{"id":50675,"date":"2024-04-22T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T02:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finca.org\/?p=50675"},"modified":"2024-04-22T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T02:31:54","slug":"the-impact-of-sustainability-on-poverty-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finca.org\/en-ca\/the-impact-of-sustainability-on-poverty-reduction","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Sustainability on Poverty Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earth Day falls every year on April 22 and aims to diversify, educate, and activate the world in the fight to protect our environment. With rising global temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, and decreasing amounts of arable land, there is an increasing urgency to spread awareness and mobilize action to mitigate and even reverse human impact on the environment. Acknowledging the importance of environmental issues is also increasingly important in the fight against poverty, as those with the least money are often the most affected by environmental changes and disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The History of Earth Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first Earth Day was held in 1970, starting on college campuses and sparking attention that spread outward into communities across the US. At the time, the public had only begun to realize the impact of industrialization and pollution on the environment and, consequently, human health. Earth Day unified many activists who had previously been fighting individually for specific environmental causes.\u00a0Over 20 million Americans\u201410% of the total population\u2014participated in that first Earth Day, attending protests and rallies.\u00a0This demonstration of support led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency that same year and numerous laws aimed to protect the environment and human health. Years later, in 1990, the creators of Earth Day decided to take the movement global, mobilizing more than 200 million people worldwide and bringing environmental issues to the world stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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