Earth Day
Since I was born a few days after the apparent invention of dirt, I was in high school during the first Earth Day. I may have been wearing Earth Shoes.
Gregg Easterbrook provides Earth Day In A Nutshell, a few quotes from which follow:
Readers of this space may have detected a certain haunting theme in my commentary on environmental issues. To recap: In the Western nations all environmental trends except greenhouse-gas accumulation are positive, but doomsayers and the media insist on pretending trends are negative, while conservatives refuse to admit that the reason trends are positive is that regulations work.
Read it all -- I cant' figure out how to quote the rest since it's all good.