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April 22nd, 2008

Happy Earth Day!

By College Libertarians - John Payne on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm

So in case you hadn’t noticed, today is Earth Day.  It’s not a holiday I really make a point of celebrating, but I had a couple of enviromental related points to make and this provides as good an opportunity as I’m going to get for a while.

First, did anyone else catch some of that Captain Planet marathon on Boomerang on Saturday?  Holy shit, I had totally forgotten how hilariously bad that show was!  The theme song was adequate reason for that show to be locked in a permanently sealed vault fully equipped with Ark of the Covenant style spirits to ensure that no one ever inflicts that show upon humanity,  but that’s not even the half of it.  The absolute most vexing part for me is that the villains on the show polluted for absolutely no reason.  They weren’t even crude caricatures of industrialists whose gross negligence in pursuing profit led to oil spills or something of that sort.  No, they were just pure evil, ruining the planet just for kicks.  But really, what more can you expect from a show created by Ted Turner and that has Whoopi Goldberg voicing Gaia?

Second, has anyone else seen the two We Can Solve It ads about global warming featuring, respectively, Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson?  If you haven’t, the gist is that although Pelosi and Gingrich or Sharpton and Robertson disagree on almost everything, they do agree that we need to do more to stop global warming.  Am I the only one who thinks this is incredibly bad marketing.  I mean, I think global warming could be a very serious problem (that being said, we need to make sure our solution isn’t worse than the problem itself–see ethanol), but when I hear that Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson agree on anything it makes me inclined to reject it in the strongest possible terms.   That may just be me, but I doubt it.

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