Earth Day was a fake Holiday invented to support the far left, Marxist, anti-Humanity (Population Bomb Phobia) movement. | Earth Day was a fake Holiday invented to support the far left, Marxist, anti-Humanity (Population Bomb Phobia) movement. The early message wasn't resonated so they moved to more green and less soylent green. The founders were kooks and criminals, the cause would hurt humanity, but if you sell anything with peace and love, the rubes and sheep will follow. |
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-04-17
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While I don't really care what causes people support (even stupid ones), I do like people to be informed the on the stupid causes they support, who is behind them, and why. Follow the money.
Detractors of Earth Day claiming it's a green wrapping around Marxist agendas, while the proponents claim, "No. It's all moderate folks just trying to protect our planet and peace". When you research the history of Earth Day, it becomes obvious which side is informed, and which isn't. The first Earth Day was held on the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin... and that wasn't by accident.
To remember how worthy a Holiday is, it's best to remember who created it, why, and what has come of it. So to understand why the informed think Earth Day is a leftist front for anti-capitalism and watermelon environmentalism, you have to first understand the people who started the movement, and why.
Earth Day, Founders • [10 items]
| Saul Alinsky
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| Far, far left fanatic/mentor of the DNC. Post-modern Marxist believe the ends justified the means. Believed that undermining/subverting the established is good. Ala Sixteen Candles, Saul is king of dipshits (I judge him and his followers by each other). With him, all paths lead to tearing down what we have, and rebuilding after the resulting revolution.
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| Paul R. Ehrlich
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| Winner of many accolades for repeatedly being wrong: authoring the discredited and derrivative Population Bomb (regurgitating Malthusian Catastrophe via environmental Tragedy of the commons and popularizing the Global Cooling scare. The former disproved long before he authored/championed them. The latter flipped a few years after he made them.
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| Ira Einhorn
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| Earth Day Co-founder is Ira Einhorn, was famous in the counterculture, anti-establishment, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Master of Ceremonies for the first Earth Day. In 1977 he became known as the "The Unicorn Killer" after his ex-girlfriend (Holly Maddux) was found mummified in a trunk in his closet: packed in Styrofoam pellets, air fresheners, and newspapers.
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| Dennis Hayes
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| Often called the Founder of Earth Day, Vietnam war protestor, ran overseas to get away from America, whined about how man was causing Global Cooling, his anti-logging efforts lead to huge forrest fires. Just a lifetime loser trying to find importance in some cause (any cause).
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| John McConnell
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| The forgotten first founder of Earth Day was Pentecostal John McConnell who sponsored food for Hong Kong refugees, and later "a minute for peace" to just think about peace and the wellbeing of others for one minute a day. But his ideas were perverted to rationalize taxes, laws, regulations and attention seekers exploiting his ideas for their own agendas.
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| Ralph Nader
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| Known for repeated failures: Presidential Candidate for the Green (and Red) Party, support of Earth Day, his Anti-Nuclear efforts that did far more harm to the environment than millions of other individuals could have. The most instrusive government regulation and any other far left, anti-business cause, was always his favorite.
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| Gaylord Nelson
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| Earth Day's Marxist activist and Co-Founder was a Pi Kappa Phi frat-boy, anti-war activist, environmentalist, population control advocate. One of only 3 Democrats to vote to oppose Gerald Ford for Vice President. Avid supporter of radical leftists violence and vandalism that anti-capitalist (pro-environementalism) hippie-protests were doing in the 1960s and 1970s.
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| Organized Labor and Earth Day
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| When Earth Day was started, many of the organizers mentioned that without the hyper-progressive (marxist) UAW and AFL-CIO money and support, they couldn't have got this "Holiday" off the ground. Ironic that the far left Socialist Workers organizations didn't realize that the far left Environmental organizations would turn on them, and work to end the formers existence.
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| Sierra Club
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| My Uncle was a gay card-carrying-Communist: seriously, he'd take out his Communist card and show anyone. He was also a fan of the Sierra Club because of the overlap in ideology. I learned early in my youth that this coupling of far-left movements was not the exception but more the norm. If you hate civilization, then Marxism and protecting the environment overlap a lot.
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| John Tanton
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| Earth Day was anti-population/anti-humanity (pro-birth-control, sterilization, pro-abortion, eugenics, racism, anti-immigration). John Tanton, early earth day supporter, and founder of many America First, anti-Immigration charities and non-profits (FAIR, U.S. English, ProEnglish, The Social Contract, and Society for Genetic Education).
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| In honor of an invented fake-Holiday (Earth Day/Week), my office celebrated voluntary meatless Monday. I'm not sure what one has to do with the other.... what I'm sure of is that celebrating a Holiday invented by watermelon's (green on the outside, red on the inside), loons and kooks, to celebrate peace and balance by taking away people's choices (to get meat), is something so hypocritical, and so the new normal in California. |
- 1970 -, Walter Cronkite, Video of first Earth Day, tries to spin the lack of attendance of mostly spoiled white kids as some significant event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=WbwC281uzUs
- 1970 - Others were doing their best to exaggerate why they were needed (while making a mockery of why they were needed), like wearing a gas-mask to smell the flowers: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/an-earth-day-icon-unmasked-607188/
- 1970 - First day had things like mock funerals of ‘polluting’ objects (automobiles to toilets), they collected piles of litter and then staged “dump-ins” (nothing says caring about the environment like polluting in the name of it), students offered rice and tea as an example of the “hunger diet” we could expect because of overpopulation caused worldwide famine in a few years, or destroying a car with sledgehammers after a mock trial (students weren't able to do much to the car), and so on. It was retarded exaggeration that appeals to youth and the ignorant alike: http://time.com/3822575/earth-day-history/
- 1970 - The EPA was created, and grew into an bureaucratic behemoth that has done more to harm the environment and economy than help it. (Most people don't remember that most of the clean up was done before the EPA was created, and if anything, the EPA slowed the rate of improvement).
- 1990 - Hollywood virtue signals by being fully behind Earth Day: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255132/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
- 1990 - Protest list shows what the little snowflakes are all about - zoo, elephants will trample aluminum cans to promote recycling, wearing of gas masks to protest auto emissions, a human chain is symbolic of something (the bondage and conformity environmentalists demand?), protest highways and bridges for the evil job they do of making the world more habitable, and so on: http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/earth-day-celebrations-and-protests-are-planned-sunday-in-countries/article_dd38ce22-dd54-576c-bfd3-72221eaa7a56.html
- 2000 - Jeffery Ball of WSJ wrote, "Launched in 1970 as a protest against corporate environmental misconduct, Earth Day has become a planet-hugging marketing frenzy for companies themselves. Makers of everything from snack chips to sport-utility vehicles now use April 22 to boast about their efforts to help save the planet.": https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120882986342933569
- 2015 - Politicians exploited Earth Day as well. James Inhofe is observed Earth Day saluted environmental gains (the most significant had happened before Earth Day), and warnings against trillion-dollar, job-killing "scare tactics.": https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/4/post-d8ef1fa3-b222-09c3-28a6-c3826b8f740c
- 2018 - Denis Hayes is still out there pimping his fear: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/earth-day-2018-focuses-on-plastic-pollution/
Earth Day Predictions[edit source]
 - “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” ~ George Wald
- “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” ~ NYT
- Paul Ehrlich has a rich history of being wrong (which is why he wins so many lefty accolades),
- “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make... The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." ~ Mademoiselle, April 1970
- "...between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the 'Great Die-Off.'", rant in the Earth Day issue of The Progressive
- “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich predicted 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
- DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. ~ Audubon, May 1970. (NOTE: life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).
- “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
- “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.” ~Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor
- “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” ~ January 1970, Life Magazine
- Ecologist Kenneth Watt had a few losers:
- “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” ~ Time Magazine
- “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
- the pending Ice Age, “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years... If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
- Prediction: decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate ~ Barry Commoner
- Scientific American published a chart (Quoting Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences) that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
- "in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” ~ Look Magazine, quoting Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley (secretary of the Smithsonian Institute).
So what did we learn about eco-scare-mongers, if you know how wrong they were on everything they predicted in the past? |
Earth Day has always been about Scare Tactics. First it was Global Cooling and littering. Then it was that we were running out of landfills, peak oil (and all other resources), and later global warming. Once it stopped warming, they switched the terminology to "Climate Change". There was destruction of rain forests or wetlands was one of their scares. Always there's been extinction of species that would be the end of us (like the Beepocalypse. Now it is plastic waste or ocean acidification. Chicken little is desperate to get your attention.
There's a ton of silly exploitation in the name of the planet. Like going to electric cars which are browner in every way but tailpipe emissions (which is the least of our problems). Another example I like is Apple. In order to up their green cred, they go to all these environmentally safe materials for their cables, that wear out faster and create more pollution than they help. But if they try to work with Greenpeace or other environmental loons to explain, "if we use a little of this plastic, it'll reduce wear and save in the long run", those are nuances that beyond environmental activists. They demand being greener, by using materials that are far more wasteful to the environment.
In announcing the first Earth Day celebration, the Cleveland Press headline summed it up perfectly, "Hippies and Housewives Unite to Protest What Man is Doing to Earth."[1] While a little condescending, it was closer to the truth than anything the NYT would publish on the topic today.
In the end, both Marxist and Environmentalists can't tell the truth, because that wouldn't advance their cause. "Things have been getting better despite our warnings, so lets change everything!", isn't a good sell. So when you know the truth is unpopular, and you still want your agenda, your only option is to give up your dreams, or lie. Most choose the latter.
For example, while Earth Day sells itself as some rainbow coalition, the truth is they're not very open minded (as seen how they treat people who disagree), and more exemplified by the history of the anti-humanity and anti-immigrant views of many of the founders and proponents. Or despite it being sold as a day of celebration for the Earth and Peace, Earth Day has never been a celebration of the beauty and bounty of this awesome blue marble. Instead it’s always been an assault on humanity.
- Man is the great polluter that must be stopped because of failed predictions like Peak Oil, the Population Bombs, and so on
- When that fails to agitate the gullible, or time proves them wrong, they shift to something else: "Tree Killers" was popular in the 1980's, let's spike trees and kill/maim loggers for the greater good.
- Then in the 1990's it was man is bad for all the animals they're killing, like the Great Horned Owl, Polar Bears or Whales.
- When those aren't dying out as they predicted, then it's on to our cars or lack of green energy is the cause for badness.
And so on, and so on. But if you mention the failures of their past predictions, they'll attack you like Stalin on a capitalist street vendor trying to feed his family. While the problem of the day (year) keeps shifting, the cause (humans) never does. And their solution is always the same: give them (government) the power, to take away your liberty, and they'll protect the trees and environment from you. Just like the USSR did in Chernobyl, or China does as the greatest strip-miners in history.
👁️ See also
Tragedy of the commons -
Malthusian Catastrophes and Tragedy of the commons is used to justify leftist actions, despite always being wrong. The Population Bomb -
Marxist-sponsored hippie environmentalists re-invented the Malthusian catastrophe, and the only solution was Marxism. Peak Oil Theory -
M King Hubbert predicted oil production to peak globally around 1986, it's now expected after 2050. Be skeptical of Chicken Little. Earth Day -
Earth Day was a fake Holiday invented to support the far left, Marxist, anti-Humanity (Population Bomb Phobia) movement. Quotes/Climate -
Contradictions, failed prediction, obfuscation, the pseudo-science that is used to control the gullible.
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Paul R. Ehrlich
Winner of many accolades for being wrong, authoring the discredited Population Bomb, popularizing the Global Cooling scare.
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