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EARTH DAY TO LIVE AGAIN
Still doubt that Greenism is a religion? Check this apocalyptic envirosermon from Gaia monk Mike Weilbacher, who foretells that Earth Day will soon rise from the dead:
As climates collapse, water scarcity widens, more species vanish, and sea levels rise to where whole regions fret about drowning - Bangladesh, the Nile delta, the Maldives, Miami, the Jersey Shore - a global chorus demanding change will one day soon rise in a green tsunami of outrage. And Earth Day will become a centerpiece of the change ahead.
Testify, brother Mike!
As in 1970, when Earth Day catalyzed the comeback of bald eagles, the future Earth Day will regain its relevance in a shattered world to become the first secular holiday celebrated worldwide.
I’ll take that bet. Meanwhile, noisy Hollywood wife Laurie David’s bid to sign up one million “virtual marchers” has fallen gruesomely short, despite massive media support:
To date, David has not produced even 320,000 “marchers”.
Hit the link for much more on this from Ankle Biting Pundits. As it is, David has secured online signatures from just 0.106% of Americans; proportionally equal to a mere 21,300 Australians. From this tiny base, David imagines a nation-changing idiot-power movement will emerge:
As our numbers grow, we will use our collective voices to demand that governments, corporations, and politicians take the steps necessary to stop global warming.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
We can stop global warming by shooting moonbats in orbit, thus blotting out the sun. Will Mrs. Hollywood Producer volunteer to be first?
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 04 26 at 10:19 AM • permalinkI about drove my earth-destroying SUV off the road Monday, laughing so hard at the DJs asking eachother how they had “celebrated” Earth Day. I didn’t know anyone over the age of 10 in one of our brain-washing public schools celebrated Earth Day.
But I did learn that Earth Day has been extended to Arbor Day, which is sometime this week or next. And that I can go to those capitalistic pigs at Home Depot on Friday and pick up a free spruce sapling. Which I think I will do. In my gas-guzzling SUV.
Is the exchange rate 1.79 Americans to equal 1 Australian?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 04 26 at 10:25 AM • permalinkThe Jersey Shore will disappear? To be replaced by the “Syringe Ghetto” from all the washed-up medical waste, I reckon.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 26 at 10:39 AM • permalinkWhat the hell does “water scarcity widens” mean?
All this talk of warming is making my snowman cry.
Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 04 26 at 10:49 AM • permalink“As in 1970, when Earth Day catalyzed the comeback of bald eagles, the future Earth Day will regain its relevance in a shattered world to become the first secular holiday celebrated worldwide.”
New Year’s Day? Valentine’s? Mother’s Day? Father’s Day? Labour/Worker/May Day?
First?
Of course, it can be argued that all those were originally religious - but the same can be said of Earth Day - observed on the same day as Lenin’s birthday (in fact, the first Earth Day was Lenin’s centennial).
As in 1970, when Earth Day catalyzed the comeback of bald eagles, the future Earth Day will regain its relevance in a shattered world to become the first secular holiday celebrated worldwide.
Won’t it be sooooo nice when the UN finally wakes up and sets aside Lenin’s Birthday as the international holiday it deserves.
*spit*
BTW, the bald eagle began it’s comback when the government bounty on them was ended in the 1960’s. Muddleheaded idiot. Spark up another bowl, Mikey!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 04 26 at 11:20 AM • permalinkEnvironmental question: if Phillipe is an otter, surely he can take care of himself if the cods try to bite at him?
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 04 26 at 11:26 AM • permalinkI wish I could say this religion was going to disappear in a few years, when the predicted drowning of major cities fails to occur. But it won’t. After all, Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted the end of the world with certainty at least three times in my lifetime, and they’re still around (as is the world).
Nothing shows the awesome power of your movement like “catalyzing the comeback of bald eagles”.
At any rate, I find it tremendously easy to ignore Earth Day, given that it’s also my grandpa’s birthday, so there’s always better things to do on April 22 than mope around and feel guilty about not living in 15th century conditions like the envirotards want us to.
Don’t need that Gulfstream. They can all gather around that 26 foot barbeque pit installed on the David’s 14 acre estate,sans permit, for the arrival of Robert Kennedy Jr. That would be the Robert Kennedy Jr of the NRDCFEE-Natural Resources Defense Council for Everyone Else.
They can all discuss how to keep those nasty looking windmills out of Nantucket Bay.
Robert Kennedy Jr.-not in my backyard.
Walter Cronkite-doesn’t want to sail around those nasty things.
Maybe they can get Harrison Ford( a big green contributor)to fly in on his PRIVATE HELICOPTER for a cameo.demand that governments, corporations, and politicians take the steps necessary to stop global warming.
They don’t need good luck: Labour in the UK is warm on the idea as is the currently socialist Conservative party. The Democrats in the US may well win the next presidental election and go green. Many European countries have socialist governments. So: good luck to the rest of us! We will need it.
While the Cuyahoga is cleaner, Lake Erie lives and eagle populations soar, today’s concerns are of an entirely different scale than 1970.
Indeed yes. Back in 1970 you wankers were trying to convince us that Gaia was bursting at the seams with our sorry selves and that mass starvation and deadly pandemic disease were just around the corner unless we changed our wantonly proliferate ways. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. Yawn.
And scientists starkly estimate we are losing 100 species every day to an unconscionable wave of extinction sweeping the world.
Estimates based on what exactly?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 26 at 02:46 PM • permalinkSome interesting quotes left by F451 in my comments section:
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to
support… the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers
will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985
air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching
earth by one half…”Life Magazine, January 1970
**“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years…
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees
colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven
degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it
would take to put us into an ice age.”Kenneth Watt
Earth Day speech at Swarthmore College, 19 April 1970
**“I’m scared… I’m 37 and I’d kind of like to live to be 67 in a reasonably pleasant world, and not die in some kind of holocaust in the next decade.”
Paul Ehrlich, biologist, Stanford University
Look Magazine, 1970 Earth Day issue[Fear not: As of March 2006, not only is Dr. Ehrlich (now 73) still alive, but still working. To date, none of his books have been recalled as defective products. Or moved to the ‘science fiction’ section.]
**“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim
timetable: By 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these
will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and
the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner,
South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.
...By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world,
with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and
Australia, will be in famine.”Peter Gunter, North Texas State University
The Living Wilderness Magazine, Spring 1970 issue.
**“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest
cataclysm in the history of man have already been born.”Paul Ehrlich, biologist, Stanford University
“Eco-Catastrophe!” (essay), Ramparts Magazine, Earth Day Special
issueAs climates collapse?????
Like, the sky’s falling, man.
I sure feels tight today.
Posted by Go Canucks on 2006 04 26 at 03:48 PM • permalink...sea levels rise to where whole regions fret about drowning - Bangladesh, the Nile delta, the Maldives, Miami, the Jersey Shore...
NO!!!!!! The Coalition Of The Swilling is at risk!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 26 at 04:36 PM • permalinkSigivald: yes! There’s always a silver lining to every cloud. And the two or three people in Miami that I still like own boats, so they’ll be okay.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 04 26 at 06:36 PM • permalinkWant to ‘learn’ more on this? Go along to this evening of brain freezing bullshit:
Janine Benyus is in Australia in May. She wrote the book “Biomimicry” about how by treating nature as “model, measure and mentor” we can use the insights developed by nature over 3.8 billion years to create highly efficient systems and processes to make what we need without pollution and waste.
The 9 basic laws are:
1 Nature runs on sunlight
2 Nature uses only the energy it needs
3 Nature fits form to function
4 Nature recycles everything
5 Nature rewards cooperation
6 Nature banks on diversity
7 Nature demands local expertise
8 Nature curbs excesses from within
9 Nature taps the power of limits.
She will deliver the Keynote at the joint dinner for the Australian Business Leaders Forum for sustainable Development and Queensland EPA Sustainable Industries Award in Melbourne on 15th May and will then set off on a 2 week tour of the country engaging with various companies, govt agencies, organisations and institutions in partnership with The Natural Edge Project. For enquiries visit http://www.naturaledgeproject.net/BenyusTour06.aspxPosted by pick-your-pun on 2006 04 26 at 07:18 PM • permalinkOh, here’s a 10th basic law (aren’t these things always done in 10’s?):
10 Nature kills.
Posted by pick-your-pun on 2006 04 26 at 07:30 PM • permalinkI marched in Brisbane this ANZAC day and had the usual skinfull afterwards. I’m still utterly shagged. Might take the virtual march option next year if Laurie wouldn’t mind coming down to organise it.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 04 26 at 08:54 PM • permalink#29
The same crowd believe Nature also spontaneously invented human beings.
So it can’t be THAT great…No 9 ‘Nature taps the power of limits’?
Shouldn’t that be
‘Nature limits the power of taps [faucets]’?Put ‘Government’ in place of Nature and you get a very good idea of the confusion in this gal, also her ideology..
I have a large book titled ‘When Life Nearly Died -The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time’ by Michael J. Benton. About geological times.
So add the logical 10th Commandment:
‘Nature stuffs up real good’Hmmm.
10. Nature is totally without mercy?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 04 26 at 10:10 PM • permalinkI well remember watching the horror nightly across the decades as the tide inexorably rose along the Jersey Shore. I am still by the terror I saw in the eyes of the helpless women and children as they frantically ran up and down the shoreline, the water lapping at their scurrying feet as they screamed for help, for someone to please come and tell them what to do. <sniff>
Oh, that they might have had the advantage that the people in Miami had! After years of immigration from Cuba, the citizens of Miami either had first hand experience, or had learned from those who had first hand experience how to, McGiver-like, improvise a boat out of just about anything at hand. Of course, the enlarged Bermuda Triangle cast its mysterious shroud over them and they all disappeared, but at least they didn’t drown! We don’t think they did, anyway. Who knows what goes on in Gaia’s special mystery places?”
A warning to those who ignore the environment.
I reckon this guy has a better chance…
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2006 04 27 at 12:37 AM • permalinkIn regards to No. 4, I hope somebody asks Benyus where coal comes from.
(No, don’t thank me. The idea was pinched from Rene Dubos’ ‘So Human an Animal.’)
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 04 27 at 12:56 AM • permalinkRule 10. Nature is a contrary, icy, firey, cold, hot bitch.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 04 27 at 01:14 AM • permalinkpick-your-pun,
Is the eminent Ms. Benyus endorsing “Survival of the Fittest”? Perhaps we should ruthlessly and mercilessly cull the weak from our herd…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 04 27 at 01:29 AM • permalink#35 10. Nature is totally without mercy?
La Belle Gaia Sans Merci
Oh what can ail thee earth at arms
Alone and palely loitering
The hedge has died from acid rain
And no birds singOh what can ail thee earth at arms
So haggard and so woe begone
The climate’s changing for the worse
And the species are gonePosted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 04 27 at 01:31 AM • permalinkSpiny
You’re right.Make that:
10 Nature is selective
11 Nature killsPosted by pick-your-pun on 2006 04 27 at 02:25 AM • permalink2 Nature uses only the energy it needs
That sounds like she simply defined the problem away. Given that “nature” in her context seems to be everything around, of course it uses only the energy it “needs”, because there’s nothing else that could possibly “need” any energy, and any excess energy simply gets turned into “more nature” eventually. Well, duh. That doesn’t mean it’s an efficient mechanism or adaptable to human needs.
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The same crowd believe Nature also spontaneously invented human beings.
Preposterous. Everybody knows that humans beings were supernaturally magicked up from raw clay, six to ten thousand years ago, and only coincidentally are 98% genetically identical to bonobo chimps.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 27 at 03:46 PM • permalinkBah! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a figment, perveyed by benighted charlatans who are unable to grasp the ineffable transcendence of the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Exclamation point!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 28 at 05:21 PM • permalink
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