Apr 22 2008
Happy Lenin’s Birthday, Oops, I Mean Earth Day
In the spirit of the festive occasion, here’s a Kathy Shaidle post from last year:
Did your children celebrate Lenin’s birthday in school last week?
Don’t answer “no” right away.
The first Earth Day “teach-in” was celebrated on April 22, 1970, to protest the Vietnam War, pollution, and littering - and to commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday of one of history’s most notorious villains.
As the father of communism, the deaths of tens of millions of people can be laid at that Soviet dictator’s doorstep. That now forgotten fact about Earth Day’s origins should place your child’s sudden enthusiasm for recycling, saving the panda bears and energy efficient light bulbs in a new, well, light.
Like the Marxist philosophy that inspired it, today’s environmental movement has become, for its most ardent proponents, an ersatz religion. As Joseph Brean recently observed, “in its myths of the Fall and the Apocalypse, its saints and heretics, its iconography and tithing, its reliance on prophecy, even its schisms - the green movement now exhibits the same psychology of compliance as religion.”
Hmmm. In Canada, the greenies are mad because (gasp!) corporations got the message.
In honor of Earth Day, I think I’ll fill the tank in my SUV. IMAO celebrates with interesting earth facts.
