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ORANGE COUNTY EARTH DAY 1990 RESOLUTION WHEREAS, Human activities are seriously compromising the earth 's ability to sustain life as a result of environmental threats, such as global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, increasing human and pet populations, declining soil fertility, extinction of species, air pollution, water pollution, and earth pollution; and WHEREAS, Citizens and community leaders are now recognizing environmental protection and resource conservation to be essential prerequisites to sustained prosperity and environmental well-being for all living things; and WHEREAS, Cities and counties have many critical environmental responsibilities, including land-use management, management of transportation systems, solid and liquid waste management, protection of water resources, and much more; and WHEREAS, Almost twenty years ago, millions of Americans joined together on Earth Day to express an unprecedented concern for the environment, and their collective action resulted in the passage of the first significant legislation to protect our air, our water, and the lands around us; and WHEREAS, Citizens and their governments must strongly commit themselves to act to meet the global environmental challenges without delay, and stand together in cities, counties, towns and villages around the world for a week of collective action to declare our shared resolve for the future; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Endorses April 22 as Earth Day 1990, and declares that April 15- 22 , 1990 shall be designated and proclaimed as Earth Week, and that the week shall be set aside for public activities promoting preservation of the global environment. ..,14a146 Moses Carey, Jr. , Chair •'n Beverly Blythe, Clerk