IN CASE you missed it, Tuesday of this week was Earth Day 2025.

The very first Earth Day was held in the US in 1970. An estimated 20 million Americans took to streets, parks and venues to demonstrate against the impacts of industrial development, which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts.

According to Earthday.org, which now promotes the annual event globally, “Groups that had been fighting individually against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness and the extinction of wildlife united on Earth Day around these shared common values.”

The declared 2025 theme is “Our power, our planet,” calling for people to educate, advocate and mobilise in communities around renewable energy “so we can triple clean electricity by 2030.”