Earth Day Approacheth!

Earth Day Approacheth!

Earth Day, the day on which liberals, greenies, environmentalists, tree huggers, species lovers, and conservationists worldwide celebrate the glories of Mother Earth and Mother Nature and sneer at those of us who consider many of them fruitcakes, will be observed this Friday, April 22nd.

I hope it rains.

It’s not that I don’t recycle, conserve, do what I can, within reason, to preserve the environment. However, as with most things liberals do, Earth-Day-ists go overboard.

They protect the snail darter, an inconsequential 9 cm fish, by attempting to prevent the construction of a dam that would benefit tens of thousands, of people, not fish. They embed chunks of steel in trees which results in lumberjacks losing an eye or an arm. They advocate against killing baby seals and whales with no thought as to the thousands who earn their livelihood with seal fur and whale blubber. They cripple industry in the Gulf of Mexico by pushing for an end to deep-sea drilling. They cherish wetlands over habitable dry land. They prevent oil drilling and the construction of oil refineries to keep America dependent on foreign oil. They protest against global warming ignoring substantive evidence that it’s all a sham.

The list goes on and on of Earth-Day types demonstrating an empathic concern for nature and all things natural with little regard for people. The truth is that fish are still very plentiful, trees are a renewable resource, people can’t live in wetlands, we need oil to survive and thrive, and, though I think baby seals are cute, they’re animals and mommy and daddy seals will make more.

There is cause for conservation, but within reasonable limits and after acknowledgement that any and all conservation efforts should serve the planet’s foremost residents, not bugs, or worms, or fish, or trees, or seals, but Homo sapiens.

The good news is that Earth Day, after its heyday, is going the way of Arbor Day, Groundhog Day, and United Nations Day, occasions recognized mainly by the Nature Conservancy, the town of Punxatawny, and U.N. leeches. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4177)