Earth Day Is A Holiday For Liars April 21, 2008 By Alan Caruba
Earth Day is a holiday for liars. I have followed the
apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the
environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying
factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the
Green agenda. Since 1970, April 22 has been celebrated as Earth
Day. It is generally regarded as the date of the birth of the
modern environmental movement. There are several common
attributes of environmentalism. High on the list is its barely
hidden contempt for the human race, the view that the world's
population has to be drastically reduced and that our
consumption of everything from energy resources to agricultural
and livestock production threatens the planet. The food riots
occurring around the world are the direct result of
environmental mandates for biofuels, based on claims of global
warming, but the Earth is cooling, not warming. Earth Day had
its antecedents in the United Nations that has long maintained