Depleted ocean fisheries
• Dead zones at the mouths of polluted rivers
Effective Permanent Solutions
Almost always, preventative solutions with find and treat the root causes of any problem are both cheaper and last permanently. An excellent analogy to the terrorist threat and the current military “brute force” attempts at a solution, is the current mainstream medicine approach to most diseases and symptoms by (1) assuming every patient is the same, and (2) prescribing the same (usually quite expensive) symptom suppressing pharmaceutical drug for it. This “band aid” approach does not work and usually the patient comes back later with even more, worse symptoms.

Continuing the medical analogy, a cheap and effective solution is the Clinical Ecology approach pioneered by Theron Randolph, MD. In his “ecological unit” all the air and water was filtered, and you initially fast for four days. Then many foods and/or chemicals are individually tested until the one(s) each unique patient is sensitive to are identified and totally avoided. Many of Dr. Randolph’s patients were sent to him world wide by traditional doctors who could not cure them. Once all of them were tested and their individual food and chemical sensitivities were discovered, as long as the patient completely avoided these foods and chemicals and carefully followed the “rotation diet”, their symptoms permanently disappeared! 2

The root causes of terrorism are many, but basically we should improve the living conditions in the developing countries where suicide bombers are recruited from the many young people with no hope for a better future. The prime cause of this poverty and despair is population growth with a limited amount of food, shelter, education, and healthcare resources for increasing numbers of people. With the current environmental situation, many of the negative threats listed below all feed on each other in a downward negative spiral. Once population is stabilized, education, jobs and healthcare are given, and most of the ecological earth restoration acts listed below taken for all these developing countries, with positive feedback they will see future hope and terrorism will disappear with little or no military expense!

Threats to Civilization
All of the following are current threats to our current world civilization: (1) deteriorating governments with increased violence, terrorism, the growing threat that a terrorist group could gain control of nuclear weapons, and/or all out nuclear war; (2) global warming with its climate change, increased violent storms, and eventual rising sea level which would create millions more immigrants and refugees; (3) permanent soil loss from over grazing, over farming, and from clear cutting forests which all cause devastating floods and mudslides; (4) falling water tables leaving many villages without water and many farmers without irrigation; (5) air pollution causing asthma and illness in many cities; (6) rising food cost and child starvation as more corn is used for ethanol and other biofuels; (7) disappearing tropical rain forests (which sequester CO2, retain water for agriculture, and are huge ecosystems with great biodiversity) from logging, clearing for farmland and/or firewood, and, as more roads are built through them, are slowly drying out and they can much more easily burn from lightning; (8) over fishing until many aquatic creatures are almost extinct.; and (9) dead zones at the mouths of polluted rivers.

Traditionally, most countries have faced threats from another state, or – more recently – terrorism and suicide bombers, with a large buildup and/or use of military force. This may have worked in the past, but it no longer can deal with the large and growing threat of terrorism, suicide bombers, and global warming. No matter how much we spend on beefing up the Departments of Defense or Homeland Security, it is increasingly easy for individuals to sneak small bombs in, or for suicide bombers to kill soldiers in Iraq.

We Must All Act Now
Regarding global warming, only a couple of years ago scientists predicted that Greenland, Antarctica, and several large Himalayan glaciers which feed the main rivers in India and China, would not be at the tipping point of permanently melting for at least twenty to fifty more years. However, more recent studies show that this tipping point is a lot closer – only eight to twelve years away! Suppose these scientists are still too conservative, and the tipping point is only two to five years away!

The world is so interdependent we have to apply this mobilization in ALL nations. First of all, we have to get the economy to HONESTLY INCLUDE THE ECOLOGICAL COSTS of everything. This would include taxing the destructive activities such as burning coal and oil for heat, electricity, or to run cars. These tax increases will be accompanied by simulations cuts in income tax. All these should be phased in over five to twelve years. Tax credits should be given for wind turbines, solar panels for hot water and photovoltaic ones for electricity, and Leadership in Environmental and Ecological Design (LEED) buildings with natural light, good insulation and/or geothermal heating. Manufacturing biofuels from switchgrass, trees and other non-edible organic material (instead of corn) will stop the rising price of food with the child starvation, by unlinking it from the rising cost of oil. Once this ecologically honest market properly reflects the true costs – which would (by 2020) put gasoline at about $12 per gallon – people will act accordingly.

Cities have to be designed for people, not cars. Cars should either be totally banned from urban centers or highly taxed. Many more busses and mass transit trains should be added and/or improved. This cuts wasteful, time-consuming congestion and cleans the air. With the remaining cars as plug-in hybrids which can charge up overnight from wind turbines, short errands of less than 20 miles won’t emit any CO2 at all! More sidewalks and bike lanes encourage more biking and walking – which will help the obesity situation. Former parking lots should be turned into attractive green parks with trees.

Over longer distances, we should build many more electric freight lines (instead of diesel trucks), and high speed passenger trains like those in Japan and Europe. The recent FAA bungle with American Airlines stranding thousands of passengers plus the rising price of oil and future air ticket prices should show the great need for much more efficient high speed trains in the US.

Many may ask, can we make these radical changes here in the US so fast? Have we ever done it before? The answer is YES. After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the US into World War II, many such changes were made. Former auto plants were converted into war factories and not a single car was made for over two years! Mobilizing again now – in 2008 – will create many needed new jobs.

Basic Social Goals Annual Cost in billions Universal primary education 10
Adult Education 4
School lunches for 44 poorest countries 6
Assist preschool children & pregnant
women in 44 poorest countries 4
Reproductive healthcare & Family Planning 17
Closing the Condom gap 3
Universal Basic Healthcare 33
Total 77

Earth Restoration Goals Annual Cost in billions
Planting trees for soil & flood control 6
Planting trees to sequester carbon 20
Protecting topsoil on cropland 24
Restoring Rangeland 9
Restoring fisheries 13
Protecting Biological Diversity 31
Stabilizing Water Tables 10
Total 113
Grand total: 190 billion annually to meet social needs and to restore the earth

This is only one sixth of what all the countries spent in 2006 on potentially destructive military guns, tanks, bombs, missiles and more. Isn’t eliminating terrorism and restoring the earth worth this?

1 Many figures and much of this information come from "Plan B 3.0 – Mobilizing to Save Civilization" by Lester R. Grown, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.

2 "An Alternative Approach to Allergies" by Theron G. Randolph, MD and Ralph W. Moss, PhD, Lippincott & Crowell, 1980.

Comment from Dana
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 am

Happy Earth Week! We are changing the world. It CAN be done!

Everyone can help. A little from each one of us makes a BIG difference in the grand scheme of things.

Attitude is EVERYTHING! So, don't worry, be happy and do whatever it takes to do your part.

Comment from Ray Osborne
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:24 am

Yes indeed this is a feel good video, evident by
the comments left.

But Earth day is everyday! We cannot afford just to observe
sustainability one day out of the whole year but rather we
need to look at our actions and reducing our carbon footprint
every day of the year. Each individual is responsible, every
day, of every year with every effort. Either you are part of
the solution or you are part of the problem, it is that simple.

Comment from Joni
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 am

Happy Earth Day!
I hope that people understand what is happening to the world today.Togeather we can make this whole new world a better world.
Happy Earth Day!

Comment from John Dollins
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm

I thought this was a very good and hopfull video.

Comment from pam
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm

it's good but it needs to be more enthusiastic so non- earth supporters will be motivated to do something.

Comment from Lili Song
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm

I quite share the urgent feeling of protecing our mother earth for our human being and our future generations.

Comment from Pam Montroy
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm

Thank you everyone for caring about our planet earth and all of the beauty that is a part of it. Everyone's kindness to our planet gives me hope. Rather than shed a tear, I raise a smile. Let's continue to work together, to fight together to preserve that which doesn't have a voice.

Comment from kazal
April 24th, 2008 at 4:02 am

Dear Friend

Im am from Bangladesh. Thank you for good video. Really I would like to see my world with beauty.Stop environmental violence and save my world and future generation.Happy Earth Day.
Ahidul Islam Kazal
Participatory Development Specialist
Bangladesh

Comment from Octavio Arana Rodríguez
April 24th, 2008 at 10:54 am

That beautiful video. He(she) makes us think cuan importantly it is our planet and what we must do to support it as source(fountain) of life. The beauty of the nature cannot be compared with anything and for her(it) so much we are the only ones that her(it) we prune to support such and since it(he,she) is. This demands a capture of conscience and to lead to end actions decided to assure our existence.

Comment from Erik Degrait
April 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Thank you Joan, you are on the money about China. Oh by the way, they are drilling for oil together with Cuba 40 miles of the Florida coast but we may not. I am amazed to read such ignorance as it is written here and some of of it by educators. May God save our children from them. Folks, man can not cause global warming, we are not that significant. It all has to do with the activity of the sun. Please educate yourself because ignorance is not a bliss, unless you are afraid to be proven wrong or it does not fit your agenda. It is a fact the we are in a long term cooling trend, but like a stock chart it goes up and down, short term up long term down. Some see the short term upward trend as an opportunity to cash in it so GREEN fits the bill. Now, pollution is a horse of a different color, it pains me to to see our Earth filled with smog, garbage, poisons, polluted waters and so on. I desperately want to have my grand children inherit a cleaner environment than I did and I have every reason to believe they will and no thanks to the tree huggers but to technology. I remember looking over the East River into Manhattan which was shrouded with a dome of smog but I don't see it now. What happened? Technology happened. To push back the frontiers of ignorance, please Google, Al Gore + Fraud + Scam + Lawsuit or any combination there of. Happy reading to some of us. God Bless America.
PS. Joan, you forgot Russia.

Comment from Erik Degrait
April 24th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

To Andrew Fisher,
Were you dropped on your head at birth? No socialist liberal (same as communist)is going to take my car away. Your comment is much too stupid, ignorant, uninformed, made up, wishy washy, intrusive, freedom depriving, full of BS and not to mention LOOOOOONG. Brain is a terrible thing to waste. Get a life, cause you're not getting my car.

Comment from steven
April 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

hey all, and happy earth day. yes its great to see concern for our planet but at the same time i guess ignorance is bliss. the fact is yes we sholud all be doing somthing to better our planet yes we should conserve fuel and come up with better energy technologies, but however the whole global warming thing?? cmon people global warming is just one of many propaganda type ploys to get all our stupid little brains from seeing and understanding what really is going on here, the fact is our great nation is collapsing around us and its being done by politicians who line their pockets with our hard earned money our society has become so disconected from reality nobody even knows what to belive anymore and thats exactly the way the "owners" of this country want it and when i say owners, i mean the oil giants, the bush family and the other million corporate giants who profit billions every day on our stupidity!!!!! wake up people gas is 3.80 per gallon not because there is a shortage , its because the american dollar isnt worth anything anymore as far as the rest of the world is concerened. we have been writing the entire planet i.o.u's for decades..
the people of this country need to wake up, turn off your television's and stop beliving everything politicians in suits tell us to belive!! what people really need to do is somthing that hasnt been done in a very long time in this country and that is stand up band together by the millions and stomp on washington and thats when you will see things change,,we live in a country where the political system and federal government is "completely" broken!!! and to say just one more thing , a true democracy only works corectly when the government "fears" its people, not when the people fear the government the phrase "we the people" was lost a very long time ago…

Comment from mookie
April 26th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! LETS SAVE THE AIR WE BREATH AND THE WATER WE DRINK. THE U.S.A. NEEDS TO PICK UP THE ENVIRONMENTAL BALL AND GET IN THE GAME!!

Comment from richard
April 27th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Oh Eric, Eric Degait - you need to diversify our reading. The roster of writings that argue for the sun as the sole cause of global warming is embarrassingly narrow. The other 99% of those writing on this subject, including those who don't think global warming is happening, entirely reject the "blame the sun" thesis.

Technology has happened, true, and that's part of what helped the New York skyline, but a lot of it is simply that the polluting industries got moved away from the expensive sea-coast real estate in New York and similar places. Some of it went to the Midwest and the American south, but a lot more went overseas. Watch the Olympics closely this summer to see where that NY smog went, along with all the associated jobs.

A good movie to watch about this is Manufactured Landscapes, which is simply about how things look - it's not political at all.