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History Smashers: Earth Day and the Environment
Paperback
Series: History Smashers
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9780593705308
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
In April 1970, twenty million people grabbed their rakes, gloves, and recycling bins to celebrate the first Earth Day. Since that environmental kickoff, nature has never been in better shape. RIGHT?
WRONG! The real deal is a bit muddier than that. It's true that the first Earth Day encouraged people around the globe to clean up their act when it came to the environment. But activists have been working for centuries to save the planet! Native people across the world developed sustainable farming practices, women in eighteenth-century India stood up to protect trees, and amateur scientist Eunice Foote discovered the science behind global warming all the way back in the 1850s!
Join the History Smashers team to bust history's biggest misconceptions and figure out what in the world really went down before (and after!) the first Earth Day--and how you can join the fight to protect the environment.
Ready to bust new myths? Check out more titles in the History Smashers series: The Mayflower - Plagues & Pandemics - The Titanic - The Underground Railroad - The Salem Witch Trials
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