Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/22/2008 2:52:01 PM PDT by Ed Hudgins
[An oldie-but-goodie from 4/22/2005, appropriate for Earth Day and the environmentalist cult.]
April 22, 2005 -- Today is a religious holiday that should make us all into atheists. April 22, 2005, marks the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. For many people it's simply a day to think warm and fuzzy thoughts about clean air, crystal lakes, verdant forests and soaring eagles. Until the 1990s May Day marked the worship by the communists of an abstraction called the "workers" at the expense of real flesh-and-blood workers and every other human being on the planet. The result was human carnage. Now Earth Day marks the worship by eco-extremists of the planet itself at the expense of all we humans who inhabitant it. If the cult continues to grow, the results will be the same as that wrought by the Reds.
There is nothing wrong with individuals wanting to keep woods, flowers, ponds and the like on their own private property for their own enjoyment, nor with wanting to reduce the real, measurable damage caused to humans, for example, by air and water pollution. In any case, the worst pollution problems have pretty much been dealt with in past decades.
But today the eco-extremists have converted legitimate concerns into a cult. Tell someone you don't recycle, for example, and they treat you like someone might have a century ago if you made fun of Jesus. When recycling makes economic and environmental sense, a market develops for the recycled items and there is no need for government involvement. (As a kid I collected newspapers to sell to recycling centers to earn spending money.) But often recycling imposes millions of dollars in net costs and harms the environment...
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Do you think is just a coincidence that Earth Day was selected to be on Vladimir Lenin’s birthday?
I guess “Take Your Daughter To Work” Day had the same inspiration. You would have thought they would have scheduled it in the summer when school was out.
At least Lenin and the commies claimed to want to better the material conditions of human beings. They went in for big hydroelectric dams, subways, steel mills and the like, though thousands of slave laborors died building them. The eco-nuts are openly anti-human and many would certainly use Lenin’s tactics.
Hitler's birthday too.
Today is Earth Day. I spent the whole day on earth, so I guess I can say I observed the holiday.
If the most radical eco-sxtremists had their way, there would be no humans on “Mother Earth.”
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