{"id":386,"date":"2026-06-21T05:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:07:46","slug":"this-week-in-nation-history-time-to-return-earth-day-to-its-radical-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: Time to Return Earth Day to its Radical Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul><li>Environment<\/li><li>April 23, 2014<\/li><\/ul><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: Time to Return Earth Day to its Radical Origins<\/h1><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: Time to Return Earth Day to its Radical Origins<\/h1><h2><p>The most important day to advocate for the Earth is not April 22nd, but April 23rd.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=383\">Lessons From the People\u2019s Historian, Howard Zinn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>April 23, 2014<\/time>\n<div>\n<p>Two years ago, Mark Hertsgaard argued in <em>The Nation<\/em> that \u201cinstead of rallying public pressure for far-reaching reforms, Earth Day is becoming, at least in the United States, a bland, tired ritual that polluters and politicians have learned to ignore or co-opt.\u201d He proposed that an effort to \u201csave Earth Day\u201d should be focused on returning the day to its radical origins:\t\t\t\t\n<blockquote>\n<p>Frustrated by such cynicism, some environmentalists have called for abolishing Earth Day. But that would be throwing the baby out with the polluted bathwater. Instead, why not recall the real history of Earth Day and revive its original\u2014and much more demanding\u2014vision?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Little remembered today is the fact that even the first Earth Day itself, back in April 1970, occurred amidst vigorous internal debate among environmentalists as to whether it represented a genuinely promising burst of ecological consciousness or was merely a crafty diversion on the part of an establishment eager to redirect the energies of young activists away from the more pressing, more sensitive issues of race, poverty and the Vietnam War. In , the Chicago-based journalist Raymond R. Coffey examined how students and professors active at the University of Michigan\u2019s \u201cteach-in on the environment\u201d that March\u2014the precursor to the first official Earth Day the following month\u2014were deeply conflicted about how quickly mainstream politicians acted to co-opt their event.\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ecology has become a very important issue on campuses this season, and this teach-in was the forerunner\u2014a kind of model\u2014for thousands of college and high school colloquia to be held on April 22, dubbed \u201cEarth Day\u201d by the sponsors. The beleaguered environment is the kind of issue, some think, that might capture the idealistic spirit and the concern of young people as did the Peace Corps and Vietnam\u2026.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The attractiveness of environment as a political issue is fairly obvious. An uncompromising stand against dirty air and for clean water should win votes, and hardly hits the same mark on the controversy scale as does taking a strong position on Vietnam.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coffey then quoted several Michigan students who noted that it was precisely the issue\u2019s attractiveness to politicians which ought to given environmental advocates pause.\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m uneasy about why we\u2019re here,\u201d [James] Shapiro, a new hero of the New Left told the crowd of 15,000. \u201cI think maybe we\u2019re here to waste our time. I think some people want us to divert our energy\u2026to forget there is a criminal war going on in Vietnam\u2026to forget that 50 million people in a country that put a man on the moon don\u2019t have enough to eat.\u201d \u2026\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>The Banality of Peter Thiel\u2019s Evil<\/span>\n\n                The Banality of Peter Thiel\u2019s Evil\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nChris Lehmann <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>The American Fantasy of Cuba<\/span>\n\n                The American Fantasy of Cuba\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJafari Sinclaire Allen <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>2 FIFA Rulings on Israel, 1 Familiar Deference to MAGA<\/span>\n\n                2 FIFA Rulings on Israel, 1 Familiar Deference to MAGA\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJules Boykoff<span> and <\/span>Dave Zirin <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Trump Staffers Claim to Be Shocked That He Sexualized Ivanka<\/span>\n\n                Trump Staffers Claim to Be Shocked That He Sexualized Ivanka\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJoan Walsh <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Barry Bluestone, a graduate student in economics and a veteran of political movements on the Michigan campus, told a reporter that he believes leaders in the political and industrial establishment are deliberately pushing the environment issue \u201cto take some of the force out of the anti-war, anti-racism, anti-poverty issues.\u201d And even [Douglas] Scott, the teach-in co-chairman who has been largely nonpolitical as a student, said many young people suspect their concerns are being diverted by the environment cause.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While conceding that \u201cit was by any reckoning an extraordinary happening,\u201d Coffey wrote that \u201csome of the stunts\u2014such as sledge-hammering an old automobile into junk after convicting it of pollution in a mock trial\u2014seemed on about the level of panty raids, but panty raids with a conscience.\u201d Yet he acknowledged that \u201cmuch of the activity was a good deal more sophisticated than that.\u201d\n<p>The students\u2019 incipient concerns with Earth Day were reflected twenty years later in a characteristically fiery but sobering essay by Kirkpatrick Sale, later a <em>Nation<\/em> contributing editor, titled \u201c.\u201d\n<blockquote>\n<p>In general the environmental organizations in this country and the official agencies that have grown up in response to them have not, over the past two decades, gotten beyond the most elemental Where-does-it-hurt? questions; certainly they have not raised the deeper, subsequent questions or demanded the still deeper answers. Earth Day 1990, I regret to say, for all its ballyhoo and good intentions, has moved not one step out of that mire\u2026.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is an operation\u2014however well meaning, however many good people involved\u2014that is, at its core, a shuck. For after telling us where it hurts, it gives us only the most simplistic sorts of remedies. Its first is personal \u201clife-style\u201d Band-Aids for hemorrhaging wounds and do-it-yourself surgery; its second is the nostrum of federal laws and regulations, providing the patient with more of the kind of cures that created the disease. And it never gets around to asking\u2014much less proposing answers for\u2014those fundamental questions this society must be forced to face: Who, really, is causing the degradation and destruction of the environment? How can they be stopped, and stopped short, not just \u201cregulated\u201d and \u201coverseen\u201d and reformed? Why has society allowed this to go on, to the point that all oxygen-dependent species, including humans, are imperiled, and why do we seem powerless to prevent it? What would it take to accomplish the serious, wrenching, full-scale readjustments that in fact are necessary to save the earth, including reduced standards of living, consumption and growth; severe population reduction; and a new, modest, regardful relationship with the earth and its species? Who is going to carry this literally vital message to the American people? And <em>when<\/em>? For the time, as every new crisis lets us know, is later than we think.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But importantly, Sale did not think Earth Day entirely without value, and his conclusions are as valid today, a quarter-century later, as they were in 1990.\n<blockquote>\n<p>However, I do not despair of Earth Day entirely. I belong to three organizations that will be taking part in activities of one kind or another in New York City; I will be participating in a couple of forums and giving a talk during Earth Week; and I will get up early on Sunday to travel out to the middle of Pennsylvania to give another talk on Earth Day itself. It is obviously a time when at least some part of the population will wish to hear messages about the earth, and they need not all be shallow and individualistic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In short, we must make of Earth Day what we can. Many I know will take the opportunity to criticize it, in a friendly fashion, and to educate when and where they can. Many will regard it as an occasion to organize and recruit for one righteous cause or another. And many will treat it merely as day one of a campaign to carry on with the spirit of Earth Day (or their version of Earth Day) in a more concerted and farseeing way.\n<p>Whether in 1970, 1990, or 2014, the most important day to advocate for the Earth is not April 22nd\u2014it\u2019s April 23rd.\n<p><strong>Read more of\u00a0<em>The Nation<\/em>&#8216;s special\u00a0#MyClimateToo\u00a0coverage:<\/strong><br\/>\n<strong>Mark Hertsgaard<\/strong>: Why TheNation.com Today Is All About Climate<br\/>\n<strong>Christopher Hayes<\/strong>: The New Abolitionism<br\/>\n<strong>Naomi Klein<\/strong>: The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External<br\/>\n<strong>Dani McClain<\/strong>: The \u2018Environmentalists\u2019 Who Scapegoat Immigrants and Women on Climate Change<br\/>\n<strong>Mychal Denzel Smith<\/strong>: Racial and Environmental Justice Are Two Sides of the Same Coin<br\/>\n<strong>Katrina vanden Heuvel<\/strong>: Earth Day\u2019s Founding Father<br\/>\n<strong>Wen Stephenson<\/strong>: Let This Earth Day Be The Last<br\/>\n<strong>Katha Pollitt<\/strong>: Climate Change is the Tragedy of the Global Commons<br\/>\n<strong>George Zornick<\/strong>: We\u2019re the Fossil Fuel Industry\u2019s Cheap Date<br\/>\n<strong>Dan Zegart<\/strong>: Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court<br\/>\n<strong>Jeremy Brecher<\/strong>: \u2018Jobs vs. the Environment\u2019: How to Counter the Divisive Big Lie<br\/>\n<strong>Jon Wiener<\/strong>: Elizabeth Kolbert on Species Extinction and Climate Change<br\/>\n<strong>Dave Zirin<\/strong>: Brazil\u2019s World Cup Will Kick the Environment in the Teeth<br\/>\n<strong>Steven Hsieh<\/strong>: People of Color Are Already Getting Hit the Hardest by Climate Change<br\/>\n<strong>John Nichols<\/strong>: If Rick Weiland Can Say \u201cNo\u201d to Keystone, So Can Barack Obama<br\/>\n<strong>Michelle Chen<\/strong>: Where Have All the Green Jobs Gone?<br\/>\n<strong>Peter Rothberg<\/strong>: Why I&#8217;m Not Totally Bummed Out This Earth Day<br\/>\n<strong>Leslie Savan<\/strong>: This Is My Brain on Paper Towels\n<p><span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-385\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2f2b00accbb3a4a3122ea94bb95a47e9.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\u00a0Take Action: Stop Cove Point<\/span>\n<p>* * *\n<p><em>Subscribers to <\/em>The Nation <em>can access our fully searchable digital archive, which contains thousands of historic articles, essays and reviews, letters to the editor and editorials dating back to July 6, 1865.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=381\">I Hope Iran Wins at the World Cup<\/a><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\n                Submit a correction\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Send a letter to the editor\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Reprints &amp; permissions\n            \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2><i>Support <\/i>The Nation<i>\u2019s June Fundraising Campaign<\/i><\/h2>\n<p>With the midterm elections now firmly upon us, the question is whether Democratic candidates will do more than merely occupy ballot lines as mild alternatives to the red-hot crisis that is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump spends over $1 billion a day on a globally destabilizing war on Iran and admits that he doesn\u2019t \u201cthink about Americans\u2019 financial situation,\u201d millions across the country are struggling with the surging costs of essentials. 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