Today is the unofficial holiday of environmentalists the world over: Earth Day. This is the 35th anniversary. So what is Earth Day all about?
It used to stand for things like clean air, clean water and a litter-free environment. Yet from the start, and even more so today, Earth Day and the modern environmental movement have become a haven for socialists, communists and other anti-American types.
This is reflected in the environmentalists' most pressing issue these days: global warming. Despite the fact that scientists disagree on the issue and that there is no definite proof that global warming has in any way been caused by the actions of man, that doesn't matter. All that matters is that environmentalists are using it to drive their anti-capitalist, anti-American agenda.
It seems like every day there's a new headline....there's a hole in the ozone layer...the polar ice caps are melting...the climate is changing....Armageddon is surely at hand! Because of this, the left and their enviro-cronies expect the United States to sign the Kyoto agreement...which would bind us to a set of unattainable rules that would destroy our economy and wouldn't improve the environment.
Which is their real agenda anyway. It's no longer about the environment...it hasn't been for a long time. It's all about a political movement being used to advocate the end of American capitalism. Take, for example the problem of high gas prices.
If you want to know why gas is well over $2 a gallon, look no further than your friendly neighborhood environmentalist who won't allow more refineries to be built, who requires the oil companies to produce some 55 different gasoline blends in the summer and who won't allow oil exploration in many places in the United States which would reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil.
TODAY IS EARTH DAY