Earth Day goes digital to engage online gamers with environment issues
by Sandra Laville from Environment | The Guardian on (#52H26)
Event's 50th anniversary sees digital activism replace demos, due to coronavirus
Earth Day demonstrations scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic are being replaced with digital activism via the online gaming community to exploit an as yet untapped audience for action against climate change.
Earth Day, 22 April 2020, had been years in the planning but the large global demonstrations to mark the event's 50th anniversary were brought to a halt by Covid-19. In a swift pivot from the physical action which was to have been spearheaded by half a million people gathering in Washington DC, organisers sent their movement into the digital sphere.
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