Earth Day

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Today is Earth Day..



What do you do to make the earth a better place? What do you plan on doing to help the earth?

 

[Evil Eye]

Is it? Hmm, I missed it then.

What do you do to make the earth a better place?

Not much I'm afraid...

 

[Masri]

Oh, I had no idea it was Earth Day.



I really should do more. I don't do anything at all to help the Earth.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Well it is. I changed my avy to support it.

 

[Evil Eye]

Well it is. I changed my avy to support it.

it being Firefox?

 

[Corleone]

Nothing. JK

I've been taking more showers than baths.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

it being Firefox?

It was an earth on earth day. I changed it the next day.

 

[Evil Eye]

It was an earth on earth day. I changed it the next day.

I noticed

Looks like your warning us for a) huge floods or

giant space fox attacks now...

 

[DrLeftover]

22 April

The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility took a swipe at the EPA for sending bureaucrat Gina McCarthy on an greenhouse gas generating five city tour for Earth Day.

Administrator McCarthy will undertake a greenhouse gas laden week-long tour that will "far exceed" any benefit from her climate change proselytizing.

“Frenetically jetting around the country appears to undercut [the] EPA’s message to ordinary Americans that they should conserve, consume less and reduce transportation pollution,” PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement.

McCarthy will be participating in "various events to...focus on responsible steps to cut carbon pollution to slow the effects of climate change" in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta and Memphis.

Some activities on the tour were called into question.

Ruch noted that some events on McCarthy’s itinerary have questionable ties to promoting climate action, such as joining Energy Secretary Moniz to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Tuesday's Red Sox vs. Yankees baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park.

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/04/22/EPA-Faces-Criticism-for-Decadent-Energy-Wasting-Earth-Day-Tour

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I used the grill and burned as much propane as possible.
Let my van idle for long periods of time burning lots of fossil fuels'
Opened all my windows in my house and cranked up the air conditioner to cool down the neighborhood.
Its hard to take this day seriously when it was literately started by communists.

 

[Jazzy]

Its hard to take this day seriously when it was literately started by communists.

Must have missed the communists part when I read this:

Question: Who Invented Earth Day?

Earth Day is celebrated every year in more than 180 nations worldwide, but who first had the idea for Earth Day and got the celebration started? Who invented Earth Day?

Answer: U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, is usually credited with conceiving the idea for the first Earth Day celebration in the United States, but he wasn't the only person to come up with a similar idea at about the same time.

Read more

 

[DrLeftover]

No, it was not founded by communists.

Sorry.

More:

How the First Earth Day Came About

By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day

What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start? These are the questions I am most frequently asked.

Actually, the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. For several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country. Finally, in November 1962, an idea occurred to me that was, I thought, a virtual cinch to put the environment into the political "limelight" once and for all. The idea was to persuade President Kennedy to give visibility to this issue by going on a national conservation tour. I flew to Washington to discuss the proposal with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who liked the idea. So did the President. The President began his five-day, eleven-state conservation tour in September 1963. For many reasons the tour did not succeed in putting the issue onto the national political agenda. However, it was the germ of the idea that ultimately flowered into Earth Day.

I continued to speak on environmental issues to a variety of audiences in some twenty-five states. All across the country, evidence of environmental degradation was appearing everywhere, and everyone noticed except the political establishment. The environmental issue simply was not to be found on the nation's political agenda. The people were concerned, but the politicians were not.

After President Kennedy's tour, I still hoped for some idea that would thrust the environment into the political mainstream. Six years would pass before the idea that became Earth Day occurred to me while on a conservation speaking tour out West in the summer of 1969. At the time, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, called "teach-ins," had spread to college campuses all across the nation. Suddenly, the idea occurred to me - why not organize a huge grassroots protest over what was happening to our environment?
...

http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Socialist Control, Earth Day, and Lenin’s Birthday
Submitted by Donald R. May on April 22, 2014 - 12:24am

It was not coincidental that the first Earth Day was on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin. There are no real coincidences when it comes to Socialism.

The Left was looking for a way to continue its attack on Capitalism if the Vietnam War were to end. Forty-four years ago on 22 April, some of the Earth Day supporters made their wild assertions:

“I’m scared,” Paul Ehrlich wrote in the 1970 Earth Day issue of Look. “I have a 14-year-old daughter whom I love very much. I know a lot of young people, and their world is being destroyed.

“My world is being destroyed. I’m 37 and I’d kind of like to live to be 67 in a reasonably pleasant world, and not die in some kind of holocaust in the next decade.”

Lord willing and the creek doesn’t rise, Ehrlich will turn 78 [82 on 29 May 2014] next month.

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something,” ecologist Kenneth Watt said at Swarthmore College in 1970.

Well, we must have done something right. We’re still here.

Maybe it was the leisure suits that saved us. That makes about as much sense as anything else.

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner for a 1970 Earth Day issue of “Environment,” a scientific journal.

He did not put an end date to his prediction. But Ehrlich did.

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Ehrlich said in 1970.

“The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

Ehrlich was an optimist compared to Denis Hayes, an aide to Nelson, the chief organizer for the first Earth Day.

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” Hayes said.

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa.

“By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions . . . By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

Obesity, not famine, is the world’s pandemic today. I guess that settled science – “demographers agree almost unanimously” – isn’t necessarily good science.

READ THE REST HERE.
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/donald-r-may/2014-04-22/socialist-control-earth-day-and-lenin%E2%80%99s-birthday

 

[Evil Eye]

Its hard to take this day seriously when it was literately started by communists.

Why?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Its hard to take this day seriously when it was literately started by communists.

Why?

Because they are communists. And "earth day" was just a cover.

 

[DrLeftover]

If you wish to continue to believe totally debunked propaganda, then we have nothing left to say to each other.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Hardly propaganda and never debunked. But each to there own.

 

[DrLeftover]

Hardly propaganda and never debunked. But each to there own.

Then please provide outside reference links to directly associate Mr. Nelson and the founding of the idea with the knowing and deliberate debut of Earth Day on said birthday.

The gentlemen has supplied sufficient reference to the idea that would support the conclusion that the original concept had nothing to do with Lenin.

However, I will admit that since then, the "Earther Left", including the Sierra Club and its cohorts, have been highjacked by the Socialist side of things and that since then, the 'day' has had more than one coat of paint applied by them.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Just because something was "credited" to someone for something or an idea in the history books doesn't mean it's true or a fact...

For an example, in history books, the blame on 9/11 was that terrorist group that lives in caves...

I agree with that statement. But the example could start a whole new debate.

 

[DrLeftover]

Of course, everybody knows it was really done by Carl Rove to keep CNN from going bankrupt.