If you’ve been hidden under a rock lately, chances are you might be the only American who doesn’t know Earth Day is coming Tuesday. Anyone else is going to have a hard time avoiding seeing anything that’s green-related, up to and including venerable items like Campbell’s soup cans (thanks to American Thinker) and even, as Michelle Malkin is one to point out, Time magazine. I saw those same soup cans a couple weeks ago at Wal-Mart myself but didn’t have my camera with me to scoop American Thinker. Oh well.
And if you flip on your TV, we all know that the Weather Channel has been in the tank on the side of pushing the Goreian view of so-called global warming for some time now, naturally they’re making a big deal of Earth Day. But Saturday night I saw that the Fox network was plugging a “Green it, Mean it” promotion of some sort. (Couldn’t tell you what the whole deal was since the only reason I noticed was because the TV set on Fox was directly behind one of the band stages.) Yes, that same Fox which has the news channel liberals love to hate pushing green awareness.
Looking through my grocery ads this week, they’re all featuring reuseable bags for Earth Day. Now I take my plastic bags down the road to get recycled when I collect enough of them so it’s not like they’re completely incompatible with the environment. Maybe they’re not as good as paper bags in that respect, but the reason paper bags fell out of favor was because they tear easily and are probably more expensive to buy for the grocer. On the other hand, cloth bags are really smart for the companies because they can sucker people into paying for their own bags rather than absorb the cost!
Maybe it’s a bad idea for companies to go green when they can’t pass the costs on to their consumers as readily but given the chance to cash in on a green fad that needs to come to an end soon before we do anything stupid – like ratify the Kyoto Protocol or put even more mandates in place like the Maryland General Assembly considered – that corporate green for Earth Day is simply an attempt to give themselves more green to spend. I’m not falling for it (okay, maybe a bit as I’ll discuss tomorrow) and hopefully you won’t either.
I must be under a rock…I didn’t know Earth Day was Tuesday. I knew it was coming up, but since I could care less I didn’t have a clue as to the actual day 😀
“earth day” or as I call it “Happy birthday, mom, and Lenin” is a crock foisted upon us by the modern liberal socialist people of the USA!