Saturday's Energy Absurdity: Today is Earth Day, the Most Tiresome Day of Every Year
Earth Day was established on April 22, 1970, and every April 22 since has inevitably been the most tiresome day of every year, as various enviro-alarmists and their media support groups use it to communicate their scolding messages about turning off lights, driving and farting less, and the importance of eating bugs, among many others.
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The first example that caught my discerning eye Saturday morning was this bit of sophistry from the reliable enviro-scolds at Vox:
Here is the only appropriate response to Vox’s activist staff:
No, seriously, I don’t care about the profanity: Sane people simply must stop treating this kind of nonsense with grace and politeness if we ever want any of it to end. Unless, that is, you want your grandchildren to live in a world where they only learn about delicious ribeye steaks in history books.
Here’s another little tidbit about Earth Day:
That’s right: Its founder was a murderous freak.
Here’s an excerpt from that piece for those who haven’t heard this story before:
Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the "composted" body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.
A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and '70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia’s head hippie. With his long beard and gap-toothed smile, Einhorn — who nicknamed himself "Unicorn" because his German-Jewish last name translates to "one horn" —advocated flower power, peace and free love to his fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. He also claimed to have helped found Earth Day.
But the charismatic spokesman who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and preached against the Vietnam War — and any violence — had a secret dark side. When his girlfriend of five years, Helen "Holly" Maddux, moved to New York and broke up with him, Einhorn threatened that he would throw her left-behind personal belongings onto the street if she didn't come back to pick them up.
And so on Sept. 9, 1977, Maddux went back to the apartment that she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia to collect her things, and was never seen again. When Philadelphia police questioned Einhorn about her mysterious disappearance several weeks later, he claimed that she had gone out to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts and never returned.
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Don’t you just love that last part about her going out to buy tofu and sprouts? Isn’t that just absolutely perfect?
You bet it is.
More tiresomeness from something called @RecycleFarm:
Tiresome, defined.
Hey, at least this tiresome dude is doing some actual science, sort of:
You have to love this one from Indian PM Narendra Modi:
Just as a reminder, India now ranks as he 2nd most-polluting country on earth and has made no emissions reductions commitment until the year 2070, which is 10 years later than the most polluting country on earth, China.
Oh. Maybe save your virtue signaling for another day, Mr. Modi. Read the damn room.
Finally, as if this hasn’t already all been tiresome enough, here’s a little scolding from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres:
Hey, at least he didn’t repeat his line about the Earth being on “a highway to hell,” so we got that going for us.
That is all.