The climate crisis is on track to become the most far-reaching and catastrophic disaster the Earth has ever known. This image is an aerial view from space of the 2020 Brazilian rainforest fires. (Photo: OSORIOartist/Shutterstock)
My team and I closed the May 2021 issue of NU Property & Casualty magazine just ahead of Earth Day, the annual event developed more than a half-century ago to raise awareness of environmental protection initiatives and the peace movement.
It would be glorious to be able to write that the world has come a long way since that first Earth Day observance in 1970. But sadly, violence and social unrest continue to grip my country, and the Earth itself is in worse shape than it was 50 years ago.
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Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Elana Ashanti Jefferson serves as ALM's PropertyCasualty360 Group Chief Editor. She is a veteran journalist and communications professional. Reach her by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
