Doom and Gloom

Tuesday 23 April 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

Earth Day: full of shit for 43 years.

The 1970s were a lousy decade. Embarrassing movies, dreadful music and downright terrifying clothes reflected the national mood following an unpopular war, endless political scandals and a faltering economy.

Popular culture was consumed with decline, especially Hollywood. The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Damnation Alley and countless other dystopian films showed a planet wrecked by war, pollution and neglect. In large part, the entertainment industry was reflecting the culture at large.

In 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated — okay, “celebrated” doesn’t capture the funereal tone of the event. The events (organized in part by then hippie and now convicted murderer Ira Einhorn) predicted death, destruction and disease unless we did exactly as progressives commanded.

Behold the coming apocalypse as predicted on and around Earth Day, 1970[.]

Earth day is one of those days with good intentions; I ‘m a conservationist and have actually worked hard on environmental clean-up and wildlife preservation projects (likely much harder than your average Facebook poster who posts links to shit on global warming and the demise of humanity unless we all take part in a massive transfer of wealth from your average person to some crony who started a “green company” that lives off the government teat), but all Earth Day really does is serve as a platform for doom and gloom scientists activists to tell us that we’d all be much better off if we just figured out a way to kill half of the Earth’s population and cease all economic activity and use of energy. They’ve been monumentally wrong since Malthus, and continue to be wrong with every single one of their “predictions,” yet somehow because they have a PhD people still put stock in whatever these crackpots have to say.

2013-04-23  »  madlibertarianguy