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Every year, a big Earth Fair is held in Balboa Park.
Yay!
So, I think it's just ducky people are saving bits of saran wrap and rinsing out toilet paper or whatever. No, seriously, I do. I think it's really super neato that y'all form a great big traffic jam around Balboa Park so you can sit in traffic, burning fuel, while waiting for one of your other eco-warriors to give up a parking spot.
I think it's great that you descend on the park in a teeming horde, dragging your poor dogs along to demonstrate how much you love animals and the earth. Never mind that the dogs were panting like crazy in 90 degree heat while walking on black asphalt. I'm sure they really enjoyed their day out, and are probably recovering from burnt pads now. Assuming you are smart enough to notice them limping. Didn't see any dog draggers carrying water for their mutts, either.
I like how there are the usual carny booths flogging hot dogs on a stick, funnel cakes and other swill to stuff your maws.
I like how, since the first Earth Day, San Diego has allowed 99% of its wildlands to fall to development.
I like how we're on the edge of critical water shortages, and the city tells us to cut back while allowing more developments to reap the last of the open space.
I like how the Anti-abortion people were the first booth entering the Earth Fair. Yeah, have more humans, that's really eco-friendly! I liked how every nut case organization from the freaking Rainbow Family to the Scientologists were there, what fun! Scientology burns through trees like loggers through old growth, printing out useless crap that nobody will ever read.
I really, really, really hate Earth Day. It's like a Dead concert for hip Greenies; suddenly, ecology is like, totally now, and we're all about it for one day.
In 1970, I organized a desert tortoise restoration project for the first Earth Day. We collected endangered gopher tortoises from people who'd picked them up in the desert and took them home as pets. We then took the half dozen animals we'd collected to the Borrego Desert ranger station.
Now the military is demanding the right to hold war games in the center of tortoise habitat.
The Navy demands the right to blow off sonar tests that appear to cause fatalities in whales.
Hurray for wind farms, that make no attempt to deter the hawks, eagles, falcons and migratory birds the blades slaughter every year.
Yeah, yay for you for recycling and buying whole logs to burn as fuel. It's great that you're using a fabric shopping bag instead of sea-life choking plastic.
The NUMBER ONE problem on this planet is human overpopulation! All problems stem from that one, the one people are assiduously ignoring like the elephant in the living room.
So, no matter how hard you work, the mounds of trash are still going to grow, the habitat critical to species will continue to degrade. Look at the salmon off northern California. Then look at the letters written by idiots who can't understand the importance of smelt in the Sacramento Delta, because humans don't eat them.
And if you know diddly about ecology and the food chain, you'll quit electing actors and businessmen to office, and show the same responsibility you do for that plastic water bottle (which you should not be using) for choosing elected officials who are marginally qualified to steer this country and planet into what is looking to be a very very unpleasant session on planet Earth.