Good and timely question

Is Earth Day Dead?

Here's another good question, to my mind:  don't we need Earth Day now, more than ever, to raise awareness of what we're doing to this planet in so many ways?

Links:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378816/Texas-wildfires-Million-acres-scorched-towns-red-alert.html 

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_6d48fc16-8edd-591e-acd3-91beac10804f.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/21/rick-perry-pray-for-rain/ 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/04/19/135510923/washing-away-the-arctic-coastline?print=1