Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

So you might be thinking it's not really Earth Day.

Earth Day was Saturday.

Saturday, the magical 420 day.

The day that combines a great love of marijuana, a love of the earth, and Hitler's birthday, all in one day.

But, in reality, the first large Earth Day celebration, April 22nd, 1970, 49 years ago today,

was held in Philadelphia, giant rally, and it began a shocking series of bipartisan environmental legislation, including the Clean Water Act,

the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, take the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act.

We take the Endangered Species Act a little bit for granted today, or at least until a few years ago.

But in 1970, bald eagles were dying.

And that's on American money.

So that was a crisis.

And it was the Richard Nixon administration that pushed all this stuff through.

So it just goes to show you that what you think of a historical figure does not always

line up to the actual actions that the administration did. Of course, you know, all the terrible

things that happened during that same time,

but to get the Environmental Protection Agency and the Endangered Species Act made into law,

federal law that was aggressively prosecuted was a sort of shock.

And it was such a pleasant surprise

that a lot of people kind of started to relax

and think, well, when things are really bad, they'll do something.

Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Earth Day

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