UN International Earth Day 2022 theme: ‘Invest In Our Planet

This year, Earth Day 2022 calls on everyone to divest from unsustainable investments; support eco-conscious brands and products; and to use your own skills and voice to fight climate change.

As we celebrate International Earth Day on April 22, educators, translators and interpreters can certainly draw special environmental resemblances with our art and task. The original and target text, as a rich language compound, mirrors the planet rich in planetary biodiversity; the language professionals, as every living organism in Nature, are key players in their own ecosystems.

The overarching, unparalleled, receptive skills of comprehensive reading, listening and understanding, we use to deal with any piece of discourse, can indeed be used to finesse how we ‘read’ Nature. The expert word worker is able to put to use a display of comprehensive skills when tackling the material to be rendered and communicated. This enhanced, insightful capacity also opens up our ability to take in nature’s alive dimensionality in full.

Here’s our urgent call to reaffirm our commitments to  protect Mother Earth, in particular, a call to decision makers at all levels. The UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda calls on everybody, namely decision makers, to be active participants for the planet. Together, as engaged language professionals, able to go beyond the lines to add some environmental awareness, working with civil society, the private sector, academia, and the media, we truly can help restore our Earth, one way or another, for us and the next generations. 

Please we urgently encourage you to join climate crisis advocacy associations in your locale. Check the NETA newsletter to get action tips for the profession. We welcome yours anytime! We invite language associations to join in the ‘green’ effort as well!

Happy Earth day! All for the planet to save it.

Laura

'Progress without destruction'

1980-2022

Environmental educator & coordinator

NETA BOD, editor & Green Wave founder - Sierra Club ExCom member - Women Graduate BOD & convener - NOF & ZWA founder activist educator