Humans make Earth Day better
From the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a human-centered Earth Day public service announcement:
Make sure to share the vid with your children and help immunize the next generation against enviro-nitwit-ism. Meghan Cox Gurdon surveys eco-fear-mongering in children’s literature:
If you have somehow missed the fact that April 22 is Earth Day, it’s probably because you are grown up. Were you a child, there’s not a chance you’d be allowed to miss the urgent chthonic nature of the day — nor the need to recycle, to use water sparingly, to protect endangered creatures and generally to be agitated about a planet in peril.
Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it’s almost a waste of resources. Like acid rain, but more persistent and corrosive, it dribbles down on them all day long. They get it at school, where recycling now competes with tolerance as man’s highest virtue. They get it in peppy “go green” messages online, on television and in magazines.
And increasingly, the eco-message is seeping into the pages of novels that don’t, on their face, necessarily seem to be about environmentalism at all. Thus children who might like to escape into a good book are now likely to find themselves pursued into that imaginative realm by didactic adults fixated on passing along endless tellurian warnings.
Susceptible children are left in no doubt that we’re all headed for a despoiled, immiserated future unless they start planting pansies in their old shoes, using dryer lint as mulch, and practicing periodic vegetarianism. Not surprisingly, many young people are anxious. The more impressionable among them are coming to believe that their smallest decisions could have catastrophic effects on the globe. This, of course, is nonsense, unless their smallest decision involves tipping vats of mercury into forest streams. But they’re children, for goodness’ sake: They tend to believe what adults tell them — minus the nuance.
It’s working: One in three children fear green apocalpyse.
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In celebration of Earth Day, I went to McDonald’s for lunch and had fries and a double-cheese burger.
Uh, no. I lived in the Philadelphia area during the 70s. Einhorn (instrumental in the Earth Day event) was one of the co-founders. The Earth Day folks and other co-founders and organizers from that era have made sure to distance themselves from Einhorn, once they found out he killed his girlfriend.
No high caps in your neck of the woods?
Thats non-sense. You completely left humans out of the equation.
When you factor in the human element, then the deadly form of Super-CarbonO2 is created.
You must properly account for liberalism being logarithmically proportional to Super-Carbon. It is the rare case where a constant is also a variable.
Earth Day was founded by that dude in ‘Meet The Parents‘??
Where I live the only polluting I do is poop in an outhouse, run a chainsaw and occasionally an ATV, and for 6 hours a day run a Honda gas powered generator. I wonder if all of the greenies out there could shut off their power at night? If you are asleep what do you need power for? Wouldn’t that save a lot more than mercury laden lightbulbs that don’t work?
The greenies answer: “Oh, shutting off power may be OK where you live, but for me it is an unreasonable request.”
My mags hold 30 rounds each; I would be happy to lend a hand in the name of efficiency.
I heard women on talk radio telling Glenn Beck that their children were told to wear green on Earth Day for extra credit. It used to be “extra credit” went for extra work!
lgm, Having lived in L.A., I know that the basin in which it lies was known by the ancient indians who lived there as “the valley of fire” long before there was a single car there!
I remember during the many anti-nuke protests in the 1980’s that small children were used in various social campaigns to express their terror of nukes. At the time, some psychologists said that it is the job of parents to protect their young children from worrying about things like this that were out of their control. It was jarring to see a six year old so versed on nukes and it could only be the parents who provided this information. Now even if you keep your kids away from the news of the day, it seems to be okay for grade schools to put the fear of
Godbad science into them.Does LGM really believe that he is one of the sane 90% of people out there?!? I cannot stop laughing. LGM, you are left of left buddy… This is funny stuff.
Here’s something I didn’t know. Guess who was Einhorn’s attorney?
Einhorn’s bail was set at $40,000 at the request of his attorney, Arlen Specter;
letget, so true! Thanks for the prayer suggestion. I also thanked God for creating this earth, and sustaining it and all that is therein, despite what man does!!
Ah yes; ‘Earth Day’.
I burned all my household trash along with a lot of yard waste in a huge fire outside last evening. I smoked 2 cigarettes while I watched the trash burn.
I think I heard the trees, flowers, birds, cornfields, bees in the hive all thanking me.
I’m not being sarcastic. All of the above thrive around our property.
I don’t celebrate the loopy earth celebration that a convicted murderer founded, but I dont get the unhealty anti-conservation nonsense either.
Conservatives are supposed to be the ones with the facts and the facts are that cigar smoking, unhealty eating, and the like, harm YOU.
You look silly when you use these arguments.
We do our part to waste very little. We recycle/reuse/reduce use for everything we can, incl. food and paper and plastic. Uneaten food is composted or given to our dogs. Paper and plastic are recycled or reused for storage, crafts, etc. We shop at yard sales and consignment stores for clothing and household items. We also “freecycle ” to try to ensure that items we can’t use don’t end up in a landfill. (You’d be amazed at how often our “junk” becomes someone else’s “treasure” and vice versa!) My husband hunts and what we don’t eat he passes on to those who do.
It’s called being a good steward. We didn’t need the goobermint to tell us how/when or even why to do it.
I believe a lot of it is said to make a point…don’t you?
Amen
I celebrated earth day (lowercase intentional) by driving for 2 hours to the airport, eating a really good cheeseburger at the airport foodcourt, then boarding an airplane. (A fossil fuel burning airplane. A carbon dioxide emiting airplane.) I then flew home.
My original intent was to use the lawnmower and the chipper-shredder to do some yard work.
However, instead, I took my son ice skating (his first time). We had a BLAST!
The point being what? That “I harm myself and the evironment and I’m proud of it?” It seems a rather juvenile response to the enviro-nitwits. I dont like them much either, but come on, is that the best you got? This site has lost much of it’s witty humor.
Thank you MtsEdge, we do the same. Not because some looney lefty group told us to but because the Bible counsels us to be good stewards and treat our bodies as temples.
However, as many people today are non-believers, such reasoning would not work with them. And all I’m saying is; neither will the “I’m a jerk,” jokes.
Agreed.