Earth Day Nonsense

Rightwingpatriot.com ^ | April 23, 2014 | Rightwingerpatriot

[rightwingerpatriot]

If you didn't realize it, yesterday was Earth Day. Founded back in 1970, this event was created to foster support for environmental protection. (Coincidentally, it's also the day communists celebrate the birthday of Vladimir Lenin.) Chances are you saw some news reports on the joys of recycling and other such fluff. Personally, I find such Earth Day nonsense quite tiresome as the environmental movement went from wanting to stop pollution to full-tilt insane in a few decades.

One of the Earth Day consequences that we have is the EPA, which liberals and eco-nuts will gleefully remind us was signed into law by Richard Nixon. However, one of the most pertinent facts that liberals leave out of their diatribes is that, at the time, such an organization was needed. I was born in 1970 and remember how pollution was much more a fact of life when I was a child. As God gave us the Earth, it serves us to be good stewards of our charge. I do not want pollution fouling the water or the air, and I believe in protect nature as best as possible. However, unlike the environment nuts of today, I don't put nature above human lives.

The fact is that environmentalists were quite successful. They preached to us to not waste or pollute, and we have modified our society to accommodate that. This success had an unintended consequence for eco-nuts. What to do when they actually win? The answer is that they latched onto an even more religious zeal to promote uber-environmentalism. No longer was it good enough to stop pollution, we now had to stifle all development, lest the smallest creature or plant in Gaia's domain be injured.

That leads us to the sad state of affairs today. The EPA is out of control, going after people who put an artificial pond on their own property that local and state officials have no environmental impact at all. People are not allowed to build on their property due to some nebulous definition of wetlands. The timber industry in the Northwest has been gutted to the fact that entire forests are now off limits to being harvested. (I guess nobody told environmentalists that wood is a renewable resource.)

Our energy industry is under attack. Coal, oil, and nuclear power are being stopped by rampant lawsuits and dire predictions of environmental catastrophe. The latest blow is that President Obama delayed the Keystone Pipeline yet again due to that an eco-loon, billionaire Tom Steyer, pledge $100 million to liberal candidates if Obama would do so.

What is frustrating is that these environmental whack jobs are not pro-nature as much as they are anti-human. They are utter hypocrites as they rail against power and technology, but gladly live in a country where they take advantage of such benefits. They'll blog about the evils of the oil industry from their iPads while sipping lattes in an air-conditioned Starbucks. Yet for many in the world, they exist without power or running water. They yearn to reap the benefits of having electricity and the healthy, modern level of living that we enjoy here in the West. Yet when some project is proposed to build a new power plant or dam a river to generate power, these environmental idiots come out in full force, decrying the proposed plans and shutting them down. They then retreat to their comfortable existence while those who have to live in the primitive areas are forced to live in squalor and disease.

I saw a report the other day that blew my mind. It stated that 20 million children in India have schools that have no restrooms. India has a huge health problem in that many people defecate in the streets due to a shocking lack of plumbing. Yet this is the world that extreme environmentalists want us to live in. They value a single plant over the health and well being of a child. Millions can die from malaria that could be ended if DDT is brought back, but these sick people would rather weep tears over a baby seal over the deaths of small children.

[gorush]

At the very least Earth Day ought to be move two days earlier to coincide with Hitler’s birthday.

[colorado tanker]

The original idea of the EPA was good, to clean up the air and water. We didn't want rivers catching fire and wanted them safe for fish and fishing. We wanted to be able to see our mountains out here.

They accomplished the mission, but have now been captured by lefty extremists who abuse it to stop development and shut down industries they don't like.

[kearnyirish2]

I noticed it didn’t merit as much mention as it has in the past; I’d imagine that is because this country is increasingly populated by Third World populations that see “Earth Day” as a wealthy white people thing.

[longtermmemmory]

Disney uses it as an excuse to push some animal movie. (low cost to make and easy money)

earth day is going to be like boss’ day.

[eyedigress]

Is this the day I was supposed to turn all my electric devices on?

I can never keep up.

[longtermmemmory]

in the 1950s the us agriculture department was overwhelmed with communists actually holding jobs in there. It was a common knowledge thing.

I imagine the EPA is their current infestation.

[re_nortex]

One of the Earth Day consequences that we have is the EPA, which liberals and eco-nuts will gleefully remind us was signed into law by Richard Nixon. However, one of the most pertinent facts that liberals leave out of their diatribes is that, at the time, such an organization was needed.

I strongly disagree. As much as I respected RMN in 1960 when I was just a shade too young to vote for him, I campaigned unceasingly for him against JFK. The Nixon elected in 1968 bore scant resemblance to the brave fighter for Conservatism of eight years prior. He went soft by the time he rose to the presidency. The EPA was not needed then nor is it needed now.

I know whereof I speak on this matter. Although I was conceived in Texas, my father's death while fighting in WWII led to my mom moving to Pennsylvania during her pregnancy and although life begins as conception, my BC shows Pennsylvania. The tri-state region was still prosperous in the 40s, 50s and 60s when I was growing up. J&L, USS, Union Electric and host of other mills were running around the clock and nearly full-employment was the norm. Sure there was a faint whiff of that rotten egg smell in the air but that was the smell of prosperity. And, on many a weekend night, while out with my friends and our dates at the drive in, we could see the molten red flowing into the West Mifflin slag heap. In those pre-EPA days, you could see (and admittedly, smell) that the region was was an economic engine powering the world.

I don't get back very often, but when I do, I chat with the old-timers of my generation and their surviving parents. To a man, they'd give anything for the return of the so-called "Smoky City" and the prosperity of that era.

[cld51860]

Having an Earth Day offends the sensibilities almost as much as a “free speech zone.”

[qam1]

Yep,

The sad part is white Liberals are so stupid they don’t realize they are going to be the biggest losers if amnesty ever comes to pass.

Sure Mexicans love to vote for Progressive things as long as you keep the money flowing to them, but in reality they care little about the things white Liberals care about.

They come from very Macho cultures and could give a flying fig about Feminism, Gay rights, Animal rights or the Environment.

If Liberals think Conservatives want to let eeeeevvviiilll corporations pollute the environment, just wait until the millions Mexicans coming set up squatters camps at beaches and National and State parks around the country.

If the Queers think old White Conservatives are evil for not letting them force their “Marriage” on everyone, just wait to see how they are treated when they are under a majority Mexican rule.

And ladies, I hope the free birth control Obama gives you is worth it, because all these immigrants aren’t going to be too keen on paying the Social Security for a bunch of old white childless spinsters so they can sit around and throw birthday parties for their pets.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I went to an earth day event some years ago. They had people selling the solar panels, and water purification systems. There was a parrot club trying to get you to adopt a parrot. They had an electric car there. And the Hare Krishnas were there, entertaining all with their chants.

[colorado tanker]

Department of the Interior is pretty bad, too. They have “scientists” who are completely corrupt and will designate any little critter an endangered species. Out here they swear a common field mouse is “Preble’s Mouse” and is endangered. How do you tell a Preble’s from a field mouse? Preble’s lives on prime development land.

[Slump Tester]

Yesterday on Google, there was a dung beetle wishing everyone a happy earth day.

[longtermmemmory]

about 30-40 years ago, real scientists did not do government work. Those who worked for the government were considered rejects from academia and unqualified for the real world.

NASA had its best work results from outsourced production.

[Jacquerie]

I was supposed to march in an early morning protest on the first Earth Day, but instead of hitting snooze on my alarm, I hit off, and missed the march. My girlfriend broke up over that.

No loss, and as it worked out, its fair to say I slept through the rest of the enviro movement.

[Inyo-Mono]

Pagan Earth worship.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

After 30 years as the operator of a privately-owned public water supply company, I retired in January. I don’t have to deal with the a-holes at the epa anymore! HOORAY!

[driftless2]

Environmentalism is a religion. If some people don't pray to God, they will substitute some other kind of religion. Because they need a purpose in their lives. The earth then substitutes for God in their lives.

I'm not religious, but I know many religious people. They do not try to impress their religious views on me. Environmentalists are different. They will not be satisfied until everybody lives in a 12x12 crackerbox in a huge megalopolis. No cars, no planes, no machines, no guns... except for the enviro-elites. Nobody will be allowed outside their huge city so as not to "ruin" the earth. That is their goal. In that respect, they are as evil as the lunatic Islamists. They are the western version of the Taliban.

[elcid1970]

Yesterday a liberal told me to my face that the fact that the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 just happened to be the same day as the centenary of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (which was wildly celebrated in the Soviet Union) was nothing but PURE COINCIDENCE!!!!!

Some people aren’t even good liars anymore. Environmentalism is socialism, why not proclaim it so?

[Impala64ssa]

Weren’t one of the founders of earh day one Ira Einhorn, who killed his girlfriend in Philadeplphia and stuffed her in a trunk, then fled to France? They eventually extradited him back here where he was convicted and sentenced to life without parole, but not before he claimed the CIA killed her. (let’s see if 0 pardons him at the end of his term)