It is hard to believe that it is 50 years since the first Earth Day. Just 2 years earlier we had the opportunity to see how beautiful and fragile the Earth was from the picture above taken from the Moon. I remember being a college sophomore and feeling that this issue would be the defining issue for our Baby Boomer generation. The activism of our "hippie" generation was supposed to be in contrast to our complacent parents WWII generation. Now 50 years later and our generation is now the senior citizen generation that has dropped the ball on leaving a cleaner environment than existed when we were young. Today we see Trump, a member of our generation, seeking to make our environment more polluted. A new generation will have to carry the ball on implementing a new Green Deal. Many of us Baby Boomers are willing to join the efforts to undo the damage to our environment that the Trump administration has caused. We may be grayer but our idealism hasn't been diminished.
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