Earth...like it or leave it!

Ramblings about Earth Day, as I have nothing else to do:

- I believe that my dad's reaction was of the "Huh, no shit" variety.

- How long before this day is celebrated in the name of 'America's Earth'?

- This just makes me laugh. And you know it happened.

- Do republicans not observe Earth Day, just like Jews don't celebrate Christmas?

- By throwing two cigarette butts away today (instead of flicking them out the car window), I did as much to help the environment as someone growing an entire garden full of organic vegetables, which reduces the use of toxic chemical-based pesticides and herbicides present in corporate farming techniques by as much as 0.0000000000000000000001 percent. Both of us are doing a bang up job, lets move on.

- Isn't Earth Day rather insensitive to other planets like Jupiter and Mercury? When is the ACLU getting involved?

- Do Christians not observe Earth Day, just like Jews don't celebrate Christmas?

- Peter Frampton, Jack Nicholson, & Vladimir Lenin all share birthdays on April 22nd. How did the activist powers that be not know that this date was taken? LENIN for crying out loud!!!

- Fuck Lenin! This is much more sexy and significant.

- Using a hybrid vehicle is like putting a smiley faced bandage on genital herpes.

- Any type of environmental activism would work exponentially better if Hollywood would shut the hell up about it.

- The smartest thing I've read about this topic by far: The biggest problem with Earth Day is that it has become a ritual of sympathy for the idea of environmental sanity. Small steps, we’re told, ignoring the fact that most of the steps most frequently promoted (returning your bottles, bringing your own bag, turning off the water while you brush your teeth) are of such minor impact (compared to our ecological footprints) that they are essentially meaningless without larger, systemic action as well. The strategy of recycling as a gateway drug — get them hooked on it and we can move them on to harder stuff — has failed miserably. We can do better. What may be worse is the recent plethora of “green issues,” “green guides” and special Earth Day sections that have blanketed our media. A decade ago, we would have been excited to see green ideas (even lame ones) given such prominent play, but these days, such editorial eco-ghettos strike us more as an admission of skewed priorities, with ecological sanity presented as a product feature, like a well-designed cup holder, rather than as a fundamental strategy for avoiding widespread collapse. - Alex Steffen of WorldChanging

- Remember when hippies were all about smoking pot and hacky sack? Neither do I.

- "Together, we can make an unbelievably negligible difference" - make the bumper stickers now. Until something truly progressive & important comes along.....I'll be the cynic. Plus, what is more fun than an event/subject that conservatives and old people deny the actuating problem and don't understand...& liberals and young people use to push other agendas, seem superior, and get laid. Good times!