What A Coincidence!

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Today......April 22nd..........A two-fer!!!

1. Vladimir Lenin, also called Vladimir Ilich Lenin, original name Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, (born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia —died January 21, 1924, Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow ), founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern ....
Britannica.com



AND......


2. First Earth Day
First celebrated on this day in 1970 in the U.S., Earth Day—founded by American politician and conservationist Gaylord Anton Nelson—helped spark the environmental movement and quickly grew into an international event.




BTW.....


3. On the excellent webcast Uncommon Knowledge, Czech president Václav Klaus recently compared “two ideologies” that were “structurally very similar. They are against individual freedom. They are in favor of centralistic masterminding of our fates. They are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat, how to travel, what we can do and what we cannot do.” The first of Klaus’s “two ideologies” was Communism—a system with which he was deeply familiar, having participated in the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The second was environmentalism.
The Varieties of Liberal Enthusiasm by Benjamin A. Plotinsky, City Journal Spring 2010


4. It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism. Earth Day is naked communism. To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind. The Earth does not demand a moral code of personal behavior. While America was established to ensure “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, environmentalism exists to exert more and more control over our lives by limiting our choices, our liberty.
Warning Signs: The Naked Communism of Earth Day

The Naked Communism of Earth Day

By Alan Caruba It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic wh...

factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

5. We are about to witness a worldwide pagan rite – the worship of the earth, the worship of Gaia, (Earth Mother). Earth Day is the worship of nature — rather than Nature’s God.

Though touted as, somehow, NEW, worship of the earth is likely the oldest religion on earth. Born of child-like ignorance, it has survived centuries and is, once again, robust and thriving among those people of earth who have lost their way and have reclaimed this form of paganism …” Earth Day, The High Holy Day of Paganism | The Silent Majority Earth Day, The High Holy Day of Paganism | The Silent Majority

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Leftism is the most dynamic religion in the world today.

From the Evergreen State College course catalogue:

"And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not! Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples."

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Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.”” … Michael Crichton

 

[Dick Foster]

Leftism is the most dynamic religion in the world today.

From the Evergreen State College course catalogue:

"And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not! Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples."

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Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.”” … Michael Crichton

A college education in this nation has become essentially worthless and it's value is likewise just as worthless.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Leftism is the most dynamic religion in the world today.

From the Evergreen State College course catalogue:

"And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not! Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples."

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Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.”” … Michael Crichton

A college education in this nation has become essentially worthless and it's value is likewise just as worthless.

 

[Dick Foster]

Leftism is the most dynamic religion in the world today.

From the Evergreen State College course catalogue:

"And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not! Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples."

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Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.”” … Michael Crichton

A college education in this nation has become essentially worthless and it's value is likewise just as worthless.

View attachment 326611

Exactly so teaching and encouraging them to think and use their intellect to solve problems like they once were now they're being trained to conform and obey like trained seals.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Leftism is the most dynamic religion in the world today.

From the Evergreen State College course catalogue:

"And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not! Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples."

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Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.”” … Michael Crichton

A college education in this nation has become essentially worthless and it's value is likewise just as worthless.

View attachment 326611

Exactly so teaching and encouraging them to think and use their intellect to solve problems like they once were now they're being trained to conform and obey like trained seals.

And, based on the posts we see.......it's working.


Did you see this?


"Study: Majority Of Homeschoolers Arrive At College Woefully Unprepared For Gender Studies
April 20th, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Education experts and policymakers are sounding the alarm today after a newly released study revealed that homeschoolers are eleventy-billion percent more likely to start their college careers shockingly unprepared for gender studies. According to teachers union officials familiar with the situation, homeschooling parents are neglecting to teach their children even the most basic principles of gender identity.

"An unprecedented number of poorly educated kids arrive at college actually identifying with their biological sex," said Dr. Xindri Pavlovix. "It's a concerning trend. These kids aren't learning the basic difference between biological sex and gender expression or identity. I asked one of my male students what his gender identity and preferred pronouns were, and he just stared at me with a dumb look on his face. Unbelievable!"
To ensure this disturbing trend is reversed, educators have suggested banning homeschooling entirely. Others have suggested going even further and just banning parents altogether. "Parents are an outdated relic of a patriarchal society," said Dr. Pavlovix. "They are endangering our kids and need to be removed from the home immediately."
When reached for comment on the situation, one local dad simply shrugged and continued his "Rifle Marksmanship and Constitutional Law" lesson to his 14 kids. "

Study: Majority Of Homeschoolers Arrive At College Woefully Unprepared For Gender Studies

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Education experts and policymakers are sounding the alarm today after a newly released study revealed that homeschoolers are eleventy-billion percent more likely to start their college careers shockingly unprepared for gender studies. According to teachers union officials...

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The Bee nailed it.

 

[Dick Foster]

Leftism is the most dynamic religion in the world today.

From the Evergreen State College course catalogue:

"And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not! Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples."

Entertainment - MarketWatch

Entertainment and media news coverage from MarketWatch.

heatst.com

Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.”” … Michael Crichton

A college education in this nation has become essentially worthless and it's value is likewise just as worthless.

View attachment 326611

Exactly so teaching and encouraging them to think and use their intellect to solve problems like they once were now they're being trained to conform and obey like trained seals.

And, based on the posts we see.......it's working.


Did you see this?


"Study: Majority Of Homeschoolers Arrive At College Woefully Unprepared For Gender Studies
April 20th, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Education experts and policymakers are sounding the alarm today after a newly released study revealed that homeschoolers are eleventy-billion percent more likely to start their college careers shockingly unprepared for gender studies. According to teachers union officials familiar with the situation, homeschooling parents are neglecting to teach their children even the most basic principles of gender identity.

"An unprecedented number of poorly educated kids arrive at college actually identifying with their biological sex," said Dr. Xindri Pavlovix. "It's a concerning trend. These kids aren't learning the basic difference between biological sex and gender expression or identity. I asked one of my male students what his gender identity and preferred pronouns were, and he just stared at me with a dumb look on his face. Unbelievable!"
To ensure this disturbing trend is reversed, educators have suggested banning homeschooling entirely. Others have suggested going even further and just banning parents altogether. "Parents are an outdated relic of a patriarchal society," said Dr. Pavlovix. "They are endangering our kids and need to be removed from the home immediately."
When reached for comment on the situation, one local dad simply shrugged and continued his "Rifle Marksmanship and Constitutional Law" lesson to his 14 kids. "

Study: Majority Of Homeschoolers Arrive At College Woefully Unprepared For Gender Studies

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Education experts and policymakers are sounding the alarm today after a newly released study revealed that homeschoolers are eleventy-billion percent more likely to start their college careers shockingly unprepared for gender studies. According to teachers union officials...

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The Bee nailed it.

Gender studies WTF is that shit? How about math, science and engineering or something that matters and can be used to advance mankind? I knew all I needed to know about gender when I started liking girls and chasing tail. I must have had an equivalent to a PHd by the time I graduated high school. I'd studied your gender very intensely for over four years by then. Mine of course I already knew about from a lifetime of first hand experience.

 

[PoliticalChic]

UNITED NATIONS — Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country.
The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to “dominate and exploit” — to the point that the “well-being and existence of many beings” is now threatened…. It also establishes a Ministry of Mother Earth, and provides the planet with an ombudsman whose job is to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state.
UN document would give 'Mother Earth' same rights as humans



“In our contemporary era, Earth Day has become the modern celebration of Gaia. Partakers of this event, whether aware of it or not, play off the ancient pagan beliefs of a Universal Mother. Like the sacred oaths taken in her name, today’s Earth Day celebrants sign environmental petitions, make pledges, and announce resolutions in support of Mother Earth. And like the old sacrifices to the deity, today’s Earth Day practitioners offer sacrifices of “good works” to the planet. Not only is the Earth a deity to be venerated, but the Earth itself – as the representative and embodiment of the Goddess – has become a modern day idol.”
All For Gaia: Earth Day and Total Transformation for a Post-Christian World « Forcing Change

 

[PoliticalChic]

I wonder how many know that the United Nations was a creation of Joseph Stalin?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Celebrate Earth Day (April 22)

by reminding liberals of all the whacko predictions made by environmentalists in 1970, the year the event was founded: a new Ice Age (Newsweek); a world "eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" (Kenneth Watt); by 1985 air pollution to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half (Life magazine); by 1995 between 75 and 85 percent of all species to be extinct (Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson); mass starvation (Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes). Say: "Thank you, thank you, Earth Day! If those 20 million hippies hadn't taken the day off work, we'd all be dead by now!" by James Delingpole, 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy,​

 

[alang1216]

Today......April 22nd..........A two-fer!!!


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1. Vladimir Lenin, also called Vladimir Ilich Lenin, original name Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, (born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia —died January 21, 1924, Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow ), founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern ....
Britannica.com



AND......


2. First Earth Day
First celebrated on this day in 1970 in the U.S., Earth Day—founded by American politician and conservationist Gaylord Anton Nelson—helped spark the environmental movement and quickly grew into an international event.




BTW.....


3. On the excellent webcast Uncommon Knowledge, Czech president Václav Klaus recently compared “two ideologies” that were “structurally very similar. They are against individual freedom. They are in favor of centralistic masterminding of our fates. They are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat, how to travel, what we can do and what we cannot do.” The first of Klaus’s “two ideologies” was Communism—a system with which he was deeply familiar, having participated in the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The second was environmentalism.
The Varieties of Liberal Enthusiasm by Benjamin A. Plotinsky, City Journal Spring 2010


4. It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism. Earth Day is naked communism. To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind. The Earth does not demand a moral code of personal behavior. While America was established to ensure “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, environmentalism exists to exert more and more control over our lives by limiting our choices, our liberty.
Warning Signs: The Naked Communism of Earth Day

The Naked Communism of Earth Day

By Alan Caruba It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic wh...

factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

5. We are about to witness a worldwide pagan rite – the worship of the earth, the worship of Gaia, (Earth Mother). Earth Day is the worship of nature — rather than Nature’s God.

Though touted as, somehow, NEW, worship of the earth is likely the oldest religion on earth. Born of child-like ignorance, it has survived centuries and is, once again, robust and thriving among those people of earth who have lost their way and have reclaimed this form of paganism …” Earth Day, The High Holy Day of Paganism | The Silent Majority Earth Day, The High Holy Day of Paganism | The Silent Majority

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We are stewards of the Earth. Very poor ones usually. How many people have died from our environmental ignorance? I can't see how Earth Day is anything but a wake up call for us all.

Environmental disasters by category

Agricultural
Main article: Environmental impact of agriculture

• Mismanagement and shrinking of the Aral Sea
• Salinity in Australia
• Salinization of the Fertile Crescent
• The Dust Bowl in Canada and the United States (1934–1939)
• The Great sparrow campaign; sparrows were eliminated from Chinese farms, which caused locusts to swarm the farms and contributed to a famine which killed 38 million people.
• Africanized bees, known colloquially as "killer bees"
• "Dirty dairying" in New Zealand
• Salton Sea California, U.S.

Biodiversity

• Chestnut blight
• Extinction of Australian megafauna
• Deforestation of Easter Island
• Destruction of the old growth forests
• Rabbits in Australia
• Red imported fire ants
• Dutch Elm Disease
• Devil facial tumour disease
• Reduction in the number of the American Bison
• Introduction of the Nile perch into Lake Victoria in Africa, decimating indigenous fish species
• The Saemangeum Seawall
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef
• 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter
• Invasive species in New Zealand
• The loss of biodiversity of New Zealand
• Ghost nets
• Grounding of SS Makambo on Lord Howe Island
• Shark finning
• Decline of vultures in India due to Diclofenac leading to increased incidence of rabies
• Extinction of the Tasmanian tiger (thylacine)

Human health

• Introduction of the bubonic plague (the Plague of Justinian) in Europe from Africa in the 7th century resulting in the death of up to 60% (100 million) of the population.
• Introduction of the bubonic plague (the Black Death) in Europe from Central Asia in the 14th century resulting in the death of up to 60% (200 million) of the population and recurring until the 18th century.
• Introduction of infectious diseases by Europeans causing the death of indigenous people during European colonization of the Americas
• Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks
• Goiânia accident, human deaths resulting from dismantling a scrapped medical machine containing a source of radioactivity
• Agent Orange use by the United States during the Vietnam War, resulting in lasting serious health effects on the Vietnamese population, such as cancer, nervous system disorders, and countless related fatalities.

Industrial

• Spring Valley, a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. which was used as a chemical weapons testing ground during World War I.
• Minamata disease (1950s and 1960s) mercury poisoning in Japan
• Ontario Minamata disease in Canada
• Itai-itai disease, due to cadmium poisoning in Japan
• Love Canal toxic waste site
• Seveso disaster (1976), chemical plant explosion, caused highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations
• Times Beach, Missouri (1983) the town was completely evacuated due to a dioxin contamination
• Bhopal disaster (December 3, 1984, India), leak of methyl isocyanate that took place in 1984 resulted in more than 22,000 deaths.
• Sandoz chemical spill into the Rhine river (1986)
• United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites in the United States
• AZF Explosion at a Toulouse chemical factory (2001)
• 2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions
• The Sydney Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens sites in the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, known as the largest toxic waste site in North America.
• Release of lead dust into Esperance Harbour.
• Release of cyanide, heavy metals and acid into the Alamosa River, Colorado from the Summitville mine, causing the death of all aquatic life 17 miles downstream.
• Release of 20,000 gallons of lethal chemicals (metam sodium, tradename Vapam) into the Upper Sacramento River near Dunsmuir, causing the death of all aquatic life within a 38-mile radius.
• Release of CFCs resulting in ozone depletion
• Release of sulfur dioxide after a fire at the Al-Mishraq plant in Iraq
• The Phillips Disasters
• Health issues on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation due to chemical factories
• Environmental issues with the Three Gorges Dam
• Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
• The Great Smog in London in 1952
• 1948 Donora smog

Mining
Main article: Environmental impact of mining

See also: List of tailings dam failures

• Phosphate mining in Nauru, from 1906 to the 1990s
• Phosphate mining in St. Pierre Island from 1906 to 1972
• 1947 Centralia mine disaster, a coal mine in Illinois
• Centralia mine fire, Pennsylvania, burning since 1962
• Mountaintop removal mining in the US since the 1960s
• Aberfan disaster, collapse of a coal mining waste pile in Wales, 1966
• The tailings dam from the now abandoned Tui mine in New Zealand, 1966 to 2013
• Darvaza gas crater in Derweze, Turkmenistan, burning since 1971
• Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park in Australia, 1981 to 2009
• Ok Tedi environmental disaster in Papua New Guinea beginning in 1984
• Omai gold mine tailing dam breach in Guyana, 1995
• Marcopper mining disaster in the Philippines, March 1996
• Doñana disaster, tailing dam breach of the Los Frailes zinc/silver mine in Spain, April 1998
• 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill of a gold mine in Romania, January 2000
• Martin County sludge spill in Kentucky, October 2000
• Lead dust from the Magellan Metals mine in Australia, 2006
• Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, April 2010
• Padcal tailings spills of August-September 2012
• Talvivaara gypsum pond leak, Finland, 2012
• Obed Mountain coal mine spill in Alberta, Canada, October 2013
• Mount Polley mine disaster, British Columbia, 2014
• 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill in Colorado, August 2015
• Mariana dam disaster, Samarco iron ore mine tailings dam failure, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo to the Atlantic sea. Brazil, November 2015
• Brumadinho dam disaster of an iron ore mine in Brazil, January 2019

Oil industry
Main article: environmental impact of the oil shale industry

See also: List of oil spills

• Lakeview Gusher oil spill in California, 1910 –1911
• Leaded gasoline introduced 1920s; phased out globally by 2012.
• Greenpoint oil spill in Brooklyn, New York, 1940s–1980
• Mississippi River oil spill (1962–1963)
• Torrey Canyon oil spill off the SW coast of the United Kingdom, February 1967
• Lago Agrio oil field spills in Ecuador, since 1972 (possibly the worst of all)
• MV Sea Star and Horta Barbosa tankers collision and oil spill into the Gulf of Oman, December 1972
• Jakob Maersk oil spill off the coast of Portugal, January 1975
• Environmental issues in the Niger Delta relating to the oil industry, 1976–1996
• Arctic Refuge drilling controversy, since 1977
• Amoco Cadiz shipwreck and oil spill off the coast of Brittany, France, March 1978
• Ixtoc I oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, June 1979
• SS Atlantic Empress collision and spill near Trinidad and Tobago, August 1979
• MT Independența collision and spill near Istanbul, November 1979
• Nowruz oil spills into the Persian Gulf, March 1983
• Castillo de Bellver oil spill off the coast of South Africa, August 1983
• Odyssey tanker shiprwreck and oil spill, off the coast of Nova Scotia, November 1988
• Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 1989
• Gulf War oil spill into the Persian Gulf, January 1991
• MT Haven explosion and oil spill of the coast of Italy, April 1991
• ABT Summer explosion and oil spill off the coast of Angola, May 1991
• Mingbulak oil spill in Uzbekistan, March 1992
• MV Braer shipwreck and oil spill at the Shetland Islands, January 1993
• Taylor oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, since 2004
• Sidoarjo mud flow triggered by Lapindo Brantas gas exploration in 2006; East Java, Indonesia
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, April to July 2010
• 2010 ExxonMobil oil spill in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, May 2010
• Jebel al-Zayt oil spill in the Red Sea, June 2010
• Xingang Port oil spill into the Yellow Sea, July 2010
• Sanchi oil tanker collision in the East China Sea, January 2018

Nuclear

• Chernobyl disaster in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine killed 49 people and was estimated to have damaged almost $7 billion of property".[1] Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".[1]
• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: Following an earthquake, tsunami, and failure of cooling systems at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and issues concerning other nuclear facilities in Japan on March 11, 2011, a nuclear emergency was declared. This was the first time a nuclear emergency had been declared in Japan, and 140,000 residents within 20 km of the plant were evacuated.[2] Explosions and a fire have resulted in dangerous levels of radiation, sparking a stock market collapse and panic-buying in supermarkets.[3]
• Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion, (Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, 29 September 1957), 200+ people died and 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over thirty small communities had been removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991.[4]
• Windscale fire, United Kingdom, October 8, 1957. Fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms.[5]
• Soviet submarine K-431 accident, August 10, 1985 (10 people died and 49 suffered radiation injuries).[6]
• Soviet submarine K-19 accident, July 4, 1961. (8 deaths and more than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation).[7]
• Nuclear testing at Moruroa and Fangataufa in the Pacific Ocean
• Fallout from the Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands
• The health of Downwinders
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.
• Hanford Nuclear, 1986 – The U.S. government declassifies 19,000 pages of documents indicating that between 1946 and 1986, the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, released thousands of US gallons of radioactive liquids. Radioactive waste was both released into the air and flowed into the Columbia River (which flows to the Pacific Ocean). In 2014, the Hanford legacy continues with billions of dollars spent annually in a seemingly endless cleanup of leaking underground

Air/land/water

• Proliferation of plastic shopping bags
• Hong Kong Plastic Disaster

Air
See also: Air pollution

• The Donora Smog of 1948 in Donora, Pennsylvania in the United States
• The Great Smog of 1952, which killed 4,000 Londoners
• The 1983 Melbourne dust storm
• The 1997 Southeast Asian haze
• The 2005 Malaysian haze
• The 2006 Southeast Asian haze
• The Great Smog of Delhi in November 2016
• Yokkaichi asthma in Japan
• Health problems due to the Jinkanpo Atsugi Incinerator in Japan
• Kuwaiti oil fires
• Burning of the Amazon forest-2019

Land

• The Dust Bowl of Canada and the United States in the 1930s
• Contaminated soils in Mapua, New Zealand due to the operation of an agricultural chemicals factory from 1932 to 1989
• Basin F, a disposal site in the United States created in 1956 for contaminated liquid wastes from the chemical manufacturing operations of the Army and its lessee Shell Chemical Company
• Nigeria gully erosion crisis, since before 1980
• Exide lead contamination at seven locations in the United States, since 1989
• Electronic waste in Guiyu, since the 1990s
• 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump

Water

• Sandoz chemical spill, severely polluting the Rhine in 1986
• Selenium poisoning of wildlife due to farm runoff used to create Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge, and the artificial wetland
• The Jiyeh Power Station oil spill in the Mediterranean region
• Effects of polluted water in the Berkeley Pit in the United States
• Ignition and conflagration (13 times from 1868 to 1969) of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, United States
• Cheakamus River derailment which polluted a river with caustic soda
• Draining and development of the Everglades
• Loss of Louisiana Wetlands due to Mississippi River levees, saltwater intrusion through manmade channels, timber harvesting, subsidence, and hurricane damage.
• Lake Okeechobee is heavily polluted and during extreme events releases large volumes of polluted water into the St. Lucie River estuary and the Caloosahatchee River estuary.
• Amoco Cadiz oil spill off the coast of France in 1978
• Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes in the 1990s

Marine

• Coral bleaching
• Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone due to high-nutrient fertilizer runoff from the Midwest that is drained through the Mississippi River.
• The artificial Osborne Reef off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the United States
• Dumping of conventional and chemical munitions in Beaufort's Dyke, a sea trench between Northern Ireland and Scotland
• Marine debris
• Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef
• Nurdles, plastic pellet typically under 5mm in diameter
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• Minamata disease, mercury poisoning in Japan
• Mercury in fish
• Ocean acidification due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
• Industrial waste dumping in Central Vietnam from Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, which kills tons of marine creatures and destroys the ecosystem

See also: List of oil spills

• Millions of metric tons of plastic entering the ocean each year for decades due to China's attempt to recycle the world's plastic waste.[8]

 

[Hawk1981]

The first Earth Day was promoted in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Representative Pete McCloskey of California. The idea was to raise awareness about air and water pollution on college campuses. April 22 was the date chosen because it was midway between spring break and final exams and was likely to maximize student participation.

Shortly after the first Earth Day, the US created the Environmental Protection Agency and passed a number of landmark environmental laws including the National Environmental Education Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air Act.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The first Earth Day was promoted in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Representative Pete McCloskey of California. The idea was to raise awareness about air and water pollution on college campuses. April 22 was the date chosen because it was midway between spring break and final exams and was likely to maximize student participation.

Shortly after the first Earth Day, the US created the Environmental Protection Agency and passed a number of landmark environmental laws including the National Environmental Education Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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Perhaps you should sit quietly and re-consider why I chose that title to the thread.



It would aid you in concluding correctly to study the quotes I provided.


Here's a hint:
You are wrong about the reasons for the creation of 'Earth Day.'

 

[Hawk1981]

An interesting facet to the study of Lenin's work as a revolutionary is the large amount of time spent in reconciling the acceptance of Marxism and its applicability to peasant Russia, in which an industrial working class in the late 19th century was almost nonexistent. It was believed that Russia was immune to capitalism, owing to the circumstances of joint ownership of peasant land by the village commune.

It was accepted by some Russian Marxists that the revolution in Russia would have to pass through two discrete stages: first, a bourgeois revolution that would establish a democratic republic and full-blown capitalism; and second, a proletarian revolution after mature capitalism had generated a numerous proletariat that had attained a high level of political organization, socialist consciousness, and culture, enabling them to usher in full Socialism.

Lenin went a step beyond, arguing that capitalism was rapidly destroying the peasant commune. He claimed that the peasantry was in actuality rapidly stratifying into a well-off rural bourgeoisie, a middling peasantry, and an impoverished rural “proletariat and semi-proletariat.” In this last group, which comprised half the peasant population, Lenin found an ally for the extremely small industrial proletariat in Russia.