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It’s Time to Abandon Earth Day
townhall.com ^ | 4/22/2018 | Edward Hudgins

Posted on 04/22/2018 8:40:10 AM PDT by rktman

We all want to live in a world conducive to human health and safety. The good news is things have been improving for years.

Starting with the big picture, some five decades ago, 45 percent of the world’s population was living in extreme poverty. Today, that number is less than 10 percent. Back then, global life expectancy was 60 years old. It is now around 72, in developed countries, it’s more than 80. Even in Africa, the most impoverished region of the world, average lifespan has climbed from 47 to 60. The annual death rate of children under five years old has dropped from about 15 percent to under 5 percent, with much of that progress coming in developing countries.

And what about the environment? At the time of the first Earth Day, more than one million individuals worldwide, mainly children, died each year because of pathogens in polluted water. Fortunately, over the past four decades, the portion of the global population with access to improved water sources has jumped from only about 50 percent to more than 90 percent.

In the 1970s, 24 oil spills occurred in oceans on average per year. Since 2000, the average has dipped to three per year, and the quantity of oil spilled has declined by 99 percent.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: earthday; ecowankers; globalwarminghoax; hollymaddux; iraeinhorn; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; ponzischeme; presstitutes
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To: lee martell

One day was founded by a freak who tortured two women with electrical wire and soldering guns, the other founded by a freak who murdered his girlfriend and composted her body.

I’m sensing a theme


21 posted on 04/22/2018 9:38:52 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: Brilliant

Doppleganger(sp) planet. It’s in the parallel universe. ;-)


22 posted on 04/22/2018 9:41:02 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: US_MilitaryRules
Today is erff day! Now go out and do your part! Burn some fuel!

Does having a bonfire of old tires count?

23 posted on 04/22/2018 9:48:53 AM PDT by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: rktman
It’s Time to Abandon Earth Day. There. Fixed it.
24 posted on 04/22/2018 10:21:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: cyclotic

What??
I knew about the Kwanza originator’s record of assault and incarceration, but I didn’t know about the Earth Day originator committing murder and producing compost with the cadaver. Holy-Moly!!


25 posted on 04/22/2018 10:23:06 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: rktman

I’m way, way ahead on this trend.


26 posted on 04/22/2018 10:27:49 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: rktman

I abandoned Earth Day on the day that it started.

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27 posted on 04/22/2018 10:29:30 AM PDT by Mears
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To: rktman
Nooooo -
Earth Day is when we gather together as a family in the back yard....and burn our old tires. Because it's just wrong to take up all that space in the landfills....
28 posted on 04/22/2018 10:39:41 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: patro

That was a good special.


29 posted on 04/22/2018 11:27:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: rktman
Things are a bit better here and in Canada.

As for the rest of the Earth - I guess they didn't get the memo

I could post another 1000 of images just like this, current as of today, from such garden spots as India, Pakistan and so on. Earth Day truly is a giant anti-Capitalist movement in N/A. The dream of a clean planet is not.

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30 posted on 04/22/2018 11:30:38 AM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: rktman; All
"It’s Time to Abandon Earth Day...."



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31 posted on 04/22/2018 11:31:13 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: rktman

But if we get rid of Erf Day when will I wear my “Justice for Holly Maddux” Pin?


32 posted on 04/22/2018 11:37:24 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: rktman

I never celebrated it to begin with. It’s about as useless and earth hour.


33 posted on 04/22/2018 11:45:52 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: cyclotic

Communists are violent murderers. Some things never change.. They just have better PR now.


34 posted on 04/22/2018 11:48:27 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: rktman

That planet is on the far side of the sun.


35 posted on 04/22/2018 12:55:09 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert
That's the one. 🚀🤔👹
36 posted on 04/22/2018 12:56:10 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ASOC

Yup. Posted the other day. Ten most yucky river in the world...... Eight in Asia, 2 in Africa. Who’d a guessed? I suppose we need to pick up the pace.


37 posted on 04/22/2018 12:59:17 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

The entire Green movement is like a watermelon: Green on the outside, Marxist red on the inside.


38 posted on 04/22/2018 2:49:41 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: rktman

earthday is a pressure relief valve that allows the envirowackos to pretend to be relevant while causing no real damage


39 posted on 04/22/2018 2:59:21 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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