Earth Days 2018 at Salem State
The theme of this year’s Earth Day celebration at Salem State University is “State of Nature: Past, Present – and Future?” The theme seeks to bring attention to the imminent threats that the natural world faces from climate change, deregulation, environmental degradation and habitat loss.
The week’s events will highlight the unprecedented attacks on science, climate change prevention and mitigation, environmental laws, and protections of wildlife and critical habitats and examine the consequences of this assault on nature for humans and other species, including societal conflict, rampant poverty, pervasive inequality, horrifying drought and famine, extreme and disastrous weather events and devastating species extinctions. Earth Days Week 2018 will explore the implications for the environment and society of population growth and policies that favor reliance on fossil fuels, which threaten the lives, habitat and welfare of wildlife in the U.S. and globally.
At the same time that the natural world is imperiled, public interest in nature and wildlife is at an all-time high. During the week, we will look at the ecological, psychological, social and political importance of nature to society and actions that can be taken to protect the natural world.
The Earth Days Planning Committee invites you to participate in this year’s events to learn, contemplate, discuss and share ideas on the theme: “State of Nature: Past, Present – and Future?”
