It’s nice if right this moment has us bonding over caring in regards to the state of our planet. Or is Earth Day largely taken up with virtue-signalling manufacturers hopping on the bandwagon? Fifty-four years after the inaugural Earth Day, it appears to have turn into a Speaker’s Nook of greenwashing. It feels as if firms’ inexperienced endeavours comprise 0.2 per cent of their exercise, but make up 98.8 per cent of their storytelling. A fast recap: a coal-powered begin to the UK’s first Industrial Revolution within the 1760s began the emissions social gathering. A second Industrial Revolution, powered by electrical energy and petrol, motored us into the twentieth century.
