By Alan Caruba
Monday,
April 22, is Earth Day. Begun in 1970, it led to the creation of the
Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Clean Air, Clean Water,
and Endangered Species Acts. It is the global platform for the Big Lie
that carbon dioxide (CO2) is causing the Earth to warm and the basis of
the environmental movement’s ceaseless efforts to reduce the use of
energy for any reason.
Carbon
dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has been increasing, but the Earth
has been cooling due to reduced solar radiation. CO2 has virtually no
relationship to the climate except to show up well after a significant
change has occurred.
On
April 18, the Wall Street Journal reported that the International Energy
Agency had announced that, despite spending “more than $2 trillion in
investment into renewable-energy projects…the world had made almost no
progress over the past 20 years in reducing the carbon content of its
energy supplies.” It has never needed reduction. How many hospitals,
schools, bridges, and other useful things that could have been built
instead?
According to Wikipedia: “Carbon
is the 15th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, and the fourth
most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium,
and oxygen. It is present in all known life forms, and in the human body
carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after
oxygen.]
This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds
and their unusual polymer-forming ability at the temperatures commonly
encountered on Earth, make this element the chemical basis of all known life.” (Emphasis added)
Not
one single piece of vegetation can exist without CO2. Without
vegetation all animals and all humans would die. The Earth would look
like Mars. One of the pillars of environmentalism is that humans are the
greatest threat to the existence of the 4.5 billion-year-old Earth. The
essence of Earth Day is that you are the enemy, primarily for your use
of energy (coal, oil, and natural gas).
A
global propaganda campaign will glorify Earth Day and its message is
that you must change your life to accommodate the lies that sustain the
environmental movement and permit government agencies such as the
Environmental Protection Agency to strangle the economic life of the
nation.
On Earth day there will be thousands of events to promote its anti-energy, anti-technology, and anti-humanity message.
There
are thousands, of environmental organizations. Here, for example, are
some Earth Day recommendations from the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
#
Wash clothing in cold water. According to the NRDC, “this saves a great
deal of money as the bulk of the energy tied to clothes washing is used
to heat water.”
#
Cut clothes dryer energy by 20 to 40 percent. “It is more efficient to
spin water out of clothing than bake it out in the dryer.”
# Select the ‘normal’ or ‘standard’ picture setting on your TV.
An environmental group called the Food Tank recommends the following:
#
“Get in touch with agriculture. “This time of year, many people are
starting to plan vacations.” Forget Disney Land; instead choose a
“farm-stay” in which participants spend a few days or weeks living with a
host family…helping around the farm in exchange for free food and
lodging.”
#
“Buy food with less packaging.” This ignores the fact that modern
packaging ensures the safety of the foods you purchase. Even ancient
civilizations either burned refuse or created landfills.
# Do-it-Yourself projects such as “turning old t-shirts into produce bags to save plastic, starting seeds in eggshells…”
Behind
the many Earth Day suggestions is the environmentalists’ insistence on a
general return to an era when household tasks were undertaken without
machines that used electricity, before the ubiquitous benefits of
plastic, and less cars were on the roads. In the 1940s my late mother
had to wash clothes by hand and hang them in the back yard or basement
to dry. Food was kept cool in an ice box before the invention of
refrigerators. This is Earth Day’s idea of saving the Earth.
Everyone wants clean air and clean water. We have it.
The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts of the 1970s have achieved their
goals. Substituting “clean energy” such as solar and wind power has
proven to be expensive and impractical as neither of these produce
sufficient energy (about 3% at present) to power America. Taxpayers have
lost billions in the government loans made to solar and wind power
companies while traditional sources of power contribute billions to the
economy.
The Earth is not endangered, nor should it be worshipped as a pagan religion.
Behind
environmentalism is panoply of schemes intended to enrich those who
advocate “global warming” and/or “climate change.” Governments around
the world are abandoning “clean energy” programs and returning to
traditional and abundant forms of energy.
The
“science” behind climate change and the claim of a “consensus” among
the world’s scientists is a lie. Computer models have been rigged to
produce “warming” data while the planet has been in a natural cooling cycle for the last seventeen years!
On
Earth Day, you will be assailed by these and countless other claims,
but you will do yourself and the Earth a big favor if you ignore them.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
10 comments:
Amen!
OldAFSarge beat me to it!
gfa
Global warming is REAL! Pay no attention to the six inches of snow we going to get tomorrow in Wisconsin.
Sarge & gfa, you two make up the "Amen Corner"! Thanks. :)
Kerry, nice to hear from you - and I hear you. We still have 18" to 24" of snow on the ground in most places, here - and April has been unusually cold.
Is it Earth Day? You see how much I pay attention.
The thought that was running through my mind while crawling around in the dirt yesterday was that the same folks who carefully buy and eat only organic food also consume synthetic hormones that are produced by big drug companies and are tied to blood clots and cancer in order to prevent the perfectly natural state called pregnancy.
PH, that's true: most folks simply have no idea what it is they're doing, for good or bad.
Expecting up to 8" of global warming in the next ten hours.
WSF, somehow I'm not surprised. Darned hippies, anyway! mumblegrumble
Thanks Rev. BTW I hope you don't mind if I put a link to your site on my Blog, because I already did. A sci fi fan and aviation nut should feel right at home.
Thank, Kerry. I'm happy to return the favor. Several pilots are linked here already; the more, the merrier!
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