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New deaths:
DAY China Italy USA Spain Germany S. Korea WORLD
Apr 1 7 727 589 463 83 3 3239
2 6 760 522 709 158 4 4183
2 6 760 522 709 158 4 4183
3 4 766 716 587 123 5 3822
4 4 681 769 546 55 3 4755
5 3 525 909 471 106 6 3595
6 2 636 874 528 78 3 4414
7 ? 604 1371 556 95 6 6291
8 2 542 1400 628 176 8 5431
9 2 610 1286 446 82 4 3779
10 1 570 1739 523 121 4 6506
5 3 525 909 471 106 6 3595
6 2 636 874 528 78 3 4414
7 ? 604 1371 556 95 6 6291
8 2 542 1400 628 176 8 5431
9 2 610 1286 446 82 4 3779
10 1 570 1739 523 121 4 6506
11 3 619 1476 399 ? 3 5358
12 ? 431 1090 366 74 3 4533
13 2 566 1147 280 21 3 4489
14 ? 602 1754 300 100 5 5726
15 1 578 1558 324 97 3 6351
16 ? 525 1796 318 139 4 6239
17 1290 575 1338 298 151 1 6857
12 ? 431 1090 366 74 3 4533
13 2 566 1147 280 21 3 4489
14 ? 602 1754 300 100 5 5726
15 1 578 1558 324 97 3 6351
16 ? 525 1796 318 139 4 6239
17 1290 575 1338 298 151 1 6857
18 ? 482 1090 41 74 2 4888
19 ? 433 1117 410 10 2 4344
20 ? 454 1202 399 64 2 4307
21 ? 534 1481 430 86 1 5362
22 ? 437 931 435 125 1 5008
Summary:
19 ? 433 1117 410 10 2 4344
20 ? 454 1202 399 64 2 4307
21 ? 534 1481 430 86 1 5362
22 ? 437 931 435 125 1 5008
Summary:
- A better day for humanity, as new deaths declined for the World, USA and Italy.
- However new cases in the USA were equal to the combined cases for Spain, Italy, France and Germany, the #s 2 to 5 countries for total cases.
- I checked the deaths for yesterday and today, which for China and Japan mean that the there were no new deaths today. Is that real?
- More new cases are increasing for South America.
- Africa and India seem under control.
What were you doing half a century ago? I was in graduate school. I have no memories of anything particularly environmental. I was trying to build a tunable laser for my PhD thesis.
In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor Earth and the concept of peace. Secretary General U Thant of the United Nations signed a proclamation written by McConnell.
A couple of months later Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, saw an 800 square-mile oil slick from a blown out oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, and proposed an idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970. He hired an activist, Denis Hayes, a history major from Stanford University, who later went on to earn a law degree from there, to be the national coordinator. They called it Earth Day and Hayes not only organized the nation, but eventually coordinated events in 141 nations. Walt Kelly created this anti-pollution poster to promote this first day.
Hayes went on to run the Solar Energy Research Institute during the Carter administration when I was working in the U.S. Senate. I remember Senator Nelson well as an environmentalist, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for this effort in 1995.
The first Earth Day was incredible, taking place in 2000 colleges/universities and 10,000 K-12 schools in the USA. Today, 192 countries observe this day, coordinated by the Earth Day Network, now run by Denis Hayes, who said that this is now the largest secular holiday in the world celebrated by more than a billion people every year. Yes, that's him 50 years later.
How was I affected by that first Earth Day? I graduated in biochemical engineering in 1972 and a decade later became the University of Hawaii campus ecologist by choice. I taught environmental engineering and created a course called Technology and Society. I had 50 to a 100 students each semester carry out environmental activities with community organizations. One class of 70 actually was able to get National Science Foundation support to publish Energy Self-Sufficiency for the State of Hawaii, which was picked up by the State Department of Energy as a textbook for high school science classes. My research was all related to sustainable resources and renewable energy. At the same time I became Directors of the Environmental Center and the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute.
Way back when I was active, Life of the Land was the environmental group of note. Today, it is the Blue Planet Foundation, founded by Henk Rogers. While I don't think this is their motto, it did come from a meeting of a distinguished board:
This statement is from an article about the organization. Today, the Star Advertiser published an op-ed by Melissa Miyashiro and Jeff Mikulina of Blue Planet entitled: Parallels in coronavirus, climate crisis.
Today Hawaii Senator Sharon Moriwaki sent me a newsletter, which also went to her supporters. We were once golf buddies and colleagues at the University of Hawaii:
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As I started with 1958 yesterday, here are the best songs from 1953-1957. In 15 minutes. No drugs...innocent times...no rap music. For me songs of the period when I ranged from 13-17 were my most memorable.
Actually, that clip at the start of this paragraph I don't think was well made. Here are ALL the Billboard Hot 100 #1 hits from 1955-1959. Much better, and 18 minutes long, but if you're old enough, you can trace what you were doing during that period. Finally, here is one selecting the most iconic song of the 75 past years, somewhat educational for me.
Can't believe I said nothing about our fearful leader, but I'm putting together a posting to be entitled The Madness of King Trump. Did King George III suffer from acute intermittent porphyria, or was he just plain crazy?
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