Happy (belated) 38th Earth Day
Tuesday, April 22, was the official date of this year’s Earth Day celebration.
This observance was conceived in the late 1960s by Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator from Wisconsin, as an enlightened response to carefree pollution all over America. And the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970.
But the environmental practices it inaugurated have become so much a part of our ordinary lives that I felt commenting on Danica Patrick’s historic car race was a greater priority on Tuesday - notwithstanding Al Gore’s prophecies about Earth in the Balance.
To be fair, however, this celebration of and deference to Earth’s natural wonders should be distinguished from Gore’s convenient truths about climate change (e.g. like his using fake images of melting glaciers in his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” just to scare people).
After all, Earth Day consciousness ushered in conservation and greening trends that have led to cleaner air, more potable (lead-free) water and a much less polluted environment. Whereas, by Gore’s own admission, there has been “no improvement in the fight against climate change” since he began prophesizing his Cassandra warnings about global-warming.
Of course, if there’s any truth to Gore’s doomsday scenario (especially with China and India joining the United States as superpower polluters), I suppose there would be no point in wishing us earthlings another 38 years….
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This observance was conceived in the late 1960s by Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator from Wisconsin, as an enlightened response to carefree pollution all over America. And the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970.
But the environmental practices it inaugurated have become so much a part of our ordinary lives that I felt commenting on Danica Patrick’s historic car race was a greater priority on Tuesday - notwithstanding Al Gore’s prophecies about Earth in the Balance.
To be fair, however, this celebration of and deference to Earth’s natural wonders should be distinguished from Gore’s convenient truths about climate change (e.g. like his using fake images of melting glaciers in his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” just to scare people).
After all, Earth Day consciousness ushered in conservation and greening trends that have led to cleaner air, more potable (lead-free) water and a much less polluted environment. Whereas, by Gore’s own admission, there has been “no improvement in the fight against climate change” since he began prophesizing his Cassandra warnings about global-warming.
Of course, if there’s any truth to Gore’s doomsday scenario (especially with China and India joining the United States as superpower polluters), I suppose there would be no point in wishing us earthlings another 38 years….
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posted by ALH ipinions at 4/24/2008 06:23:00 AM
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2 Comments:
..."Cassandra warnings about global-warming".
Thought I have varying opinions on the true state of Global Warming and continue to try and get a "unbiased" story on the truth of it, I would say to you to remember one thing.
Cassandra was cursed by the gods to never be believed, and yet...in the end everything she said proved true. ;)
Cosi girl
Touché; but what price to be "proved true" Cosi girl.
Indeed, the moral you derive from this fable suggests that the gods cursed the people, not Cassandra. And there's something intriguingly sadomasochistic about that....
If you read enough of my articles on this subject, you'll find that - in theory and in practice - I'm more of an environmentalist that Gore even cares to be.
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