Monday was the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, which used to be focused on actually protecting our home planet. In past years, I discussed how the event, like most of the modern environmental movement, has largely been hijacked by the unscientific climate scare. But today, I am going to quote six of the most interesting statements I have seen over the past few days about Earth Day, leading up to an examination of whether the event is worth continuing.
Note: To hear more from five of the people quoted below, please listen to their interviews on The Other Side of the Story on the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network by clicking on the links in the notes following this article.
James Taylor 1, President of The Heartland Institute, said:
“Earth Day should remind us that collectivist governments and nations have always been the worst stewards of our environment. Today’s climate change frenzy illustrates this. Traditional environmental values like land conservation and species protection are getting sacrificed on the altar of the collectivist climate change belief system.”
Indeed, when the Berlin Wall fell, we all saw the environmental destruction wrought by Communism. The late Dr. Jay Lehr and I have often discussed the environmental abuses we see daily in the People’s Republic of China. Taylor is right — collectivist governments have been a disaster for the environment the world over.
Dr. Sterling Burnett 2, the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News of The Heartland Institute, explained:
“Earth Day has become … virtually meaningless… What was once a day set aside to consider how human activities were impacting the Earth and how we could minimize damage is now nothing more than a marketing ploy: politically connected green special interests touting their highly subsidized technologies as saving the Earth all the while ignoring the hidden environmental damage inherent throughout their supply chains; traditional industries touting the “sustainable” nature of their products built on unverified carbon offsets and minimal or no changes to their resource use and emissions; and “big green” environmental activist groups touting their activism on behalf of renewable energy (bringing in big green donations) purportedly to fight climate change, while in the process giving cover to these technologies to mar landscapes and pristine ecosystem, destroy species habitat and kill endangered and threatened species.”
That’s for sure — Dr. Lehr and I have often written about how “green energy” is anything but green and is, in reality, highly polluting. Michael Moore’s 2020 documentary film, Planet of the Humans, clearly demonstrates that (see this two-minute clip from Moore’s film), when you consider how wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries are made, they are probably the dirtiest and most environmentally destructive energy technologies on the planet.
Steve Milloy 3, of Junkscience.com, explained on X (see Milloy’s discussion of these points on Newsmax with Rob Schmitt):
“On this 55th #EarthDay, it is environmentalists that have become our actual environmental problem. Here are just three examples:
1. Green policies have turned our amazing forests and open spaces into tinderboxes for out-of-control wildfires.
2. Pointless wind and solar farms are destroying open spaces, forests and killing endangered avian and marine wildlife.
3. The climate hoax has sucked so much money out of government that there is nothing left over for problems like the stormwater runoff that is polluting our waterways.”
I agree — the environmental movement is now the greatest threat to the environment.
Frank Lasee 4, a former Wisconsin State Senator, now running TRUTH IN ENERGY AND CLIMATE, spoke about what is really happening to the environment:
“Since the first Earth Day, 54 years ago in 1970, the world’s population has more than doubled. The Earth is feeding more people both as a percent of population and in absolute numbers. The Earth has been generous and there is plenty of room for more people and restored animal habitat.
“Large mammals are making a comeback in Europe because of their fossil fuel provided prosperity. They can afford to protect their habitat. More CO2 is making the Earth much greener over the last 54 years and is increasing crop yields, helping to feed a hungry world.
“Fossil fuels are good for the Earth. Because they can be harvested, processed and used with little impact. They keep the lights on 24/7 and provide us with lifesaving medical equipment, something weather dependent wind and solar cannot.”
Lasee is right, but don’t expect to see such good news from the New York Times or CNN. After all, bad news boosts circulation, and mainstream media are all about profits, not encouraging readers with uplighting TRUTH IN ENERGY AND CLIMATE. Former Texas state Representative Jason Isaac, now a Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, put in well in his Earth Day post on X:
“This #EarthDay2024 is a call to celebrate America, the world’s leading environmental champion. Though you’d never know it from the doom-and-gloom headlines, the United States leads the world in environmental protection having reduced pollution by nearly 80% over the last 5 decades while becoming #1 in access to clean and safe drinking water. Instead of apologizing for our economic success, we should embrace the power of the free market and America’s abundant energy resources to drive environmental and economic progress throughout the rest of the world.”
Well, isn’t that a breath of fresh air?
Gregory Wrightstone 5, Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, expanded on Lasee’s promotion of carbon dioxide as follows:
“As proven by publicly available data, higher amounts of CO2 have made Earth greener and have helped to produce record crop yields that feed a growing a population. CO2’s warming effect, which has been exaggerated to support cynical and misinformed fearmongering, is a lifesaving moderator of global temperatures that keeps the planet from freezing over.
“The absurd claim that CO2 is a pollutant diverts resources to foolish, even dangerous, so-called solutions to a nonexistent problem. The public backlash to this grows daily.”
The backlash Wrightstone refers to is especially pronounced in Europe, which is the topic of this week’s America Out Loud Talk Radio Network episode with Dr. Benny Peiser as Europe’s energy prices skyrocket as farmers fight back! Are US and Canada next? – America Out Loud News.
Milloy summed up the perversion of Earth Day when he said:
“The green agenda has focused on total control of society through the climate hoax and not at all about the environment we live in…Earth Day should be ended or renamed Dearth Day as we are headed unchecked toward a future of energy and food scarcity.”
Exactly. Milloy points out that virtually all of our actual environmental problems have been solved since 1970 (with the exception of several new ones, some of which he pointed out in his Newsmax interview). So, unless Earth Day activists can kick climate campaigners off the stage and return to addressing real environmental problems, I would say, yes, Earth Day has served its purpose, and it’s time for the curtain to come down on the event for good.
Notes: Interviews broadcast on The Other Side of the Story on the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network with five of the experts cited above:
1 Interview with Jame Taylor: “Americans’ Freedom Is Challenged Once Again,” Jun 6, 2022; Learn more about The Heartland Institute, the group Taylor leads, at “Americans Seek Truth with The Heartland Institute as Opposed to Radicals Like Al Gore and Greta Thunberg,” by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
2 Interview with Dr. H. Sterling Burnett: “New UN Climate Report Is Unscientific Propaganda,” Apr 3, 2023
3 Interview with Steve Milloy: “The EPA’s Flawed Particulate Matter Pollution Regulation, the PM2.5 Rule, Must be Repealed,” Dec 5, 2022
4 Interviews with Frank Lasse:
- “‘Global Warming more frightening than Nuclear war,’ Biden says,” Jan 22, 2024
- “The Deadly Energy Threat Posed by the Red Dragon,” Nov 15, 2021
- “One of America’s Great Climate and Energy Warriors Fights For Truth,” Nov 9, 2021
5 Interviews with Gregory Wrightstone:
- “We Should Celebrate Carbon Dioxide, Not Demonize It!” Aug 7, 2023
- “Biden Wrong on Carbon Dioxide – NASA says it is Greening the Planet,” May 17, 2021
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