Earth Day
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: Earth Day was a fake Holiday invented to support the far left, Marxist, anti-Humanity (Population Bomb Phobia) movement.
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While I don't really care what causes people support (even stupid ones), I do like people to be informed the on the stupid causes they support, who is behind them, and why. Follow the money.
Detractors of Earth Day claiming it's a green wrapping around Marxist agendas, while the proponents claim, "No. It's all moderate folks just trying to protect our planet and peace". When you research the history of Earth Day, it becomes obvious which side is informed, and which isn't. The first Earth Day was held on the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin... and that wasn't by accident.
Founders[edit | edit source]
To remember how worthy a Holiday is, it's best to remember who created it, why, and what has come of it. So to understand why the informed think Earth Day is a leftist front for anti-capitalism and watermelon environmentalism, you have to first understand the people who started the movement, and why.
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History[edit | edit source]
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| In honor of an invented fake-Holiday (Earth Day/Week), my office celebrated voluntary meatless Monday. I'm not sure what one has to do with the other.... what I'm sure of is that celebrating a Holiday invented by watermelon's (green on the outside, red on the inside), loons and kooks, to celebrate peace and balance by taking away people's choices (to get meat), is something so hypocritical, and so the new normal in California. |
- 1970 -, Walter Cronkite, Video of first Earth Day, tries to spin the lack of attendance of mostly spoiled white kids as some significant event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=WbwC281uzUs
- 1970 - Others were doing their best to exaggerate why they were needed (while making a mockery of why they were needed), like wearing a gas-mask to smell the flowers: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/an-earth-day-icon-unmasked-607188/
- 1970 - First day had things like mock funerals of ‘polluting’ objects (automobiles to toilets), they collected piles of litter and then staged “dump-ins” (nothing says caring about the environment like polluting in the name of it), students offered rice and tea as an example of the “hunger diet” we could expect because of overpopulation caused worldwide famine in a few years, or destroying a car with sledgehammers after a mock trial (students weren't able to do much to the car), and so on. It was retarded exaggeration that appeals to youth and the ignorant alike: http://time.com/3822575/earth-day-history/
- 1970 - The EPA was created, and grew into an bureaucratic behemoth that has done more to harm the environment and economy than help it. (Most people don't remember that most of the clean up was done before the EPA was created, and if anything, the EPA slowed the rate of improvement).
- 1990 - Hollywood virtue signals by being fully behind Earth Day: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255132/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
- 1990 - Protest list shows what the little snowflakes are all about - zoo, elephants will trample aluminum cans to promote recycling, wearing of gas masks to protest auto emissions, a human chain is symbolic of something (the bondage and conformity environmentalists demand?), protest highways and bridges for the evil job they do of making the world more habitable, and so on: http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/earth-day-celebrations-and-protests-are-planned-sunday-in-countries/article_dd38ce22-dd54-576c-bfd3-72221eaa7a56.html
- 2000 - Jeffery Ball of WSJ wrote, "Launched in 1970 as a protest against corporate environmental misconduct, Earth Day has become a planet-hugging marketing frenzy for companies themselves. Makers of everything from snack chips to sport-utility vehicles now use April 22 to boast about their efforts to help save the planet.": https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120882986342933569
- 2015 - Politicians exploited Earth Day as well. James Inhofe is observed Earth Day saluted environmental gains (the most significant had happened before Earth Day), and warnings against trillion-dollar, job-killing "scare tactics.": https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/4/post-d8ef1fa3-b222-09c3-28a6-c3826b8f740c
- 2018 - Denis Hayes is still out there pimping his fear: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/earth-day-2018-focuses-on-plastic-pollution/
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
Earth Day has always been about Scare Tactics. First it was Global Cooling and littering. Then it was that we were running out of landfills, peak oil (and all other resources), and later global warming. Once it stopped warming, they switched the terminology to "Climate Change". There was destruction of rain forests or wetlands was one of their scares. Always there's been extinction of species that would be the end of us (like the Beepocalypse. Now it is plastic waste or ocean acidification. Chicken little is desperate to get your attention.
There's a ton of silly exploitation in the name of the planet. Like going to electric cars which are browner in every way but tailpipe emissions (which is the least of our problems). Another example I like is Apple. In order to up their green cred, they go to all these environmentally safe materials for their cables, that wear out faster and create more pollution than they help. But if they try to work with Greenpeace or other environmental loons to explain, "if we use a little of this plastic, it'll reduce wear and save in the long run", those are nuances that beyond environmental activists. They demand being greener, by using materials that are far more wasteful to the environment.
In announcing the first Earth Day celebration, the Cleveland Press headline summed it up perfectly, "Hippies and Housewives Unite to Protest What Man is Doing to Earth."[1] While a little condescending, it was closer to the truth than anything the NYT would publish on the topic today.
In the end, both Marxist and Environmentalists can't tell the truth, because that wouldn't advance their cause. "Things have been getting better despite our warnings, so lets change everything!", isn't a good sell. So when you know the truth is unpopular, and you still want your agenda, your only option is to give up your dreams, or lie. Most choose the latter.
For example, while Earth Day sells itself as some rainbow coalition, the truth is they're not very open minded (as seen how they treat people who disagree), and more exemplified by the history of the anti-humanity and anti-immigrant views of many of the founders and proponents. Or despite it being sold as a day of celebration for the Earth and Peace, Earth Day has never been a celebration of the beauty and bounty of this awesome blue marble. Instead it’s always been an assault on humanity.
- Man is the great polluter that must be stopped because of failed predictions like Peak Oil, the Population Bombs, and so on
- When that fails to agitate the gullible, or time proves them wrong, they shift to something else: "Tree Killers" was popular in the 1980's, let's spike trees and kill/maim loggers for the greater good.
- Then in the 1990's it was man is bad for all the animals they're killing, like the Great Horned Owl, Polar Bears or Whales.
- When those aren't dying out as they predicted, then it's on to our cars or lack of green energy is the cause for badness.
And so on, and so on. But if you mention the failures of their past predictions, they'll attack you like Stalin on a capitalist street vendor trying to feed his family. While the problem of the day (year) keeps shifting, the cause (humans) never does. And their solution is always the same: give them (government) the power, to take away your liberty, and they'll protect the trees and environment from you. Just like the USSR did in Chernobyl, or China does as the greatest strip-miners in history.
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🔗 External Links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42711922/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/earth-day-co-founder-killed-composted-girlfriend/#.WtyFXi-ZN24
- https://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/04/22/earth-day-creation-far-left-477544
- http://pulpitandpen.org/2015/04/22/happy-evangelical-environmentalism-day/
- https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/04/earth_day_an_assault_on_man.html
- http://www.rutlandherald.com/articles/earth-day-founder-gaylord-nelson-89-dies/
- https://spectator.org/55727_happy-earth-day-and-lenin-day/
- http://humanevents.com/2011/04/22/earth-day-denigrates-capitalismand-humans/
- http://www.briansussman.com/environment/earth-days-real-history/
- Self deluded aggrandizement of the Socialism/Environmentalism movements. While comedy in places (that ignores the consequences of socialism on the environment), it is good to see how the other side views themselves, in all its virtue signaling and masturbatory self-contratulatory glory: https://isreview.org/issue/72/marxism-and-environment
- Sierra Club: http://rayharvey.org/index.php/2010/05/the-truth-about-sierra-club/
- Organized Labor: https://popularresistance.org/convergence-the-roots-of-earth-day-run-through-labor/
- John McConnel's Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ5MAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154
- http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/earth-day-celebrations-and-protests-are-planned-sunday-in-countries/article_dd38ce22-dd54-576c-bfd3-72221eaa7a56.html
- National Review on Earth Day's failures: https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/04/climate-alarmists-do-violence-earth-day/
- Public Opinion on AGW: http://www.aei.org/publication/earth-day-review-public-opinion-on-global-warming/
- George Carlin's amusing observations on Saving the Earth: http://www.aei.org/publication/in-observance-of-earth-day-2018-some-brilliant-wit-and-wisdom-from-george-carlin-on-saving-the-planet/
- 18 Wrong Predictions: http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/
- https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happiness/content/2019-04-22-reminder-earth-day-was-created-by-a-murderer/
- ↑ Hippies and Housewives Unite to Protest What Man is Doing to Earth: https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/environmentalism/