If it can be called a "holiday".
Actually I think Earth Day could reasonably be called a holiday. Since the word is derived from Old English
hālig dæg :
or "holy day" it wouldn't be a huge stretch given the religious like aura surrounding the global warming crowd.
Especially here in the Northwest.
And from where I'm sitting now, what I'm about to do would be tantamount to standing up in church and uttering a string of profanities.
Earth Day has to be the stupidest holiday on well... earth.
No matter where you fall on the whole global warming debate (as I sit in a coffee shop, sheltered from rain, hail and 40 degree temps, not to mention the fact that my son's baseball game got snowed out the other day. In the middle of April. Sheesh!) you have to admit that in this day and age you can't go a day without being confronted with some sort of environmentalist propagan... er...educational efforts whether it's sustainable building practices, recycling efforts, at work, school, on vacation, even on Saturday cartoons...etc. etc.
Pretty pervasive.
Not that I disagree with any of that. Conservation is a virtue and an (dare I say) American value. Ben Franklin's "waste not, want not" and all.
But, if for the sake of argument we assume (and I don't) that having one day called Earth Day has resulted in all of the above, can I say something?
Enough already. We get it.
Honestly, in the current ...um, environment, having a day called Earth Day is like waking up every day of the year to presents and turkey and still having one day a year we call Christmas.
Kind of de-values the day if you ask me.
And some cities observe the whole week. What is this? Environmentalist advent?
Even some environmentalists agree with me.
So, in an effort to balance things out and to be a bit iconoclastic, my observance of "Earth Day" will be driving around more than I usually do, breathing harder to increase my carbon footprint, using double the toilet paper and putting all my incandescent bulbs back in.
Who knows? Maybe in my small way I'll bring some significance back to a stupid holiday.
EDIT: Speaking of holidays, does anyone know what April 19th was? First person wins a free subscription. Lol.
UPDATE: A related article here.
"And frankly, to hear people
who are so wealthy that they're clinically obese from excess food and
leisure time yammering on about what kind of light-bulbs they use,
while other people are literally starving to death... It's beyond
bizarre."
Amen.
Comments (10)
Patriot's Day....do I win a garden shovel and a hoe? :sswink:
Yeah...what Tricia said! What's the second prize?
ROFL @ your post. And here I thought I was the only one that thought this holiday was useless.
Living in the protest-capital of the world, with anarchists running rampant and crying over their spilled beers as they get behind the wheel and mow over grandma on their way to a WTO rally.....anyways....
The first celebrated Earth Day was in 1970 if I'm not mistaken. Back in the hippie era. I "loved" those days really. Played outside until your mom called you in for dinner, then ran back out until sunset. Those were the days, but, they bred alot of strange ideas such as this lovely holiday.
I'm with you John...lol. I have a few incandescent bulbs in the rooms I use the most...the frontroom and the spare room, but double the toilet paper???? You're sounding like my boys now....rofl! I'll spare you the agony/lecture and leave that one alone.
When does Reegan get to replay his snowed out game?
Cya!
ROFL....Sarah for you? YOU get the seeds and the dirt ;)
Well, I will go ahead and confess ... I bought some of those stinkin' spiral lightbulbs, but the light they put out SUCKS. (Pardon my language ...)
Was at the store the other day and noticed that they had GE Reveal incandescent bulbs with 40 cent off RIGHT NOW coupons stuck to them. I bought FIVE packs of four bulbs each (that would be 20 light bulbs) ... noticed the coupons had expired while I was in the self-check out line. But guess what? The scanner still took 'em!!!! Yeah, baby!
I've decided I'm going to start stockpiling the things. You don't think the ATF would pull a raid on my house for incandescent lightbulbs, do you?
(Better start stocking up on ammo, too ... LOL) :ssgoofywink:
I have mixed feelings about "Earth Day". Back in the day (in the 70's) when recycling and composting were the "in" thing I didn't have a problem with it. But my background came from good German farmstock -- the ideas of recycling and composting were a part of our lives, before it was "cool". I found it refreshing, but hard to understand that this was new. This was how I grew up -- you don't waste anything. I guess if it made other people aware of it then it was OK, but now it has taken on some really extreme meanings that I can't contribute to. And especially living here in Oregon (like you do) it gets way out of hand. What ever happened to just caring about your own life and taking care of your family?? :ssoh:
@triciaplumley -
You win, Tricia. You get a free subscription...oops. You've got one. Here's another. :)
@Willowlost -
And one to Sarah too, even if she is Canadian. :ssgoofy:
ROFL! Even if she's Canadian??? :ssalien: ewww...I'd hide if I were you son :sswink:
We want gold subscriptions now...lol.
@dragonlady97478 - I agree with you. recycling, conserving were
critical to life on a farm. (My mom grew up on a farm). But
environmentalism has become a political football for the mere purpose
of wielding power so that now it's hard to separate the two.