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The first people to show interest in #EarthDay were young, college-educated mothers. They “were deeply affected by environmental threats to their children,” @DenisHayes, the original organizer of Earth Day, told @TIME. #19threadshttps://time.com/5570269/earth-day-origins/ …

In the 1970s, the Chipko movement, a women-led effort to stop deforestation, kept loggers in India from cutting trees by clinging to them — the first modern “tree huggers.” #19threads via @ozyhttps://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/how-the-tree-hugging-movement-got-started-in-a-small-indian-village/93156/ …