美国总统奥巴马2010年地球日公告.doc

美国总统奥巴马2010年地球日公告时间:2010-04-23 10:18 Proclamation by President Obama for Earth Day 2010 美国总统奥巴马2010年地球日公告 In the fall of 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson announced plans for a national “environmental teach-in” – one day, each year, of action and advocacy for the environment. His words rallied our Nation, and the first Earth Day, as it became known, saw millions come together to meet one of the greatest challenges of our times: caring for our planet. What Senator Nelson and the other organizers believed then, and what we still believe today, is that our environment is a blessing we share. Our future is inextricably bound to our planet’s future, and we must be good stewards of our home as well as one another. 1969年秋天，威斯康星州联邦参议员盖洛德?尼尔森（Gaylord Nelson）宣布发起全国 “环境宣教”的计划——要求每年有一天集中倡导并开展环境保护的活动。他发出的呼声动员了我们整个国家，在第一个后来被称为地球日的那一天，数百万民众齐心协力应对我们这个时代面临的最大挑战之一：关心我们的地球。当年尼尔森参议员和其他组织者相信，我们的环境是我们共同获得的恩赐。我们今天依然相信这一点。我们的未来与我们地球的未来休戚相关，不可分割。我们必须善待我们的家园，如同人人和睦相处。 On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we come together to reaffirm those beliefs. We have come far in these past four decades. One year before the first Earth Day, our Nation watched in horror as the polluted and debris-choked Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. In response, a generation of Americans stepped forward to demand progress. What Americans achieved in the decades that followed has made our children healthier, our water and air cleaner, and our planet more livable. 在此纪念地球日40周年之际，我们再次共同重申这些信念。40年来我们历经沧海。在第一个地球日的前一年，我们的国家惊恐地看到俄亥俄州克里夫兰市（Cleveland，Ohio）污染严重、垃圾充斥的凯霍加河（Cuyahoga River）燃起大火。针对这种情况，那一代美国人挺身而出，要求改善当时的状况。美国人在其后数十年中取得的进步使我们的孩子更加健康，我们的水和空气更加清洁，我们的家园更适于居住。 We passed the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, established the Environmental Protection Agency, and safeguarded treasured American landscapes. Americans across our country have witnessed the impact of these measures, including the people of Cleveland, where the Cuyahoga River is cleaner than it has been in a century. 我们通过了清洁空气和清洁水的法案，设立了环境保护署（Envi