Today’s annual Earth Day Doodle addresses one of the most pressing topics of our time: climate change.
Using real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, the Doodle shows the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet. Stay tuned throughout the day to view these scenes, each remaining on the homepage for several hours at a time.
On Earth Day 2022, which falls today, Google addressed the pressing challenge of climate change through its doodle. “Acting now and together to live more sustainably is necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change,” the company said.
In one of the most creative doodles of all time, Google is spreading awareness about Earth Day 2022 with a time-lapse on its home page, which shows the impacts of climate change over the decades across the planet.
The time-lapse has been created through a compilation of imagery that was collected by Google Earth. The imagery shows several parts of the planet, including coral reefs, glaciers, and general greenery, which has visibly reduced over the decades.
When you click on the Google Doodle today, it will show you a time-lapse bringing attention to climate change, and will also explain the several aspects attached to the issue, such as what is causing it and its various effects on the general population.
While stating the effects of climate change, the Google page reads, “Warmer temperatures over time are changing weather patterns and disrupting the usual balance of nature. This poses many risks to human beings and all other forms of life on Earth.”
Google further explained that the major cause of climate change on Earth is greenhouse gas emissions. According to the United Nations, “As greenhouse gas emissions blanket the Earth, they trap the sun’s heat. This leads to global warming and climate change. The world is now warming faster than at any point in recorded history.”
UN ActNow has also stated several ways through which people can take action against climate change on the occasion of Earth Day 2022. People have been encouraged to save more energy at home, take public transportation to work, and eat more vegetables and less meat.
World Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22 to bring awareness to the various issues that are inflicting harm on our planet, most notably climate change and global warming. Earth Day is also celebrated to call attention to the various ways people can be more sustainable in their lifestyle and slow down global warming.
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network), including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2022 is Invest In Our Planet.
In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later, United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970. He hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event “Earth Day”. Denis and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More than 20 million people poured out on the streets, and the first Earth Day remains the largest single-day protest in human history. Key non-environmentally focused partners played major roles. Under the leadership of labor leader Walter Reuther, for example, the United Auto Workers (UAW) was the most instrumental outside financial and operational supporter of the first Earth Day. According to Hayes, “Without the UAW, the first Earth Day would have likely flopped!” Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in recognition of his work.
Source: Google, DNA, Indian Express
