Posted on 04/23/2021 6:01:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
China has snaffled the planet out from under the United States, but that's no reason for the moth-eaten sock-puppet in the Oval Office not to demonstrate that he's still a power to be reckoned with by holding an Earth Day summit on climate change.
In the old days, Earth Day for politicians just meant presidents and prime ministers had to be flown somewhere to be photographed planting a tree. Alas, a year of lockdown has given then a taste for something grander and more economically devastating. In a political culture incapable of talking about anything that matters, the exhausted rituals of our dying civilization take on an ever greater pseudo-urgency.
Anyway, in honor of the latest stupid pointless summit, I thought I'd rerun a few highlights from Earth Days of yore. In 2002, in The National Post of Canada, I offered a quick compilation album of greatest hits from the early days of the movement - "Apocalypse Soon":
In 1968, in his best-selling book The Population Bomb, scientist Paul Ehrlich declared: "In the 1970s the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.”
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Summit for nothing, and chicks for free.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist the Dire Straits reference)
-——Earth Day for politicians just meant presidents and prime ministers had to be flown somewhere——
That can’t happen in America. The President can’t be depended on to safely board his air plans.
Bookmark
The Population Bomb, scientist Paul Ehrlich declared: “In the 1970s the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.”
The only dying was in communist countries. Murder.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.