Or as Chris Baker said this morning, "Happy National "Destroy the Economy" day!"
Bill C | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 11:52 am | #

Effing Earth Day... effing wankers.
Badda | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 1:53 pm | #

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Sequel | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 2:19 pm | #

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

You didn't want to live forever, did you?
Brent | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 2:22 pm | #

You didn't want to live forever, did you?
Yes, just not here.
Kermit | 04.22.08 - 2:38 pm | #

How did everyone celebrate Earth Day?

I flushed a toilet 10 times in succession for no good reason. It felt good!
A. J. Cers | 04.22.08 - 4:13 pm | #

I'm blowing fragrant cigar smoke into Gaia's air, and in a little while I'm going to let my dog out to piss on her.
Kermit | 04.22.08 - 4:34 pm | #

Tonight I think I will take some of the leaves I raked up this weekend, put 'em in my driveway, and light up the pile just like the old days in the 70's... back when the climate alarmists were first claiming that CO2 emissions were sending us into a new ice age. Not too big a pile, just enough to satisfy 'ol Gaia. Should be fun!
A. J. Cers | 04.22.08 - 5:21 pm | #

I think I can summarize this post in the immortal words of Montgomery Burns:

Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.
jeff | 04.22.08 - 6:04 pm | #

Oh, and a little blurb from Wikipedia history of Earth Day:

On April 22, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Denis Hayes, the national coordinator, and his youthful staff organized massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

Wankers, indeed. I can only imagine the alternate 2008 sans the half that gives a shit. We'd be neck deep in sewage and there'd be a McDonald's on Angleworm Lake to serve hungry BWCAW paddlers.
jeff | 04.22.08 - 6:07 pm | #

I think I can summarize this post
You didn't even come close.
Kermit | 04.22.08 - 6:31 pm | #

Oh come on man, have a sense of humor. I know the real summary is "it's too big, blah, blah, the forests go on forever, etc."
jeff | 04.22.08 - 6:46 pm | #

No, you are 180 degrees out of phase. We're too small.
Kermit | 04.22.08 - 6:55 pm | #

So small we've shaped basically the entire surface, it seems. Changed the weather. Set lakes on fire. Picked up mountains, moved them, got the coal out from underneath, and put them back.

That's not even an argument. The evidence suggests we're *not* too small, so you can close your eyes and wave your hands all you want and it's not going to mean anything. What's "too small"? How big is "big enough" anyways?
jeff | 04.22.08 - 7:04 pm | #

I had visions of celebrating earth day with much loud noise and igniting of gun powder and injecting Mother gaia with lead at high velocties.
Alas, it is still verboten. I'm still buying a couple three or four boxes a week and I'll make up for it in June
maxx | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 7:26 pm | #

So small we've shaped basically the entire surface, it seems.
That statement stands on it's own, I think. We've pushed a little dirt around on the surface. Like ants.
Kermit | 04.22.08 - 7:31 pm | #

Not even that much. Have you ever watched them little suckers move earth?
maxx | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 8:22 pm | #

Earth Day is a celebration of Lenin's birthday.
Badda | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 12:33 pm | #

I celebrated earth day for the past 6 days. We bought a new water heater, drove to and back from St. Joseph MO, had a fire in our burner, grilled out, and bought a "new" used truck. The water heater was a short term hit for me, but in the long term will save me money. The truck is an 06, but has low miles and I made out like a bandit on the deal...AND I will pay out less per month on it than the previous truck. Saving green, especially MY Green, is a good thing.
Jim W | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:29 pm | #

I smoked 5 cigars.

Jeff's Burns quote is excellent.

Having been to the Great Wall of China I must also agree that we have significantly changed the face of the earth. Go look into a few of the huge iron ore pits in MN if you disagree.

I used to fly every week and while there are still sections of the US that we haven't changed, I think we have changed more than 50% of the land. I see tons of farm fields that stretch for miles.

Also, never forget that us ants have the power to completely wipe out most life on this planet. On May 7th, 1945 we forever changed our relationship with the planet. Prior to that only the planet had the power to kill us, after that day we also had the power to kill the planet.
Il Duce' | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:44 pm | #

take a drive down 35 through Iowa. Even their "major city" of Des Moines has oodles of farm land and plains. Not to mention the wind farms as far as the eye can see just over the MN border. Funny thing was, MOST of those weren't in use on our drive down and return drive. Must really be working well for them...
Jim W | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:48 pm | #

There aren't enough transmission lines available to utilize all of the wind power we have built so about 1/3 are idle at any given time.

They produce such an insignificant amount of power that the cost to add lines outweighs any benefits.

This is another dirty little secret about MN wind power; we built it, but it cost too much to turn it all on at once.

Wind also plays hell with balancing the grid.
Il Duce' | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:56 pm | #

And the props kill our winged friends.
Kermit | 04.23.08 - 3:00 pm | #