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Earth Day, celebrated on April 22 each year, marks the anniversary of the birth in 1970 of the modern environmental movement in the United States. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species acts. By April 22, 2000, 5,000 environmental groups around the world were on board, reaching out to hundreds of millions of people in 184 countries. Today more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world. The Earth Day Network, founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day, promotes environmental citizenship and year-round action worldwide.
每年4月22日的“地球日”（Earth Day）是1970年在美國誕生的現(xiàn)代環(huán)保活動紀念日。第一個地球日催生了美國環(huán)境保護署（U.S. Environmental Protection Agency）,《潔凈空氣法》(Clean Air Act) 、《潔凈水法》(Clean Water Act)和《瀕臨滅絕動植物保護法》(Endangered Species Act)等一系列法案也相繼出臺。至2000年4月22日止，全世界已有5,000個環(huán)保組織開展工作，深入184個國家的億萬民眾。今天，有10多億人民參加與地球日有關(guān)的活動，使地球日成為全世界最大的非宗教公民活動。由第一個地球日組織者創(chuàng)辦的“地球日網(wǎng)絡(luò)” （The Earth Day Network）組織正在為提高全世界民眾的環(huán)保意識和常年舉辦的活動積極奔走。
Q: When did Earth Day move from the United States to nations around the world?
問：地球日什么時候開始從美國走向世界各國？
Rogers: Earth Day has been global since its inception but became truly global on its 20th anniversary in 1990. That year, a group of environmental leaders asked Denis Hayes, the organizer of the first Earth Day and chairman of Earth Day 2010, to step up again. This was in the lead up to the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Rio and environmental issues were entering the global consciousness. That year, Denis and the Earth Day Network mobilized 200 million people in 141 countries.
羅杰斯：地球日從成立伊始就面向全球，但在1990年第20個紀念日起成為名符其實的全球性活動。一群環(huán)保工作領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人在1990年敦請第一個地球日的組織者和2010年地球日的主席丹尼斯·海斯(Dennis Hayes)帶領(lǐng)大家重整旗鼓。這股勢頭于1992年在巴西里約熱內(nèi)盧召開的“地球峰會”（Earth Summit）[聯(lián)合國環(huán)境與發(fā)展會議(United Nations Conference on Environment and Development)]上得到繼續(xù)，環(huán)保問題逐漸成為全球共識。丹尼斯與“地球日網(wǎng)絡(luò)”組織在那一年動員了141個國家的兩億人民參加活動。
Q: Describe some of your major international programs and activities.
問：請給我們介紹一些你們主辦的主要國際性項目和主題活動。
