Paige Parsons Roache was about to sing the virtues of plant -based foods on Saturday in the Balboa park in San Diego when she lifted a finger and said to a little crowd: “Wait!”
She was a few seconds from drowning by the roar of a commercial jet descending to San Diego International Airport, an unworthiness that struck three other ecologists trying to connect with the public in the day of the earth.
They were on a panel organized by San Diego Earthfest, the Earthfair final successor, a festival of the Earth Day of decades which once fired up to 50,000. It faded during the Covid-19 pandemic.
At its peak, Earthfair took a large part of the Balboa park. On Saturday, Earthfest was confined to the president’s lawn, a small area which is near a motorway highway and directly under the passenger jets of the aerial corridor animated at the airport.
The festival, which hoped to attract 10,000 visitors, presented certain environmental and conservation groups, including Project Clean Water and Plastic Beach. But the real draw seemed to be food and clothing cabins that offered things such as ice with New Zealand-style fruits, natural flavor butter and sushi.
“We meet people where they are and talk to them about the environment,” said Michelle May of Viridian Productions, who organized the festival.
A handful of comparative visitors leaned to an outdoor tent for a round table on climate activism, a subject that is often the subject of heated rhetoric. The atmosphere was soft on Saturday, allowing certain basic messages to pass.
Keith Mikas of the Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego has taken a practical and neighboring accent, saying: “We are at a point where there are more than 80 (EV brands) on the market … People are now really looking for the car they want, and not just to settle down.”
He made sure to add that the load terminals become abundant in certain regions and have underlined unexpected places to find them.
Matthew Cloud of Plastic Beach has moved away from the need to get rid of plastic grocery bags and stressed a less familiar problem, saying that many “companies do not realize that the vast majority of the clothes we wear arrive in the store in a plastic bag” which can be recycled.
Culifornia California California Action Corps, felt a little joyful.
“Children come to our tables and try to teach us things,” he said, shortly before an American Airlines plane climbed over the head. “It’s really inspiring. I did not think of some of these concepts I heard.
Cloud has been built in this optimistic tone, saying: “People have been informed that these problems are not soluble. This is not true.”
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California Daily Newspapers
