We recently passed Earth Day 2024 on the calendar without much hoopla. And this morning’s television news splashed several stories on the screen about copious and violent storms making their way across America.
Of course tornadoes are a regular part of the weather, but especially so in the Spring. Patterns of violent storms often form and subsequently travel cross-country from west to east, wreaking havoc on unsuspecting residents while destroying homes along the way.
Not limited to just tornadoes, North America, as well as every other nation, are subject to destructive forces which include flooding, gale-force winds, hail, lightning, earthquakes, ice storms, blizzards, plus crippling heat. And regularly, following one of the events, we are lectured about our shortcomings as tenants of the Earth.
Blame always seems to be freely-flowing from the powers-that-be directed squarely at hard-working, honest, caring people who the anointed-among-us blame us for the adverse conditions that occasionally strike.
Earth Day was contrived in 1970, to “raise awareness about environmental issues,” per Earthday.org. And what great job they’ve done.
Over the decades, countless organizations, businesses, guvment agencies, schools, non-government organizations (NGO), and institutions of higher learning, have all been among those who readily embraced this world-wide grift.
However, the grift transformed into a multinational scam within just a few years. Suddenly, the “awareness” transformed into regulations, modifications in lifestyles became legislation, suggestions morphed into threats of arrest, all in the name of the environment.
What was once a dog-and-pony-show with poster boards, banners, and plastic water bottles advertising a woke cause, transformed into something unforeseen in the think tank.
Discovering a virtually bottomless pit of money available for the new catch phrase: “Save the Planet,” did not go unnoticed. Normally reserved for desperate times, those three words changed the narrative of Earth Day from a cottage industry into a bigger than big business.
Grants were quickly conjured up from whole cloth to rescue our now-propaganda drowning populace, all in the name of fear.
Not wanting to miss out on a few drops of the guvment gravy train, huge corporations discovered they could simply attach a “green” label to a product to get the attention of consumers. “Green” denoting the eco-friendly fad soared to new levels, as did prices associated therewith.
Not unlike “organic” fruits, vegetables, eggs, wool, and coffee, green products became the rage commanding nose-bleed prices, all in the name of Saving the Planet.
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Those same newly hatched youngsters discovered something they deemed “recycling” to prevent our dumps from filling up. They cleverly thought that rather than tossing plastic bottles and metal cans into the trash, they could better be remanufactured into carpets, bicycles, and clothing.
Glass bottles that were too inconvenient to use as “deposit returns” for milk, beer, soft drinks, and oil, began to be re-imagined in a new light. Deposits of a few cents per bottle were once deemed cumbersome, even petty, and thereby simply stopped by businesses at the cost of consumers. Into the dump they went.
But now those same bottles were supposed to be recycled to save landfill space, and therefore the environment. Special plastic bins were made from irreplaceable fossil fuels for use by every household for enthusiastic recycling efforts. Those bins were to be emptied by special garbage trucks on special pickups to Save the Planet. Don’t worry that using extra fuel for the special garbage trucks would generate additional pollution.
Finding golden nuggets among the newly-anointed was fairly easy when it came to recycling not only trash, but also ideas.
In addition to bottle and can recycling were brilliant ideas from the shallow thinkers of today’s youth. It seems as though someone picked up a 1950’s copy of Popular Mechanics – a long-time magazine that featured ideas, and technologies, for many years. And years ago an idea called ‘solar energy’ was featured therein.
This idea of transforming energy from the Sun into electricity isn’t novel. Wafer-like panels consisting of silicon were made to harness the Sun’s rays. Using the photovoltaic effect to convert light into energy is nothing new; it is, however, still inefficient and expensive.
With promises of homeowners recouping their investments in solar panels, sales skyrocketed. But it wasn’t the windfall promised by slick solar energy dealers. Virtually guaranteeing the homeowner would be selling excess generated electricity to the power companies was a no-brainer.
Alas, all was not as it seemed. Many of those solar panels were, and are still, made in China and the companies often fall into bankruptcy following only a few months in business. This exercise leaves consumers with non-functional and under performing panels, with no recourse.
Still, our greedy politicians and eco-business owners are dead set on Saving the Planet. If only we could muster a few more billion dollars, we would all survive.
Becoming the new religion of our youth – as well as child-like minded adults – Earth Day has progressed to propagandize tornadoes, flooding, gale-force winds, hail, lightning, earthquakes, ice storms, blizzards, plus crippling heat, into causes for planetary modification, without question or debate.
Of course they are wrong and merely seeking their next proverbial meal at the guvment grant teat. And who can blame them? Easy “work” if you can get it.
Everything everywhere is not critical to our survival, but lies and half-truths are doing more harm both mentally and financially, with no end in sight. Lighten up.
Sigmund Freud said it best: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
