Happy Earth Day, my friends! The flowers are blooming, the trees are lavishly adorned in foliage, the birds and squirrels and elephants and rhinoceroses are out, and Springtime is in the air. Breathe deeply of life! It is Earth Day!
Some people think that Earth Day exists that we might celebrate the natural beauty of the earth by planting trees and recycling. This is a fine thing to celebrate on any other day, but these people are wrong about Earth Day, as they have been fooled by an illusion. Earth Day is really a reminder that all earthly life is doomed. Specifically, Earth Day festivities revolve around the idea that humanity is responsible for expediting the inevitable demise of our planet, and that humanity the earth's only hope because humanity ruined everything in the first place. The children plant trees saying, "O tree! You are my moral superior, for I shall be the death of the earth, but you will let it linger a bit longer!"
Humanity is wrong about being solely responsible for the waning of the earth. Our universe is entropic, so the existing order is bound for chaos and death if allowed to continue to that end, which is heat death. It is inherent in the nature of this fallen existence that things decline and die, and the earth itself is no exception. It is almost as if humanity thinks that the earth is its home, but that would also be wrong. There is more to reality than life on earth.
The celebration of decay by the entropic curse on this universe which is Earth Day is no fun, then. That poor, fictitious child planting the tree! When we plant trees on Earth Day, we shall celebrate the beauty of the natural world, yes? We plant a tree saying, "Our fleeting glimpses of Creation speak of life and wonder far beyond all this!" That is what must Earth Day must be, regardless of what it is. I am going out to ride an elephant now.
I am sorry. I had intended for this to be sillier.
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I posted something along these lines just a few minutes ago. However, I chose a different reason to criticize Earth Day.
I was a real child who planted a tree on Earth Day. Or maybe it was Arbor Day. I don't remember. That was eleven years and two houses ago. It's quite a lovely Norwegian spruce sapling to this day.
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