Earth Day...time to drive around the block a few times

Is Earth Day really something worth celebrating?

It's not like the Earth is inherent bad or evil...after all, God said it was good when He made it. I can't help but think, though, that our terrestrial origins and habitation are something of an embarrassment. They peg us as subordinate beings, rooted in our physicality until our physical bodies can be more perfectly bound to our spiritual natures.

Shouldn't we rather be more interested in a Heaven Day?

Didn't we have one of those? Wasn't that the Sabbath?

Anyway, I don't think we should be stupid about our resources or management of the planet...but I do fear that events like Earth Day lend too much credence to authoritarian micromanagement in the name of the planet as well as neo-paganism.