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Earth Day: The End Is Near

If Islamic extremists hijacked Islam, can we also conclude that environmental extremists hijacked environmentalism? Who doesn't want to get behind Earth Day, after all, ensuring we make informed decisions about pollution, air and water contamination and the preservation of species and habitats? It's the Earth, after all - who hates the Earth?

But the opening sentence of the Official Earth Day 2010 website reads: "Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever." Really? First it was global cooling, then global warming, now it's climate change and tomorrow ... whatever will scare you the most.

Earth Day is the environmental equivalent of that crazy, Apocalypse-obsessed guy with the big sign that reads, "The End is Near." Couldn't we have just been satisfied with happy, cozy, snuggly Arbor Day? 

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What I object to is how the how "global warming" (aka "climate change") has overshadowed every other environmental concern, and all because the Left wants to deepen its control over Western societies. Hijacked indeed!

We need to refocus on issues like the health of our forests, biodiversity, and true pollution. Step 1: Listen to Al Bore, and then do the exact opposite.

"Environmentalism" has hijacked Conservation.

"the world is in greater peril than ever"

That actually sounds like the American right's response to:

Obama
Iran
Pakistan
Muslims
taxes
corporate regulation

...just about anything, really.

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