Tag: Earth Day
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What about Earth’s Threatened and Endangered PEOPLE?
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (May 3, 2026) — Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism. Our public lands, the Endangered Species Act, biodiversity and environmental justice are under threat, they raged. Oceans are filling…
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It’s Time to Put Earth Day to Bed and Get on Taking Care of God’s Creations
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2025 (May 6, 2025) — Earth Day popped up its dizzy head again this year. I was silly thinking that, because the whole Earth Day/Climate Change/Global Warming fraud had been exposed so well over the past decade or so, that we would celebrate farmers, ranchers, coal workers, homesteaders, and…
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As We Watch People Around the World Demanding Freedom, What is Happening to America?
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2022 (Dec. 22, 2022) — We are watching people around the world erupt. They see the writing on the wall and have decided that they aren’t going to take it anymore. In China, from The Economist: “Under a road bridge in central Beijing, just before two o’clock in the morning on…
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Earth Day Still Focussed on Immoral Climate Crusade
by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC-Canada, ©2022 (Apr. 22, 2022) — Today is Earth Day, an event that has been almost entirely hijacked by the ridiculous and dangerous climate change movement. “Climate” appears a total of 10 times on the earthday.org home page and 15 time on the subpage for this year’s event. The first…
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The Real Climate Science Deniers
MANMADE CLIMATE CRISIS PROMOTERS REJECT INCONVENIENT EVIDENCE OF NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (May 17, 2020) — Fifty years ago, I helped organize Earth Day #1 programs on my college campus, calling attention to serious pollution problems that afflicted much of the USA. Over the ensuing decades, laws, regulations, and changed attitudes, practices…
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Trump Right about Prosperity and the Environment
“WHAT REALLY MATTERS” IN SAFEGUARDING THE EARTH by Tom Harris, ©2019 (Apr. 26, 2019) — Despite the anger of activists about President Donald Trump’s official Earth Day statement, he was right to highlight the important role economic prosperity and a strong market economy play in protecting the environment. After all, without prosperity, we cannot afford…
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Earth Day Network Wrong to Connect Extinctions with Global Warming
“WARMING IS GOOD FOR LIFE” by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Apr. 18, 2019) — Monday is Earth Day, an annual event celebrated globally since 1970. Dedicated to demonstrating support for environmental protection, this year’s Earth Day includes events in over 193 countries, coordinated by the Earth Day Network (EDN). For Earth Day…
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Earth Day Should Celebrate “Engines and Electricity”
HOW FAR HAVE WE COME SINCE THE STONE AGE? by Viv Forbes, ©2018, carbon-sense.com (Apr. 22, 2018) — Most chapters of human history are defined by the tools and machines that were used. In the Stone Age, the first tools were “green tools” – digging sticks, spears, boomerangs, bows and arrows made of wood; and…
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Climate Adaptation, Reparation and Restoration
BOULDER, CO WANTS OIL COMPANIES TO RESTORE SNOWY WINTERS OF AN IDYLLIC PAST – AND PAY IT BILLIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Apr. 21, 2018) — This Earth Day (April 22) we need to ask whether environmentalism has gone completely bonkers. Back in the 1970s, I skied Colorado’s cross-country and downhill slopes pretty regularly. Some…
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Trump, Trudeau Deliver Earth Day Present
“BRAVO!” by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2017 (Apr. 26, 2017) — In his official Earth Day statement, President Donald Trump said nothing at all about climate change, global warming, or greenhouse gases. Instead, his April 22nd remarks focused on well-understood issues such as “keeping our air and water clean, … preserving our forests, lakes,…
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Green Energy Poverty Week
A WEEK DEDICATED TO TOPICS THAT UNDERSCORE IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTALISTS DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Apr. 23, 2017) — April 22 was Earth Day, the March for Science and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-free enterprise on the inside). April 29…
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Earth Day Must Divorce Itself from the Climate Scare
EVENT MUST RE-FOCUS ON KNOWN PROBLEMS by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC (Apr. 21, 2017) — All sensible people are environmentalists. We want to enjoy clean air, land, and water and we like to think that future generations will live in an even better environment. These were the original objectives of Earth Day and I…
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Coal’s Troubles Should Concern All Americans
GREEN ADVOCATES WANT TO KILL ALL OUR MAIN ENERGY SOURCES by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Apr. 22, 2016) — Today is Earth Day, a good time to reflect on the damage environmentalism-gone-wild has caused, and will cause if governments continue yielding to their demands. For example, thanks largely to green extremism, coal, our…
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Environmentalism Must Re-Focus on Known Problems
TIME TO CUT CLIMATE CAMPAIGNERS LOOSE by Tom Harris, ©2015 (Apr. 10, 2015) — All sensible people are environmentalists. We want to enjoy clean air, land, and water and we like to think that future generations will live in an even better environment. So, why is it that, according to a Gallup poll released last…
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It’s Rarely About the Environment Anymore
IT’S ABOUT SLASHING OUR ENERGY USE, FREE ENTERPRISE, JOB CREATION, LIVING STANDARDS AND FREEDOMS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Oct. 25, 2014) — Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air,…
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Have You Read My Book – Now Tell Me I Was Wrong?
PREDICTIONS OF OUTSPOKEN LIBERTY PROPONENT HAVE BECOME REALITY by Tom DeWeese, ©2014, Founder, The American Policy Center (Oct. 14, 2014) — You know, it’s been a couple of years since my book was published and I have sold a lot of them as I travel across the country, speaking about Agenda 21. But I took…
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Real Energy for a New American Renaissance
SENSIBLE, RESPONSIBLE ENERGY POLICIES MUST REPLACE TODAY’S SUBSIDIES AND CRONY CORPORATISM by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Aug. 18, 2012) — America needs more economic growth, domestic manufacturing, jobs – and secure, affordable energy to make those things happen. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney understands that achieving this goal requires unleashing American ingenuity, reducing excessive regulatory strangleholds on businesses…
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America Has Been Envislam’d!
IS THE COMBINATION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND ISLAM DESTROYING AMERICA? by Ron Ewart, ©2011 (Apr. 25, 2011) — “Oh sweet, sweet America, if you lose your identity, you lose your soul, your freedom and your sovereignty” – Ron Ewart How is America known, let me count the ways. She is known as a benevolent super power. …