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Newt's World

Episode 400: Earth Day

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

News, Politics

4.76.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The first Earth Day was established on April 22, 1970. Newt coordinated the first environmental studies program at West Georgia College the following year. Newt talks about Earth Day, from when it first began and what Republicans are doing today in an effort to improve our environment.

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On this episode of Newt's World, the first Earth Day was established on April 22nd, 1970.

1:14.0

At the time, I was still studying in Brussels for my dissertation in modern European history.

1:21.0

The following year, I became a professor in the history department of West Georgia College and I asked to get involved in the Environmental Studies program, which in fact I helped develop.

1:33.0

And I taught in the second Earth Day and then we created an entire program around environmental studies, which was one of the most exciting things I did during the period when I was a teacher.

1:44.0

But my interest in the concept of Earth Day and the concept of conservation goes back way before that.

1:51.0

I grew up in Central Pennsylvania until I was 11 and then I would go back in the summer when my dad was stationed in the Army at Fort Raleigh.

2:07.0

And I grew up going up into the mountains and really being surrounded by nature.

2:14.0

And I had a fascination with animals. In fact, my relatives would all take me to the Philadelphia Zoo, to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

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