LIFE ON THIS EARTH

How did you survive the Earth Day propaganda? It is better to celebrate Administrative Professionals' Day.

Reading material:

• Celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day by Craig Biddle.
• Happy (Life on This) Earth Day! by Gus Van Horn.
• Environmentalism vs Creativity by Wayne Dunn.
• The Earth is Mankind's Garden by Nicholas Provenzo.

Related: My post, EXPLOIT THE EARTH.

TURN ON THE LIGHT AT 8:30 PM

Keep the light on / or switch it on at 8:30 PM local time. Send a mental thank-you note to Edison. [Editor's comment: Do the environmentalists want to live as they do in North Korea?]


Image source: Strange Maps.

I remember the impressive neon lights in Hong Kong in 1992.

EXPLOIT THE EARTH

How did you manage during Earth Day?



"Greenwash Guerrillas Pie Thomas Friedman on Earth Day."


Earth Day '08



Here is an excerpt from Craig Biddle's post, On April 22, Celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day.

Exploiting the Earth—using the raw materials of nature for one’s life-serving purposes—is a basic requirement of human life. According to environmentalism, however, man should not use nature for his needs; he should keep his hands off “the goods”; he should leave nature alone, come what may.

Environmentalism is not concerned with human health and wellbeing—neither ours nor that of generations to come. If it were, it would advocate the one social system that ensures that the Earth and its elements are used in the most productive, life-serving manner possible: capitalism.

Capitalism is the only social system that recognizes and protects each individual’s right to act in accordance with his basic means of living: the judgment of his mind. Environmentalism, of course, does not and cannot advocate capitalism, because if people are free to act on their judgment, they will strive to produce and prosper; they will transform the raw materials of nature onto the requirements of human life; they will exploit the Earth and live. (The Objective Standard - Principles in Practice, 04/17/08.)

DENIAL MACHINE

I haven't blogged for a week, and after watching a documentary called The Denial Machine, it was pretty hard to come up with something positive to write about..., but here is a try:

• I will write a blog post on history on a regular basis for at least 10 weeks.
• I will prepare for starting a new series of radio show / podcast interviews.

GOING POSTAL IN GOTHENBURG

In the news: Armed Robbery Goes Postal in Sweden.

Things are going postal in Gothenburg... Al Gore is here to receive a "tree hugger" prize and an armed robbery happened at a mail center.

EXPLOIT THE EARTH OR DIE

Read Craig Biddle's post, Exploit the Earth or Die.

"10 GREEN DEATH TIPS"

Until yesterday, I thought that the environmentalist position could be summed up as: "A good man is a dead man." It turns out, however, that I was only partly right: it depends on how you die. In the last of her five-part series of sermons ... I mean, articles that's just appeared in The Daily Telegraph, environmentalist Julia Hailes gives the faithful ten tips on how to avoid turning their cherished union with their goddess Gaia into a climate crime.

Here's your chance to test your awareness of green issues: How many of the ten tips can you make sense of? My score is 1 out of 10. This is the one I understood:

• Give cremation a miss

Of course, this is the absolute beginner's question. As an obedient and humble little Earth Citizen, the last thing you would not want to do is erupt in a flame of rebellion and ascend towards the sky in the form of CO₂ and other sacrilegious substances. Your last duty is to go down where you belong and let your body feed the Weeds, Worms, and all the other Saints.

Anyone willing to help me figure out the rest?

• Donate your organs

Perhaps this has to do with recycling?

• Say no to embalming

Mother Julia mentions something about the "horrors of embalming" on her home page, but she takes it for granted we know what they are. I am clearly too ignorant to be worthy of this great religion...

• Select a "green" coffin (those made from recycled newspapers are best)

I thought wood decomposed just as well as, if not better than, paper? In any case, I nominate this as the funniest line of the entire sermon series!

• Remove all jewellery and gold teeth before burial or cremation

I'll try, although I must admit I sometimes found it difficult to remove my own milk teeth when I was 5, so I'm not sure how well I'll do with my permanent teeth when I am dead.

But I was so perplexed by this commandment that I did some research on what beef environmentalists have with jewellery--to discover that there is an entire industry built around protesting jewellery not being earth-friendly enough.

One gold ring, conservationists say, generates 20 tons of mine waste.

And how much more envy!

On to the next tip for getting intimate with earth:

• Dress minimal in death and choose natural fibre clothes such as hemp

If I didn't know who the author was, I could have sworn this list was written by a non-believer making fun of the greenies!

• If you want to be buried, chose a natural burial ground rather than an overcrowded graveyard

Stop cities from sprawling, so all the world can be turned into a cemetery? Am I on to something?

• Re-use graves after 20 years and put bones in an ossuary, as they do in Europe

I've seen many graves in Hungary that are 30, 50, or even 100 years old. I guess not all that's Europe is green!

• Choose not to have a headstone

I cannot for my life figure out how a stone is going to damage the earth. I mean, isn't that where the stone came from in the first place?

• Don't waste valuable resources on elaborate pet coffins, urns and caskets

My best guess on this is that the elaborate ornaments wouldn't go well with the recycled paper the coffin is made of. But that's just me, thinking about worldy matters like style and taste while Mother Julia is trying to save my soul from eco-damnation! It looks like it will be a cold day on Earth when I score well on this test...

GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE

I watched The Great Global Warming Swindle the other day. It was a fact based documentary and it exposed the hot air by the environmentalists. I wonder if the "greens" will start screaming against the sun soon...