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Earth Day was established on April 22nd 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson. Its initial purpose was to provide a platform for all the different environmentalist groups to unite under a single day to thrust forward their message of conservation and environmental preservation. The movement was successful with over 20 million people participating world wide by marches and rallies in the name of Earth Day.

The main theme of this movement was ultimately to push through reform for conservation and to drive home the need for action now. It provided environmentalists around the world avenue to get their message across to governments and large corporations to change their practices in favor of green production and farming.

The main strives were in the fronts of renewable resource usage and also the use of natural products. Just by following the guidelines on the usage of renewable resource and natural products environmental conservation would have taken a very large move forward. A large part of the natural product movement was on proper use of natural organic fertilizers as opposed to the wide use of synthetic chemical fertilizers.

Although very cheap to purchase and use the true costs of synthetic fertilizer werent fully know. Only after many years of use will the true costs become apparent. The unforeseen costs are a severe drop in the fertility of soil and farmland and eventual death or desertification of soils. The initial application yields are the greatest but are only available on a sloping yield curve. The synthetic chemical fertilizers will kill the soil that they are applied too over time causing the farmland to be unusable and probably bankruptcy for the farmer.

In addition to damaging soils and destroying long term natural fertility, the run-off leached from the use of highly soluble fertilizer has also caused huge damage to the surrounding water systems such as lakes and rivers who suffer from the access nitrification which causes access weed growth, algae blooms and eventual death of most of the fish in the water systems. This level of upset in the eco system has been likened to the affects of oil spills.

The best alternative is to focus on the use of natural and organic fertilizers. As the products used to manufacture natural organic fertilizers are natural and clean, there is almost no risk of upsetting the local eco-system with their use. The earth really has no place for synthetic chemical fertilizers and its devastating side-affects.

Organic fertilizers use natural raw products such as fish, seaweed or even common waste to make fertilizers. Whatever is taken from the earth in terms of raw input is returned directly to the earth as the final product. There is very little waste and no imbalances in the natural ecology that occur when these fertilizers are applied. Plants and soils will greatly benefit from these fertilizers as they nourish the soil and provide vital nutrients that synthetic fertilizers have no hope in providing.

The main problem that the sponsors of Earth Day are experiencing is not so much in the message getting across to large government organizations or even large companies anymore. The work that they have done over the length of approaching 40 years have assured that these large governments and international companies know full well the responsibilities that they have been entrusted with. The problem is getting individual private citizens to contribute towards the cause actively. The new trust of the Earth Day movement is to get everyone involved in the conservation of our planet and ecosystem. Most importantly, the least private citizens can do is to change their fertilizer usage patterns and start using naturally organic products so that leaching and the unbalancing of the local ecosystem doesnt occur.

Just because we have made mistakes in the past doesnt mean that we can allow this to continue on for the future. The time to act is now. Show your support for Earth Day by adhering to the message of conservation and protecting the environment from further harm. It is our responsibility to make this planet we live on a better place for our children and our grand children to live.

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