I was alive and aware back then. Earth Day was originally concerned with pollution, which was and remains a serious problem for us. (And the E.P.A.was proposed by a Republican president.)
We had never heard the term ‘Global Warming’ back then. As I said previously, we had been told for long while before that a next Ice Age would take us out.
But that concern over pollution has had a lot of good results - see the improvement in the Chesapeake Bay, where all of the grasses were dying in the ‘70s but now are coming back.
It’s one thing to despise current politics. But blaming them on legitimate concerns of 50+ years ago doesn’t make sense.
Lenin’s bEarth Day never had anything to do with pollution; the very date bears that out.
Party labels are irrelevant when it comes to the EPA or any other unconstitutional expansion of the federal government into a leviathan. The Uniparty is far older than the EPA.
I can remember when the L.A. sky was of an orange tint on most days and a deep breath caused in the chest. So yes, lots of progress has been made. But the prevailing attitude of most ‘environmentalists’ today would have us sitting in the dark and pretty much freezing to death. In fact dead is where many of them want us; to save the earth and all.
There is no logic to it. A bird covered in oil from an oil spill is an environmental nightmare. Hundreds of birds killed by wind turbines....crickets. Too much crap is being shoved down our throats in the name of ‘saving the earth’.