Artist Kong Ning, following the coronavirus outbreak, prepares for a portrait in a wearable art piece she made to mark Earth Day, Beijing, China, April 22, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
Posted on 04/22/2020 2:27:45 PM PDT by Bruiser 10
For most Americans, it’s just another day of anxiety-producing quarantine as the unemployment rates continue to skyrocket, and they wonder whether the coronavirus-induced recession is going to turn into a depression. For others, there’s a silver lining. This year’s celebration of “Earth Day” is giving environmental alarmists some grim satisfaction. While most people are lamenting the collapse of the economy, some activists are happy that the earth is being given a “rest” from the ravages of capitalism.
In the weeks leading up to the annual environmental festival, there has been a steady stream of commentary on “the gifts of the coronavirus,” as one Psychology Today headline put it, that have provided some green balm for angry planet.
Leftists often insist that the Right disrespects science. But there is no scientific study or analysis supporting the notion that the pandemic is “Mother Nature’s revenge” for economic development — development that has, by the way, reduced poverty worldwide. For those who have long argued that an imminent global-warming apocalypse is “payback” for our destruction of nature, it’s a short step to paint the coronavirus as Earth’s way of saying “I’ll get rid of you” to humanity — as actor Idris Elba recently told Oprah in a video interview. A host of other leftists, including “professor emeritus of peace and national-security studies” Michael Klare and CounterPunch’s Evaggelos Valliantos, have issued similar rants.
But the effort to link the pandemic to environmentalism isn’t confined to fever-swamp pundits or celebrities. The same theme was sounded by global-warming rock star Greta Thunberg and by Britain’s Prince Charles (as always, a lagging indicator of fashionable pseudo-intellectual comment on any topic) in his otherwise anodyne Earth Day message.
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I’m making a point of driving my car with the top down and AC turned on full blast.
I celebrate Earth Day by killing a girlfriend who has the audacity to leave me and stuff her body in my closet.My neighbors complain about the stench...but that’s their problem.
“Ravages of capitalism”?? If one looks at history, the communist/socialist countries were by far the worst polluters.
I’m gonna burn some tires.
I’d rather celebrate Kwanzaa.
That’s terrible. You should really think about clubbing baby seals for grief therapy.
On my drive home, I’ll obey the speed limit. But I’m not going above third gear.
I always throw plastic recyclables in my garbage on Earth Day.
Do not kill your ex-girlfriend and stuff her body in a trunk.
I was thinking of burning some tires and having a mashmallow roast :^)
I’m going to reflect upon the past predictions of the experts of Climate Change Conspiracy (aka Global Warming & Global Cooling) predictions:
Children will no longer ever experience snow again, or
The Statue of Liberty will be under water due to ocean rises, or
Climate Change will cause more earthquakes (my favorite by the rented theoretical physicist on MSM).
I celebrated by going to a local creek and pouring a can of motor oil in it.
I did throw the can in a nearby garbage container though.
Then I felt guilty about what I did and tipped the garbage container over.
Just. Ignore. Why celebrate stupidity?
I thought Ira Einhorn passed away earlier this year?!
April 22, 1970
Vlad Lenin’s 100th birthday
First “Earth Day”
No, it’s not a coincidence. The environmentalist who helped found it — Ira Einhorn — aka the “Unicorn Killer — and convicted murderer and his compatriots were committed communists who believe socialism would heal the Earth.
Artist Kong Ning, following the coronavirus outbreak, prepares for a portrait in a wearable art piece she made to mark Earth Day, Beijing, China, April 22, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
I’m fixing to fire up the lawnmower. Last week I organized a national backyard campout. 5000 families in 50 states joined in. Probably 3000 had carbon spewing campfires polluting the atmosphere. I win.
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