Clara Illbustyourballs Zetkin wrote:Composting girlfriends....now that's what you call Earth Day dedication.
He's practically a saint. He brought his girlfriend's carbon footprint to zero to save the planet. The ultimate sacrifice. What more can you ask of a man?
An iOTWreport “Earth Day” Perennial Gets a Big Update!
Updated 10th Anniversary version of one of our first posts ever. For 9 years GreeNazi featured AlGore, the Founding Father of Fake Forecasting. We never thought there'd ever come a day when we'd see a bigger climate lunatic but we were wrong. So, this year we pass the Torch of Lunacy to AOC.
How can you do your part on this so-called “Earth Day”? Easy! Any time you get an email today from some business or individual telling you to “go green” for Earth Day or some similar crap, reply to them with this graphic and tell them they've earned a subscription to GreeNazi magazine!
My Our beet collective began our celebration of Glorious Earth Day as our proles marched down to the beet fields, while heartily singing Heroic Songs of Peoples' Democratic Socialism!
Once at their destination, they then gleefully and selflessly donated their labor to maintain our beet fields, to the point that we might possibly meet our quotaGoal (for which CommissarKindly Uncle Unkulturny is greatly relieved...) They only paused this labor at their designated lunch time when the Vend-A-Turnip mobile food truck stopped by.
Finally, as the day ended, they marched back to their barracks very comfortable apartments, tired but happy at their contribution to The Peoples' Beet Inventory. (The best workers always receive a delicious potato, while anyone denounced as a slacker receives only another small turnip.)
Come to think of it, this is pretty much the schedule of every day here at Beet Collective #324... So we must be celebrating Earth DayEVERY DAY!
Komissar al-Blogunov wrote:
Did you see who Einhorn's (Unicorn's) lawyer was?
No I had not before you grabbed on to that juicy interesting tidbit. The part where the Unicorn's lawyer 'later dropped the case' to run for and win a seat in the U.S. Senate seems to be a bit of horsassbullshit. When you 'dig up' some character witnesses for a guy who killed and let the corpse of his girlfriend compost in a suitcase under some Styrofoam and newspapers for a couple of years in his house where he was saving the planet for everyone (except his girlfriend), and you get him released and he immediately disappears for 23 years......... life must go on while you are waiting for the police to re-capture him.
The fact that it all happened before the 365,24/7 news cycle was invented and then later the facts hidden for obvious reasons to not diminish (for our own good) the joy of Mandatory Earth Day is why we are not familiar with this story. Lots of interesting trivia, including (you'll like this G.D.) Ira named himself the Unicorn because Einhorn is German for Unicorn. So wonderful that the Unicorn/Killer is an icon of Mandatory Earth Day, read about it here...................
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America's rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,' and he'll say, `I am very sorry, there isn't any.'”
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
That was the 97% of 1970.
But it is interesting to note they were expecting communist countries to starve.
Komissar al-Blogunov wrote:
Did you see who Einhorn's (Unicorn's) lawyer was?
No I had not before you grabbed on to that juicy interesting tidbit. The part where the Unicorn's lawyer 'later dropped the case' to run for and win a seat in the U.S. Senate seems to be a bit of horsassbullshit. When you 'dig up' some character witnesses for a guy who killed and let the corpse of his girlfriend compost in a suitcase under some Styrofoam and newspapers for a couple of years in his house where he was saving the planet for everyone (except his girlfriend), and you get him released and he immediately disappears for 23 years......... life must go on while you are waiting for the police to re-capture him.
The fact that it all happened before the 365,24/7 news cycle was invented and then later the facts hidden for obvious reasons to not diminish (for our own good) the joy of Mandatory Earth Day is why we are not familiar with this story. Lots of interesting trivia, including (you'll like this G.D.) Ira named himself the Unicorn because Einhorn is German for Unicorn. So wonderful that the Unicorn/Killer is an icon of Mandatory Earth Day, read about it here...................
Poles say:
Wygląda jakby uciekł(a) grabarzowi spod łopaty.
Literally: (S|He) looks like only just ran away from under a gravedigger's [um, well] spade.
Meaning: looks ravaged/battered/ailing/zombie-like/ugly/... , also: escaped a close call.
KD: I want to ask you one thing. Just one thing.
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KD: Are you listening?
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KD: What are the Kubes made of?
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Red Square wrote:
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Ah! Such fond childhood memories!
We have been given 10 years to save the planet every 5 years for the last 50 years.
It is good to see that some things never change!
Komrade Grendelssohnovovich,
Peoples' Geometer,
Celebrating survival of 10 consecutive End of the Worlds, and looking forward to 11!
p.s. Where was the AOC 50 years ago...?
p.p.s. Not implying anything! Oh, NO! No insinuations here!
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
Are these organisms now forming caravans to southern border?
Grendelssohnovovich [color=#70b048]Peoples' Geometer[/color] wrote:... given 10 years to save the planet every 5 years for the last 50 years ...
Jawohl! Der Planet!
Documenting the Planetary Quintinoidal Kritikality (under KKKapitalizm!):
Note: It's Geometer-attested! (see the kalipers, Komrade?)
Like a hammer hangs it over the Planet: build, build, build, kkkapitalist, and fume, fume, fume, yer grim furnaces - while fossilizedly pollutio-carbonizing all of our precious worldly fluids.
Until there comes (see Document!) a charnel blast, turning the enviro-firmament red-hot.
(after which the Rise of the Oceans begins to Slow, the Planet begins to Heal, and the next Quintum starts... - da capo al fine.)
Geometer, with geometry in backdrop, seriously geometerizing:
Grendelssohnovovich [color=#70b048]Peoples' Geometer[/color] wrote:... given 10 years to save the planet every 5 years for the last 50 years ...
Jawohl! Der Planet!
Geometer, with geometry in backdrop, seriously geometerizing:
(Komradette Clara, you grok the Math, ja?)
I'm not math gendered or fluid G.D. but what Komrade Grendel describes is what has been in the tabloids we've been reading while killing time in line waiting to pay for groceries since the 70s. The planet has been on a brink of disaster like a bad fad yo yo diet that we also read about in these same tabloids. We are going to die because it's too hot then an about face and we are going to freeze. They've been crying wolf for decades...................
Must I remind you of how Komradette Clara grokked the math in school.....
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Um, isn't that pretty much what we've been doing for the past few dozen millennia since we started planting people in the ground after they've shuffled off this mortal coil?
Of course, for the past few hundred years we've been poisoning the bodies first and then sticking them in massively expensive wooden boxes second, but they will eventually make their final contribution to Mother Gaia...
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