The Earliest and Strangest Earth Day Celebration Ever
Published By: All Right Magazine on April 22, 2009
By LIBBY EARL
I must admit that I am a bit confused. About two weeks ago, I got invited to a large political rally. It was way earlier than Earth Day usually is, but since all the television shows I watch have really put the word out this year, I just thought that people were finally getting the message, but I may have been duped.
The person who invited me kept saying something about “the savoir,” which I thought was suspicious at the time because despite all the Save the Earth signs I had seen, I had heard nothing about Al Gore speaking in my hometown. Reluctantly I went anyhow, hoping that it was at least another major expert such as Ted Danson.
Needless to say, it wasn’t even Ted Danson. I had never heard of the guy who was speaking, and frankly I was worried because he was wearing a robe in public. Come to think of it, this guy might have had a Hugh Hefner complex because he did mention a few things about chocolate bunnies, and I was deeply offended both by the racial slur and by the unashamed misogyny.
It gets worse. The little speech he gave was an endless ramble about an Hispanic man, but the uncultured dunce didn’t even realize that the “J” is to be pronounced as an “H.” As he continued the rant, I couldn’t believe my own ears. He spoke of this man’s death, and what’s more actually said that it was a good thing. At that point I simply tuned out, as anyone with moral fiber should when racism, blatant or subtle, is in play.
And the nerve of these people. They had the audacity to pass around a tip jar after the house band played a bunch of songs that sounded as if they were written in the nineteenth century and after serving the SMALLEST snack ever, a tiny cracker, and the most watered down shot of booze ever. You couldn’t even taste the alcohol.
Everyone was such a phony, too. They kept acting as though they were happy to see me when they didn’t have the foggiest idea who I was. No one is that friendly without an agenda. And they kept talking about doing good deeds, but I didn’t see a single recycling bin anywhere. Also they were all wearing ties and dresses, which was also a sign of untrustworthiness. As a regular person who just barely manages to makes ends meet, I felt uncomfortable in my “Change We Can Believe In” T-Shirt and my hemp sandals. People with that kind of money always vote Republican.
Libby Earl is an uber-opinionated, well-meaning soul who just doesn’t get it.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Up here in Canada it was also administrative assistant’s day………….LOL The wife works in municipal government in an environmental capacity.
I don’t knock anyone’s good intentions but I am tired of all the fear mongering used to coral the sheep into a herd of collective thought!
I am all for a healthy planet and would love to see harmless products substitute the poison that surrounds us in every day life.
I regularly tire from silly schemes, shameless antics and preferred theorys.
I am sure the world isn’t flat and that it’s been around for a while. It goes around the sun and follows whatever pattern the sun exerts on it.
Does anyone want an ice age? How do we know if it is good or bad? As far as Humans are concerned, we have multiplied as the Earth warmed. Are too many Humans on the planet a threat? What about the resources we need? If sequestering carbon can cool the planet and releasing carbon will heat the planet, can’t Humans find a balance?
So many questions!
Why is it then that so many will dim the lights and sit around burning inefficient candles which have a greater carbon footprint to prove a point?
Politics is as much about belonging as making policy. Belonging is more important to most then making change!
I’d love to see some rogue scientist that doesn’t need to belong and doesn’t bend to politics that lays out the info without an editor!
I’d love it more if so-called environmentalists actually understood what they were doing.