Scientists Get Active — So Should We — Poster of the Week

Declare Independence From Oil

Rainforest Action Network; Global Exchange

Inkworks Press

Offset, Circa 2006

Berkeley, CA

44390

Today is the 52nd anniversary of the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took to the streets and attended teach-ins throughout the U.S. to learn about how human actions – and the corporate drive for profits – were destroying the environment.

The first Earth Day was organized in response to the disastrous Santa Barbara oil spill. What has happened in the decades since? Not enough!

We cannot continue business as usual.

Climate Change has become Climate Catastrophe. Existential changes are no longer theoretical. We can see the changes.