4/22 Open Thread: Earth Day

Earth Day! Wow! Bet there'll be a metric boatload of speechifying and posturing today, a half century later. So what happened in between? Mostly hippies, activists, and a handful of scientists "celebrating"; howling into the wind, mostly ignored and/or mocked. Now the bandwagon will be overloaded with talkers, most of whom will propose assorted "planning" and "research", like they should have 50 some odd years ago, but, most of whom have, during that period, pretty much done zip shit. In the near and not so near future, most of them...