Posted on 04/20/2008 12:19:46 PM PDT by cartoonistx
I can only hope that this “Green” fad soon goes the way of disco.
Well, you can see where this is going.
I wouldn't be surprised to see folks digging their own coal if they had to. Dirty heat is better than freezing.
Right now, Casa de Zoidberg is heated with natural gas, but I have no problems with hauling the old wood burner back out of storage and firing it up. It heated the house for nearly 20 years.
It would take a while to get back into shape to spend all day swinging an axe but as you say, it beats freezing.
Come to think of it, I may just start putting some wood down to season on the off chance it’s needed sometime soon...
Vladimir Lenin
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
In office: November 8, 1917 – January 21, 1924
Born April 22, 1870
Died January 21, 1924
Political party Bolshevik Party
Profession Politician, revolutionary
". . . on April 22, 1970, Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy. . . "
-American Heritage Magazine, October 1993
Founded on Lenin's 100th birthday? --yeah, it's just a "coincidence".
How the First Earth Day Came About
By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day
At a conference in Seattle in September 1969, I announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment and invited everyone to participate. The wire services carried the story from coast to coast. The response was electric. It took off like gangbusters. Telegrams, letters, and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country. The American people finally had a forum to express its concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air - and they did so with spectacular exuberance. For the next four months, two members of my Senate staff, Linda Billings and John Heritage, managed Earth Day affairs out of my Senate office.
Five months before Earth Day, on Sunday, November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy article by Gladwin Hill reporting on the astonishing proliferation of environmental events:
"Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national day of observance of environmental problems...is being planned for next spring...when a nationwide environmental 'teach-in'...coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...."
It was obvious that we were headed for a spectacular success on Earth Day. It was also obvious that grassroots activities had ballooned beyond the capacity of my U.S. Senate office staff to keep up with the telephone calls, paper work, inquiries, etc. In mid-January, three months before Earth Day, John Gardner, Founder of Common Cause, provided temporary space for a Washington, D.C. headquarters. I staffed the office with college students and selected Denis Hayes as coordinator of activities.
Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. We had neither the time nor resources to organize 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated. That was the remarkable thing about Earth Day. It organized itself.
I think you have hit the nail on the head. When people had to work to stay alive, they didn’t bother with this nonsense.
Personally, I’m looking at green cement for my yard. No mowing, no emissions. Isn’t that clever?
I don’t think ALL green stuff is bad. When I actually remember, I like using the cloth bags for groceries. They hold more and don’t rip. I think recycling is a good idea. If there were a way to do it cost efficiently, I would like an alternate fuel source. Like anything else, it’s a matter of moderation. Taking anything to the extreme is ridiculous. If I don’t go tomorrow, my family will probably be spending Earth Day at the zoo. They have Earth Day stuff going on today, but I can’t stand crowds. BTW, we’re probably going to the zoo once a week anyhow, so it has nothing to do with Earth Day.
Works for me, would make cleaning up the dog poo easier too, just wash it off with a garden hose.
I think you’re onto something.
Of course not. We can't let these 'watermelon environmentalists' (green on the outside, red on the inside) push us into disrespecting nature and acting irresponsibly. That'll be awfully foolish. On the other paw, there is a limit. ie, "man-made climate change", etc.
“Taking anything to the extreme is ridiculous.”
Please keep in mind that extremism is often necessary. For example, if you want to excel in athletics or in academic study, do you not push yourself to an extreme? Isn’t it appropriate for the entrepreneur to try extremely hard to achieve success in the marketplace?
The above quote is in fact of an extremist nature, because it uses the word “anything.” In recent times the push for moderation (like the “green” craze) has been excessive and extreme.
Unfortunately as long as the Government is paying someone will be playing, even if it's a new beat. Remember acid rain? Global cooling? Ozone holes?
This Scare-Aware stuff has been on since Nixon,of all people, started the EPA, and the EPA started handing out grants.
My post came about more because I have seen a mindset among some folks that if anything resembles an environmental cause, they will make fun of it. I have seen some posts that indicate some people would rather personally club a baby seal to death, rather than be seen as at all green.
Many FReepers forget that front part of CONSERVative. The Lefties and their extremism has pushed many on the right away from their own roots, into the territory of knee-jerk wastefulness.
Each chance I get I explain the Goreacle will eventually come to the conclusion that mass suicide is the ONLY solution because liberals emit CO2. Liberals are toxic!
This is the yarn he told me
As we sat in Casey's Bar,
That Rooshun mug who scammed from the jug
In the Land of the Crimson Star;
That Soviet guy with the single eye,
And the face like a flaming scar.
And there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign,
And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine;
And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay;
And there he sleeps and calm he keeps his watch and ward for aye.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.
They tell you he's a mummy - don't you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he's a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.
This eye beheld the bloody bomb that bashed him on the bean.
I heard the crash, I saw the flash, yet . . . there he lies serene.
And by the roar that rocked the Tomb I ask: how could that be?
But if you doubt that deed of doom, just go yourself and see.
You think I'm mad, or drunk, or both . . . Well, I don't care a damn:
I tell you this: their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM.
Municipalities promote (or often require) recycling only because it saves them money by not using landfill areas.
The only green involved is money.
BTW, have you heard of the Georgia Guidestones? Check out the first line below “The Message of the Georgia Guidestones”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Algore wouldn't be the first to start thinking about mass suicide/murder to cut the population.
Yes, last year an old hippie woman that lives in Elbert county told me about it.
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