Earth Day is a day of doom April 22, 2024
It’s Earth Day.
The tree huggers are out in mass, looking to ban this or
that.
I talked to someone who lost her job earlier this year and
just got a notice of eviction, only she can’t afford the massive spike in rents
that are taking place.
I wish tree huggers worried more about driving poor people
out onto the street than they do about whether or not I can use a 100 watt
light bulb.
Everything action they take makes it impossible for ordinary
people to survive today, in the pretense that the world will come to an end if
we don’t stop doing all those things we need to do to get by today.
Nobody can afford to rent these days, unless they are
already rich; nobody can afford to buy a house because they can’t put together
the down payment even if banks wanted to lend them money when banks only lend
to the wealthy.
For all we hear about diversity and inclusion, working poor
are being excluded from everything, and it is always the same people who are
doing it, pretending like they are doing it for noble causes.
The president this week is banning more things that he
alleges causes climate change, making tree huggers happy and rich green
companies richer, and apartments even less affordable than they had been.
The woman who faces eviction next month had two jobs, and
still couldn’t keep up with economy, Biden making food affordable, while
mandating that people buy electric cars when they can’t even afford to operate
the gasoline-driven ones they already drive.
Each step towards saving the environment seems dedicated to
driving working people into an early grave, or onto the street, so that we here
in this part of the country may soon see lines of those blue tents typical in
places like Hollywood.
This is Earth Day. This is a day when we ought to be
celebrating life, but seem only dedicated to dictating how other people should
live.
I should be grateful. I have not been homeless in decades. I
have not gone hungry, have not had to worry about keeping my cold water flat
warm, not had to worry about having my utilities shut off or being evicted,
when many of those I know do.
Only not the tree huggers. For some reason, they seem
immune. They live in warm homes they can afford, and have incomes (most likely
from government contracts and grants) that allow them to thrive, while at the
same time, telling the rest of us how we ought to live, how we should listen to
their warnings of doom, when in fact, all they are doing it contributing to
global climate change with the constant hot air they emit when they preach at
us.
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