Today serves as a great reminder to realign our focus, but every day is Earth Day. We are noticing lockdown’s beneficial effects on the environment—the skies are clearer, the animals are returning. But these changes won’t last if we revert back to “normal” and plow onwards in stubbornness or unawareness.

Climate change is humanity’s number one threat, not the Coronavirus. Because of us, it is also millions of other species’ greatest threat. We are slowly garnering attention towards this issue, and we are making some progress. But not enough.

Earth is the only home any of us will ever know. It is the only home our species has ever had. We must treat it for what it is—a sacred miracle. If we all consider our actions and how they affect the planet, rapid progress can alter the current course of catastrophe and extinction.

Make no mistake, those are the stakes.

Let’s make every day Earth Day, because every day is a day on Earth. It’s such an incredibly beautiful and utterly amazing world; we must change our ways to keep it that way.