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I'm an environmental writer and I dread Earth Day

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Earth Day is officially Friday. And as someone who writes about the environment, it's a day that I dread.

Like activities during Black History Month or Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Earth Day celebrations tend to trivialize the matter at hand. It doesn't represent progress for race relations to hold an event featuring an African-American speaker followed by a jazz band one Saturday in February, just as it's a pedestrian gesture at best to pick up trash on Earth Day.


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