We have arrived at a breathtaking
point in both our lives and that of the Earth’s; we have reached the 50th
anniversary of Earth Day.
From a compilation of internet
sources – the very same ones that give us solid, unwavering environmental data
– Earth Day is an annual event created in 1970 to celebrate the planet’s
environment and raise awareness about pollution.
I have long been a vocal critic
of the phoniness of the awareness raisers, and apologize for nothing except my
lenience.
Not to beat a dead horse, since
its 1970 inception, Earth Day has undergone numerous iterations to suit data
that was inputted, exported, and finally analyzed. One year the planet was on the verge of
freezing, then boiling the next.
Government officials stood in
line to pander for votes from the already aware, making outlandish promises and
spending valuable tax dollars to ensure re-election. All the while, those voters began to blindly
attack non-believers by attempting to level legislation to incarcerate and
re-educated anyone not toeing the line.
One president turned hot water
off in government restrooms to prevent burning foreign fossil fuels, thereby
protecting the atmosphere from carbon emissions. Other presidents demanded cars and trucks be
made of lightweight metals, plastics, and be powered by rubber bands, to
further save oil and the environment, at the expense of human lives.
Today’s news is much less damning
with a reprieve from overtaxing average citizens to buy some ecological con
called “carbon credits.” We’re further
spared the nonsense spouted by the self-anointed actors and fake scientists
among us, who daily claim to hold the knowledge and subsequent answers to
reverse our planetary slide into oblivion.
Rather, we are now being treated
to more humane nagging and pestering about something called corona virus/COVID-19. Listening to television’s fake news readers
hysterically cry about this illness-producing virus is a reprieve over the
madness about our quickly perishing environmental civilization.
Yes, congresspeople have seemed
to lose their collective minds, frantically citing specific dates for the end
of the Earth if no action is taken, and taken immediately.
What action? Tax increases, of course. More manufacturing of solar panels, no
drilling or mining for fossil fuels, no fracking, no outdoor grills, no
fireplaces, and the manufacture of automobiles made of Papier Mâchét.
Suddenly with the advent of the
international COVID-19 pandemic, none of these great thinkers can fathom a plan
to save us. Are all the really good
ideas taken?
Absolutely not. Earth Day is a way of pontificating to the
common folk that they are not as enlightened as the environmental and social elites. Bill Nye, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cher, Halle
Berry, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Jessica Alba, Stella
McCarthy, Olivia Wilde, John Legend, and Charlize Theron, are just a few of the
many has-beens trying maintain a grip on the rope of fame by showing who can
suffer more in these end-times.
Their private jets and filtered
toilet water remains a full step lower than using Perrier to flush their
commodes. All the while they sternly lecture us peons over how we waste and
need to cease immediately.
One demented
politician created some nonsensical idea called Green New Deal, á la President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 New Deal economics program. Yeah, that demented politician couldn’t even
come up with a unique title for spending an estimated $93,000,000,000,000. If not implemented, she predicts the Earth
will disappear in twelve years. I say
let’s roll the dice on this one.
In any case,
the COVID-19 crisis has shed new light on the past Earth Day brain trust
ideas. Let’s examine them.
- Ridding society of plastic shopping bags in lieu of reusable bags
- Outlawing disposable paper and plastic cups
- Force the public onto mass transit i.e.: buses, subways, light rail, shared rides, carpools
- Legalize marijuana smoking
- Banning Styrofoam plates and restaurant goods
The ability of
the public to promptly and efficiently dispose of used shopping bags, drinking
cups, and Styrofoam products may well have created a vehicle by which COVID-19
became and/or remains a threat to civilization.
Making people
abandon their personal vehicles for close-quartered means of mass transit
further endangers our future. Poor
planning, I would say.
Based on this
abbreviated list, the prohibition and interdiction of common, everyday items
for the perceived good of a 4,500,000,000 year-old planet straddles the border
of narcissistic and obscene.
So let’s take this opportunity to
end this Earth Day nonsense once and for all before these geniuses kill us in
the name of the environment.
