Earth Day 2017: ‘The experts are fighting back’

With a climate-change sceptic in the White House, marchers worldwide are today spreading a message of hope that protest and science can save the world‘An exuberant rite of spring” is how the New York Times described 22 April, 1970. In Manhattan, and across America, “huge, light-hearted throngs ambled down autoless streets.” Earth Day had been born, an outburst of protest – and revelry – that involved everyone from save-the-whales activists to opponents of new