The Canadian site Small Dead Animals does a thing every year on Earth Day, where they instead refer to it as "Civilization Day" by honoring advancements like petroleum energy, and recognizing how they are responsible for creating unprecedented prosperity and security.
I do find it amusing (on some days; infuriating on other days) how the Lefties have this automatic veneration for anything they claim is of Nature, or anything primitive and pre-modern. Who the hell are they kidding? They would last about 30 seconds in that sort of existence. Nature is about being red in tooth and claw. It's brutal. Who was it that said it, "there are no gentle deaths in Nature"?
That's the kind of stuff that convinces me, out of all the various idiocies we are forced to endure, the one common denominator is that they're all products of just how good a job our forebears did. The unprecedented prosperity, comfort, safety, and sustenance of this civilization has in turn produced a bunch of idle, expectant, entitled brats with far too much time on their hands to sit around and think of some new social crusade.
A whole lot of somebodies are in dire need of a warm glass of STFU. I just hope it happens when we can all see it.
