# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16446307-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-22T11:48:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

"We have met the enemy and he is us"⁠⠀
A slogan from cartoonist Walt Kelly, promoting the first Earth Day, which took place fifty years ago today.⁠⠀
Co-ordinated by activist Denis Hayes, the event was conceived by US Senator Gaylord Nelson as a “national teach-in on the environment”, inspired by the grassroots protest movement of the 1960s.⁠⠀
On April 22, 1970, 20 million demonstrators and thousands of schools and local communities participated across America, marking a sea change in attitudes towards environmental protection.⁠⠀
Now a global event advocating policy change, education, and action on ecological issues, Earth Day is thought to mobilise as many as 1 billion people.⁠⠀
Swipe through or follow our bio link for gettyarchive coverage of the first ever Earth Day, from rallies held in Chicago and New York.⁠⠀
📷: Paul Sequeira | Chicago Sun-Times collection/Chicago History Museum | Santi Visalli | Fred W. McDarrah | Lambert | Getty Images | #GettyImages25 #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠⠀
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