I kept hearing snippets about it being Earth Day today. Whoopee.
No day off...no candy...no presents...
Whoever is in charge of Earth Day PR definitely needs to get on the inflatable globe beach ball about this one.
If you want me to get all warm and fuzzy about the environment (with its hostile ecosystem which is constantly trying to kill me with its pollen, poisonous spiders, and various bacteria and viruses), then you better start giving me some short-term incentives.
I'm certainly down with the whole stewardship thing. It's biblical, and even Gandalf says he'll keep making his stand against Mordor so long as there is a single flower to protect...
Sorry...I fell back into the Middle-Earth Day pipe dream for a second there...
...but I do think people sometimes get carried away with environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to produce people who view the earth as a mother, or (worse yet) an organism on which we are a parasitic infestation. There is very little on Earth Day that seems like scientific, rational environmental science. Personally, I prefer to think of the Earth as a very useful machine, or (on my more cynical days) a giant volcano that environmentalists revere as a god and like to sacrifice virgins into on the off chance that it will choose not to blow up on its own volition any time soon...like the firey, molten furnace that is Mt. Doom...
Sorry, there I go again...
Interesting fact: Earth day is April 21. Lenin was born on April 21. Add that bit to the pile of evidence that the environmental movement is the confluence of all of the fringe left-wing movements which died out in the late 70's to early 80's. I try to celebrate Lenin's birthday every year by running three lawn mowers and spraying CFC aerosols with both hands.
Posted by: Matt | April 26, 2008 at 04:51 AM
Oh, I meant to drive my car pointlessly around the block a few times to make a point, but with gas prices what they are, I had to settle with just eating extra cow meat.
Posted by: Peter Terp | April 27, 2008 at 06:30 PM