The Green Tsunami: A Tidal Wave of Eco-Babble Drowning Us All Read Free

passionately to the crowd
in our nation’s capitol. Imagine my bewilderment when the Senator
began his speech with a warning that mass extinctions on the planet
were about to happen because of a coming environmental catastrophe. The Senator announced, “Doctor S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years 75% to 80% of all
the species of living animals will be extinct.”
Really? Smog was going to cause massive extinctions? The fate of
our planet would be decided by people who tossed cigarette butts out
of their car windows or “pop tops” in the sand at the beach? I was a
shocked and surprised counter-culturist!
The news coverage then moved to a huge Earth Day event on Fifth
Avenue in New York City. Here, a well-known biologist, Paul Ehrlich,
author of the best selling book “The Population Bomb”, was addressing the crowd. Ehrlich made no mention of “pop tops”, nothing
about cleaning up trash or keeping rivers and streams clean.
Instead he passionately expressed, “Populations will inevitably and
completely outstrip whatever small increase in food supplies we make.
The death rate will increase until at least 100 to 200 million people
per year will be starving to death in the next ten years.” Many years
later, Ehrlich wrote the foreword to Al Gore’s scary, environmental, blockbuster book, “Earth in the Balance”.
In 1970, Ken Watt was perhaps the best known and most respected
environmental activist of the era. Shortly after the first “Earth Day,
he made his “global environmental” claim that I think you will find
humorous. “The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years. If
present trends continue the world will be about 4 degrees cooler for
global mean temperatures in 1990, but 11 degrees colder in the year
2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an Ice Age.”
It turns out all those gloomy predictions at the 1970 “Earth Day”
were the genesis of the doomsday prophesies that continue today.
From Watt’s “Ice Age” to the latest prediction that “Global Warming”
caused by greenhouse gases trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere are
resulting in “Climate Change”, the list of imaginary disasters is continually perpetuated and yet to date, not one, has ever happened.
The television news coverage of America’s first “Earth Day” ended
and the networks returned to reporting about the ongoing Vietnam
War, the trial of the demonstrators who disrupted the Chicago
Democratic National Convention and the incredible news about
America’s brave Apollo 13 astronauts. The following day we arrived
at the radio studio to compare notes and agreed; the organizers of
“Earth Day” were obviously pursuing an agenda for this “new environmental movement” with national and international implications
most of us never imagined.
Enter the United Nations (U.N.). In 1971, within a year of the
first Earth Day, this organization picked up the environmental flag
and organized the first “International Earth Day”. “Pollution is an
international problem that requires an international solution”, they
claimed. After all, smoke from an industrial smoke stack in Mexico
doesn’t stop at the U.S. border. Once that smoke gets caught in the
jet-stream, it is capable of depositing pollution anywhere in the world.
The U.N. stressed that the nations of the world must join together
in the new global environmental movement to clean up the debris
of modern-day industrial pollution. And to accomplish that task, no
matter what the cost, everyone on this planet must cooperate.
So, we have collected a few of the first dots in our quest to discern how the simple celebration of the first “Earth Day” by America’s
counter culture evolved into the environmental agenda of today. Over
the past 40 plus years, there has been quite a metamorphosis.
Up until 2009, the United Nations had become the biggest promoter of the