Earth Day: How Environmentalists Hurt the Environment
"Earth Day" was first observed on April 22, 1970, signaling the birth of the modern environmental movement. According to the Earth Day Network, the original "Earth Day" brought to life by Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, caused 20 million Americans to come out across the nation and demonstrate for a sustainable, clean environment.
The so-called green movement has gathered ever increasing steam with each passing year, morphing from clean air and clean water to global warming to climate change described by one N.Y. Times reporter as "the most significant scientific and technological challenge of our time." (Eduardo Porter, "Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Promises on Climate Change," New York Times April 19, 2016).
Many advocates for drastic measures to combat climate change (i.e., global warming) assert that human caused global warming is now "settled science."...