Enviro-Religion Madness

The environmental terrorists are at it again, celebrating "Earth Day". They tout rabid conservationism as the panacea for all of the perceived ills of the planet. I would just like to know how the earth got along for so long without us humans and our penchant for recycling?

The earth was here before we were and it will most likely be here well after we are gone. Oh my, how will it survive without us humans to recycle?

The earth does a pretty good job of recycling without us actually. In the 90's there was a release of some "low-level" radioactive deuterium (heavy water) into Lake Erie from the Fermi II nuclear power plant in Michigan, yet the fish have not mutated, nor are they dangerous to eat, and there was no effort undertaken by mankind to remediate the lake water. In the 1960's the Cuyahoga River in Ohio actually caught fire because it was a favored dumping ground for volatile chemicals from industry, yet today people still fish from its shores for pleasure and sustenance. There was no remediation done there either. The fire simply burned itself out. How would anyone extinguish an entire river anyway?

All of this time and energy devoted to "saving the environment" is ludicrous. As a species we can't even destroy the environment so how can we be expected to save it? Wasted time and energy is what it all is. And then there is the capitalists like Gore, who stand to make vast amounts of money on the whole idea of greenness. What a crock of (fill in your favorite expletive here).

I drive for a living. I burn about 6400 gallons of diesel fuel per year. I also drive for service in my business and I burn approximately 1300 gallons of gasoline per year. I run my indoor compact fluorescent lighting approximately 2200 hours per year, (more than I would comparable incandescent lighting because it is cheaper to burn). I employ high tech fluorescent safety lighting outside my house that burns from sundown to sunup, even so they consume over 500 watts of power (but create equivalent light to over 4 thousand watts of HID lighting). My electric cell phone chargers are constantly plugged in even if there is no cell phone charging. I pay for it, and the use is minimal. That energy can't be wasted because it can't be saved either. It isn't stored anywhere, it is generated in real time, and you pay only for what you use anyway. I used to work in the field for Detroit Edison in their metering department and the nominal charge for inactivity is just that, nominal. The charge for the metering on an inactive account is less than $5 per month.

I am just so damned sick of everyone bowing at the altar of environmentalism. Enough already. The planet takes care of itself, lets start doing the same. There are far more pressing issues to attend to than wrangling over "paper or plastic". People like to say that all the "man made" items are what is to blame for pollution. Did we import the ingredients for anything that man has made from another planet or universe? It all comes from the earth anyway. For that fact we don't "make" anything, we simply rearrange or assemble what is already here. So tell me, how can the earth pollute itself with itself? When you post your answer, you can become the Enviro-God.