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How liberals killed Earth Day
The Washington Times ^ | April 19, 2024 | Tom Basile

Posted on 04/21/2024 2:22:51 PM PDT by ebb tide

How liberals killed Earth Day

OPINION:

Earth Day used to be a celebration of our individual and collective responsibility to protect the planet and improve human health. It was about science and data. Unfortunately, today, Earth Day has little to do with the planet and more to do with far-left agendas meant to increase control over the population.

The paint-throwing, street-blocking activists will be out in force pushing their narrative of climate doom, more than happy to ignore science in the process. The media will reflexively add credibility to the nonsense.

President Biden will tout the importance of some patently unachievable electric vehicle or emissions goal. Social media Pied Pipers will play their silly tune about how more of our money in the hands of runaway bureaucracy can change the temperature of the Earth.  



Today’s socialist Democrats have used climate change to alter the national conversation from reasoned environmental protection to an irrational, emotionally damaging hysteria only loosely based on science.

As was laid bare at the height of the pandemic, far-left liberals in America are willing to be openly anti-science to drive their agenda of division and control. They routinely ignore or deny the substantial environmental progress that the United States has made in the last half a century, as well as the nation’s long-standing leadership role in environmental protection.

They ignore that even before the breathless push for electric vehicles and emissions caps, the U.S. was beating Europe in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. They ignore that while geologic history and environmental science make clear that the climate changes, there is little scientific data to support any effort by the U.S. government or Western governments collectively to affect the planet’s temperature.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: chat; climatechange; climatechangehoax; climatehoax; earthday; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; lenin; leninsbirthday; liars; notnews; nwo; tombasile; treehuggers
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“Environmentalism is deeply embedded in the veins of Islam. It is about personal behavior and how it manifests itself in our association with others and also about being considerate in our relationship with the natural world and other sentient beings,” according to a U.N. statement.

1 posted on 04/21/2024 2:22:51 PM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 04/21/2024 2:23:55 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Some local volunteers did a stream and woods clean up, which is exactly what my neighborhood did fifty years ago.

Conservative, liberal, a good way to come together and make the town better.


3 posted on 04/21/2024 2:34:10 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: ebb tide
I advise friends and associates to use this environmental idiocy to convince their ESG-infected employers to let them work remotely 100% of the time.

I've yet to have someone tell me they WEREN'T successful in this. LOL.

4 posted on 04/21/2024 2:40:57 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: ebb tide

Correct me if I’m wrong. Wasn’t earth day started by a guy who murdered his girlfriend and hid her body in a trunk. Or is that some other ‘holiday’?


5 posted on 04/21/2024 2:48:51 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: ebb tide
Unfortunately, today, Earth Day has little to do with the planet and more to do with far-left agendas meant to increase control over the population.

It was always about this. You'd be naive to have thought otherwise.
6 posted on 04/21/2024 2:51:36 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: ebb tide

You ever see the Washington Mall, after Earth Day? It took two days to pick up all the trash they left behind.


7 posted on 04/21/2024 2:53:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hanamizu

Kwanzaa was started by the Long Beach State professor who killed his gf. I always thought Erf Day was to celebrate Vladimir Lenin’s b-day.


8 posted on 04/21/2024 3:02:51 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: hanamizu

No. You’re thinking of Ira Einhorn, who claimed to have been involved in the founding, but it wasn’t true.


9 posted on 04/21/2024 3:04:16 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: hanamizu

Correct. Ira Einhorn also chose the date of Earth Day because it is the birth date of a certain V. I. Lenin.


10 posted on 04/21/2024 3:05:00 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: heartwood

I bought my little God daughter an Earth Day t-shirt in the late 1980s.

I’ve since come to regret that.


11 posted on 04/21/2024 3:07:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: 17th Miss Regt
...who claimed to have been involved in the founding, but it wasn’t true.

No? I thought he was, but I would be interested to know whether the monster stepped in after the beginning of Lenin's birthday Earth Day.

12 posted on 04/21/2024 3:08:17 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: hanamizu

The way I understood it, it is. If you admire a murderer, it is the day for you.


13 posted on 04/21/2024 3:09:08 PM PDT by sport
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To: dfwgator

That’s funny, since Earth Day was originally created over a concern for environmental pollution. (The only thing people thought about ‘Climate Change’, back then was that we’d die in ice, not in fire.)


14 posted on 04/21/2024 3:14:10 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ebb tide
Yea.
“It is about personal behavior and how it manifests itself in our association with others and also about being considerate in our relationship with the natural world and other sentient beings.

Right out of the Hellenic Culture that both Jews,Muslims and Christian took from and pretty much anybody else around the Near East and Mediterranean.

15 posted on 04/21/2024 3:15:34 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: ebb tide

They still ignore their real founder of Earth day, Ira Einhorn who murdered and composted his girlfriend.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42711922


16 posted on 04/21/2024 3:34:14 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: broken_clock; hanamizu

Whew! Thank you! I was about to guess “George Washington’s Birthday.” I would have been so embarassed


17 posted on 04/21/2024 3:36:02 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: hanamizu

Kwanzaa


18 posted on 04/21/2024 3:38:10 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
'Although Einhorn was only the master of ceremonies at the first Earth Day event, he maintains that Earth Day was his idea and that he's responsible for launching it. Understandably, Earth Day's organizers have distanced themselves from his name, citing Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist and former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator who died in 2005, as Earth Day's official founder and organizer.

'According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day in the spring of 1970 as a way to bring national awareness to the fact that, at the time, there were no legal or regulatory mechanisms in place to protect the environment. About 20 million participants at various Earth Day events across the U.S. made Earth Day a success, and in December of 1970, Congress authorized the creation of a new federal agency to tackle environmental issues — the EPA.'

19 posted on 04/21/2024 3:41:52 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

‘According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...’


Well, we can be assured that the U.S. E.P.A. is a trusted and unbiased source on the foundation of Earth Day. /s


20 posted on 04/21/2024 3:47:14 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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