Earth Day is Lenin's Birthday
I’m sure it’s all a coincidence.
Earth Day would be a great idea if it had anything to do with the Earth. I’m sure it did for some and still may, but the day and its motivation may forever struggle to escape an inconvenient coincidence.
That’s what they call it. Snopes and other would-be fact-checkers who get things wrong just as often as anyone else say it’s not so. It is an accident of history that a bunch of Climate Marxists picked the 100th Birthday of Russian Revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin for … Save the Planet Day.
All I can say is, ‘Hey, be careful you don’t cut yourself with Occam’s Razor.’ Well, that’s not all I could say.
Early Days
At the beginning of what has become a Climate Cult, it was no secret that it was powered by self-enlightened lefties who recruited acolytes from college campuses under the premise that they opposed corporate pollution.
There was pollution, no doubt about it. I grew up an hour from Love Canal (Niagara Falls, NY). When I attended the University of Buffalo a few years later, the locals used to point out how the sunsets weren’t as pretty since they’d shut down Hooker Chemical.
My home County (Monroe), where you’ll find Rochester, was home to Kodak, Xerox, and a few other industry giants, some of whom are not so big anymore (these days, Rochester, NY, is something like what you’d find swirling in a toilet near the completion of the flush). So we had our share of what would one day be called Superfund sites—places where years of “progress” were at odds with public health and safety.
It was all over the country, creating an opportunity in the late 60s and early 70s to leverage those indiscretions to advance other priorities.
Most environmental economists of the time believed that only socialist countries would ably protect the environment, because the governments there were acting for the good of all mankind, while capitalists in the West cared only about profit maximization and not a whit about the environment. Thus, it was no surprise that the conventional wisdom would turn a generation of young people towards socialism as the only way to protect the Earth.
This idea arose for a number of reasons, but primarily because pollution and environmental degradation first became a visible problem in the capitalist West, where the Industrial Revolution had begun. Most critics of the free market, whether Marxists or modern environmentalists, claimed that environmental degradation was an inherent and inescapable problems of a system of production for profit and of private ownership.
While I was familiar with the fascist affectation of environmentalism (Hitler loved it), I’d not previously known (though I should have) that “pollution and environmental degradation were “outlawed” in the constitutions of most communist countries.”
An affectation. The truth, when it escaped, painted an inconveninet truth. Communist societies were not just repressive but dirty. A fact not even the predecessors of Snopes - not for lack of trying - could hide.
No - thinking or acting “green” does not make you a Nazi or a militant Commie (remember, they fought for the same followers), but the relationship between an obsession with control and behavior associated with both, might.
These days, Marxists talk about how the West needs to go green or else, which is a bit of a giveaway. Not as much a giveaway as its leading lights admitting (over and over) that the Climate Change agenda is about economic or cultural Marxism.
The UN IPCC’s Dr. Ottar Endenhofer: “… the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.”
We (UN-IPCC) redistribute de facto the worlds wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.
AOC’s first Chief of Staff (Saikat Chakrabarti) and author of ‘her’ Green New Deal: “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
Former chairman of the IPCC, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, “clearly spelled out that aim. Ms. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change until last year, openly stated that it was not about climate but that, for the first time, it gave them the tools to replace capitalism.”
The leadership at Climate Strike: “the manifesto is explicit that we should condemn corporations and embrace “non-market approaches …(with) a strong focus on the rights of women, youth and indigenous peoples.”
Extinction Rebellion Founder, Stuart Basden: “Euro-Americans violently imposed and taught dangerous delusions that they used to justify the exploitation and reinforced our dominance, while silencing worldviews that differed or challenged them.”
Climate Muppet Greta Thunberg: “… the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.
That’s a lot of economic and cultural Marxism for the ideological descendants of a movement that stumbled on April 22 by mistake.
Political Descendents Too!
It is also a complete accident that the political party most aligned with or pointed toward central planning and command-and-control economics also happens to be the biggest advocate (and funder, with other people’s money) of green agendas, products, and projects—whose carbon life-cycle are anything but “green.”
Progressive ideas about Earth Day and the environment share common themes: You need to sacrifice more (you, not them).
Projects that no one would support if free to choose are funded by force through taxation (the government picks winners and losers).
They make resources the political left wants you to use less of, less often, more expensive (priced out to ‘save the planet’).
And no one is allowed to talk about how dirty those “alternatives” really are or all the ecosystems destroyed in their pursuit (rare earth metal mining, processing, etc.).
Before the Iron Curtain fell, Lenin, Stalin, and those who followed hid their dirty little secrets. Today, Communist China flaunts it openly as it does in every nation where socialism takes hold (because you can’t hide it from satellites).
So, the government that those Climateers need to help save the planet will actually make it dirtier, more dangerous, and a lot less healthy than Free Market Capitalism ever was.
And Earth Day is Lenin’s Birthday. I’m sure it’s all a coincidence.