Posted on 04/22/2021 6:41:34 AM PDT by Sparky1776
Earth Day, the annual day of environmental action and awareness, was first held on April 22, 1970. This past April 22nd, we finally ventured into the woods behind our house and pulled 4 putrid truck tires/mosquito farms out of the mud, along with about 200 pounds of scrap metal, engine parts, and farm equipment. The place used to be a dairy farm, and I guess "out of sight" was "out of mind". If it were still the 70's, cleaning up the woods would have been "outta sight" in a whole different way.
Here's a clip of The Crying Indian from the early 70's. OK, so Chief Iron Eyes Cody wasn't a real Native American after all. That didn't stop the ad campaign from having a tremendous effect back then. And it's no less relevant today.
Despite the fact that we've gone from a nation of 200M to 330M I think it's a lot cleaner now, not sure I agree with all the methods to get here but here we are.
That was Chief Iron Eyes Cody
From wikipedia:
Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999)
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In 1996, Cody’s half-sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage, and not Native American at all.
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Reparations for everyone , \o/
Bumper sticker” “Keep America Beautiful: Beat Up A Hippie”
“... not Native American at all....”. Is anybody REALLY ‘native’ American? LOL!
Being that it’s the great muvver erf/gayia celebration day. guess we once again need to torch some tires and warm the hemi up in the driveway for most of the day. Need all the help we can get to stave off the next glaciation event. How do these assclowns manage to keep perpetuating this lie? After all, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote Tarzan of the JUNGLE for a reason. He did NOT write Tarzan of the Tundra. Warm is a WHOLE lot easier to survive.
So he was a fake, just like Earth Day.
You obviously do not live in a place that has a lot of recent arrivals. We live in an outlying area that used to be pristine, but these days the roads are all lined with trash punctuated with really bad spots where people have dumped their garbage, old furniture, and other types of debris. Strangely enough when we witness garbage being thrown from the vehicle in front of us it is typically a newer car or truck and often but not always a South of the Border or darker skinned occupant. What a surprise, but I guess that it is racist to notice.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the “homeless” bums that we have who make the absolute worst messes. Their camps tend to be a multi-cultural group. So as I said... count yourself very lucky because leftist politics assures that what we are currently experiencing is on the way to where ever you live as well.
When the snow first melted here in NH about a month back I took my tractor and picked up roadside trash on a mile stretch north and south of my house. I filled up my 6’ wide bucket.
Most were beer cans from habitual drinking/drivers.
There is one guy in particular who must pick up a Miller Lite on his way home from work daily. I counted 154 Lite beer cans.
The other memorable item were 4 Tito’s vodka bottles. Not nips. 1/2 liter and 3/4 liter bottles. There were also a lot of 22 oz malt liquor cans.
Sad to say, the Native Americans were not all that ecologically savvy either. There was a lot of space so when it got too bad they just moved on or fought the neighboring tribe for their land and sustenance. Crying Indian Bull SSheite.
And now, as Paul Harvey would say, “The Rest of the Story”....
Heather Rogers, creator of the 2005 documentary film Gone Tomorrow. The Hidden Life of Garbage and book of the same name,[10] classifies Keep America Beautiful as one of the first greenwashing corporate fronts, alleging that the group was created in response to Vermont’s 1953 attempt to legislate a mandatory deposit to be paid at point of purchase on disposable beverage containers and banning the sale of beer in non-refillable bottles.[11][12]
Keep America Beautiful’s narrow focus on litter, and indeed construction of the modern concept of litter, is seen as an attempt to divert responsibility from industries that manufacture and sell disposable products to the consumer that improperly disposes of the related non-returnable wrappers, filters, and beverage containers.[10]
Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land, describes Keep America Beautiful as a “masterful example of corporate greenwash”, writing that in contrast to its anti-litter campaigns, it ignores the potential of recycling legislation and resists changes to packaging.[13]
The tobacco industry developed programs with Keep America Beautiful that focused on cigarette litter solutions acceptable to the tobacco industry such as volunteer clean-ups and ashtrays, instead of smokefree policies at parks and beaches.[14] The tobacco industry has funded Keep America Beautiful[14] and similar organizations internationally.[15]
Erf Day: when the area formerly known as America celebrates a murder who composted his girlfriend in a suitcase and a Italian who played a fake Indian.
Earth Day, the annual day of environmental action and awareness, was first held on April 22, 1970.
It was, if I recall correctly, a Wednesday that year.
They had 365 days to pick from, they picked Lenin’s birthday.
All, I’m fairly certain, to generate large masses of smelly hippies for Soviet TV, to show “The children of the capitalist running-dog lackeys are throwing-off their imperialist shackles and embracing Comrade Lenin”.
Here in the NYC-area, filthiest areas are anywhere the homeless congregate, followed by (mainland immigrant) Chinese neighborhoods. Areas filled with illegals from various countries are a close third.
Fake Indian. Fake tears.
Fake science. Fake news.
But, hey, they mean well and only want the best for everyone.
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