Source: WRAL, 4/22/20


EDITOR'S NOTE: Elizabeth Biser is a resident of Cary and member of the Environmental Defense Fund’s North Carolina Advisory Board.  She has 15 years of experience in the field of environmental policy.
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Half a century after the first Earth Day North Carolina has many reasons for hope in the middle of hard times. We are now fighting to address, and begin to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, which has caused many North Carolinians to contend with job losses, health concerns, and disruptions to our lives and routines. This 50th Earth Day reminds us that by working together and basing our actions on science we can rise to meet the challenge of our current crisis and the one that’s gathering force behind it: climate change. 

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