Posted on 04/22/2022 10:19:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: This piece was authored by Jeff Luse.
Earth Day, which was officially recognized in 1970, has enjoyed bipartisan support and received praise from presidents of both political parties. Historically presidential speeches have included complimentary language on America’s progress and economic ingenuity. In his 1993 Earth Day speech, for instance, President Clinton said, “First, we think you can’t have a healthy economy without a healthy environment…The fact is that only a prosperous society can have the confidence and the means to protect its environment.”
While this type of rhetoric is still expressed by some of our nation’s leaders, the broader environmental movement has seemed to have turned its back on Clinton’s pro-market, pro-environmental message. Domestically, activists are lobbying for big-government solutions including a mandated shift from fossil fuels entirely. Internationally, groups are leveling up their American counterparts and endorsing panic outright.
To reach the environmental goals of cleaner air, water, and a sustainable planet, expanding economic freedom is the answer.
Economic freedom, which The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom measuresby a country’s rule of law, size of government, regulatory efficiency, and market openness, has been shown to improve the health of the planet and its people. In a C3 Solutions report called “Free Economies are Clean Economies,” we found that “mostly free” economies, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Index scored twice as high on Yale’s Environmental Performance Index than “mostly unfree” economies.
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I’m going to look for an old tire or two to burn in my back yard.
Just noticed a stupid “Happy Earth Day” logo on the Hallmark channel.
Commie libs been pushing things then their bully pulpits for YEARS; only got WORSE with COVID AND BLM riots recently.
To wit, where are the polls about how many people actually give a damn about “holidays” like “Earth Day”?
Earth Day sure is pushed by all the schools, and it’s on all the TV channels. More and more in grocery chains. You’d think it was a “thing”. But outside that nonsense, I don’t hear of it.
You have to hand it to Ira Einhorn, a primo speaker at the first Earth Day celebration. Ira Einhorn is a true environmentalist since he believes in composting. He murdered his former girlfriend, cut up her body and stuffed her in a suitcase that he kept in his apartment closet. After her body was discovered Ira spent years on the lam in Europe to avoid prosecution for her murder. He was finally caught, put on trial, convicted and is now in the hoosecow.
He is a tribute to the Earth Day radicals.
And he picked Lennin’s BAY. ( It’s also my Pops.)
“Earth first! We’ll strip mine the other planets later.”
I thought he died a year or two ago.
Oh yes, that bastard.
I watched a crime show on that probably a decade ago. Knew he was some prominent hippie, but didn’t recall that tie-in.
This was before the French jerks would extradite him, so he was still free and the US just had a mock trial with a non-existent defendant.
Disgusting what he did. The trunk with her in it in the closet, oozing out body fluid to the apartment below. Sick SOB.
I haven’t seen this posted yet, so here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4 Happy Earth Day!
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