Serial: Earth Day - Environmentalism's Origins

The most important day of the entire year is upon us — Earth Day on April 22nd. It’s a day in which environmentalists will overlook and dismiss earth’s inhabitants and literally choose to celebrate the dirt beneath our feet. Earth Day isn’t really about picking trash in your local park or remember…

Serial: Earth Day - The Population Bomb

Earth Day will be celebrated by more than a billion people, making it the largest secular observance in the world. How did this singular day and its ideas become so engrained in society? In an ironic twist of fate, books — those strange, obsolete things made from the destruction of trees — have a l…

Serial: Earth Day - The First

Two years after professor Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, he was invited to speak at the first Earth Day in the United States where he shared his doomsday vision of an overpopulated planet with a free-spirited and bell-bottomed-clad congregation. The dark rhetoric profoundly contrasted …

Serial: Earth Day - The Biggest Hoax of All Time

The impending ice age foreshadowed by scientists, politicians and hippies on the first Earth Day in 1970 never actually came to fruition. If you haven’t noticed, our planet is not completely frozen over, and we don’t currently live in igloos. But the failed predictions made about global cooling in …