Hey! It's Earth Day. Plant a tree. Hug it. Copulate with it. Cut it down. Burn it. Bah Humbug!
Posted by denny at April 22, 2008 01:46 PMScrew that. It's also National Jelly Bean Day!!!
Snack like a Republican Conservative. It'll help you forget about the moonbatteries running around screaming their love to Gaia....
Posted by: Wollf on April 22, 2008 01:54 PMTo honor Earth Day I took my lunch break (something I hardly ever get) and drove my 2007 Jeep Commander with the Hemi around the beautiful mountainous area that I live in. I burned at least 3 gallons for absolutely nothing, but God the scenery was beautiful. Can someone please buy me some carbon credits for my transgression? Thanks.
Posted by: Ray on April 22, 2008 02:40 PMThis is also the birthday of Vladimir Lenin.
Watermelon Day! Green on the outside and red on the inside. I will oberve it by ostentatiously ignoring it.
I went out back and urinated in the creek.
I hope that helps.
Hiding in every old growth tree is a whole room full of fine furniture, a piano, a violin or at the very least a camp fire! I'm no tree hugger, but maybe there's reason to be!
Posted by: Mark on April 22, 2008 03:31 PMI got to work and found an interesting news
item on "Page 6" I opened the Google window
to do some further research and there were
trees painted on the Google letters.
I pointed at the trees and a window popped up
saying Earth Day. I checked our Employee Manual.
It's not a paid holiday here.
I went back to my image search for Marisa Miller.
I'm glad she didn't have trees painted on her.
Pete
Posted by: Pete on April 22, 2008 03:49 PMI celebrated Earth day yesterday. I dropped a 60 foot tall maple to make room for my new deck this summer. It was so cool hearing the CRACK!!! and seeing the thing smash into other trees as it crumpled onto the ground in a pile of fire-wood to be. I'll spend this afternoon with my chainsaw cleaning up the mess.
Happy Earth Day!
Come on, guys. This is super serial.
Posted by: Woody on April 22, 2008 04:10 PMI like trees, unless they're cottonwoods. Cottonwoods are just really big weeds as far as I can tell. Sometimes I see a really pretty tree that I think is quite aesthetic. There's an old oak tree growing out near the dump that I just love to watch change with the seasons ... a large symmetrical lovely tree that I hope stands for a long time.
However, worshipping them and the owls that park in them is just silly.
Posted by: Peggy U on April 22, 2008 04:15 PMYesterday was earth day? I drove my SUV 300 miles. Does that count?
Posted by: Alan on April 22, 2008 04:45 PMI got in my V-10 Excursion & blasted up the Interstate about 80 or so...Toad of Toad Hall in his Motorcar 'n' all...(grin)
Posted by: Sandy G on April 22, 2008 06:28 PMA collection of my favorite quotes from the first Earth Day (and thereabouts):
"Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make."
Paul Ehrlich, biologist, Stanford University
Mademoiselle Magazine, April 1970
"Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born."
Paul Ehrlich, "Eco-Catastrophe!"
Ramparts Magazine, Earth Day Special issue
"By...[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s."
Paul Ehrlich, "Eco-Catastrophe!"
Ramparts Magazine, Earth Day Special issue
"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation."
Denis Hayes, chief organizer, Earth Day
The Living Wilderness Magazine, Spring 1970 issue
"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, North Texas State University
The Living Wilderness Magazine, Spring 1970 issue
"There is growing doubt that the agricultural ecosystem will be able to accommodate both the anticipated increase of the human population to seven billion by the end of the century and the universal desire of the world's hungry for a better diet."
Lester Brown, founder, Worldwatch Institute
Scientific American, 1970
"To some overcrowded populations, the [hydrogen] bomb may one day no longer seem a threat, but a release."
Rene Dubos, biologist, Rockefeller University
Look Magazine, 21 April 1970 issue
"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..."
Life Magazine, January 1970
"[A]ir pollution... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone."
Paul Ehrlich, biologist, Stanford University
April 1970 Mademoiselle Magazine (April 1970)
[DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons] "may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945."
Paul Ehrlich, biologist, Stanford University
Audubon Magazine, May 1970 issue
"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."
Kenneth Watt
Time Magazine, 2 February 1970 issue
"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."
Kenneth Watt
Swarthmore College, 19 April 1970
"I'm scared... I'm 37 and I'd kind of like to live to be 67 in a reasonably pleasant world, and not die in some kind of holocaust in the next decade."
Paul Ehrlich
Look Magazine, 1970 Earth Day issue
Earth Day? Are we still around? Sacredieu! Let us drink and be merry...
Posted by: Claudia in Toronto on April 22, 2008 07:47 PMDenny, sir, you captured the essence of how I feel today. roflmao
I wanted to eat beans all day and screw up David Suzuki's mood.
Posted by: red collar on April 22, 2008 08:30 PMRed Collar: Pass the Van Camps ... that's something I'm good at.
Posted by: Peggy U on April 22, 2008 08:44 PMI rode a horse to a mountain top in eastern Tennessee that overlooks the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. The air was cool, clean, and fresh.
Posted by: vicki on April 22, 2008 09:44 PMwatching FOX while on the eliptical. flashed up some stuff about how in 1985 35% or people were convinced of global warming. today 34%....no typo. also about how one of the "sizzle" pics of gore's movie was some cracked ice in the arctic. lifted straight from "day after tommorow" the movie. they called gore after the movie maker confirmed it. he had no comment. I wonder how many carbon credits that fat fvck sold today....
Posted by: patrick on April 22, 2008 11:04 PMVicki's horse could use some beans too.
Posted by: Peggy U on April 22, 2008 11:10 PMScrew "Earth Day"! Sheesh! Talk about having religion and morals rammed down our throats! Friggin' idiots!
Posted by: Lee on April 23, 2008 12:02 AMShit, like I care about it. It might as well be called Smurf Day. Whadda say we all go Blue instead of Green in protest? tee-hee
Posted by: LisaKay on April 23, 2008 06:06 AMI have 1 trillion carbon credits, so I can do whatever I want to dear old Mother Earth and I'm covered. Maybe I'll leave all my lights on, or drive around the block for an hour or so. Hell, if it's good enough for that douchbag algore, his Chicken Little pissants and hollywood's asswipe elitists, it should be good enough for me.
Posted by: thatjerryguy on April 23, 2008 09:26 AMSuch hostile and obnoxious comments.
One post surpised me, since he and I have discussed the destruction of the mountains by developers.
Posted by: vicki on April 23, 2008 10:03 AM
Patrick, the scene to which you refer was actually an ice shelf made of styrofoam. In Gore's book, it needn't be real to be effective. I've said all along, he's counting on the fact that people are either stupid, or too lazy to look up the truth.
Posted by: Steve on April 23, 2008 10:27 AM