Here's an eye-opening special on VBS TV about plastic in the ocean: Garbage Island

Anyway, today is Earth Day. But, the earth doesn't need our help; it's just a planet. Now life on earth is what's in danger. As George Carlin said, "The planet if fine, it's the people that are fucked!"
Why not call it "Life Day"? After all, most of the things "good" for the environment also help life on earth.
Humans need food, water, and air to live, and pollution contaminates all three. Diseases and cancer result.

Suppose I were to offer the world a new natural resource that costs roughly the same as oil, requires some fossil fuels to create and has the exact same effect on the environment as oil. This resource will run out in 250 years or so, similar to the life span of oil. Functionally, I am proposing a replenishment of worldwide oil supply. Would we as a society accept this offer? Have we moved beyond the scare of a diminished oil supply, characteristic of the 1970’s? I believe that the world, at least the west, now evaluates energy on innovative metrics of environmental sustainability.

Wind and solar power are often touted as the Metamucil of American energy consumption. However complete sustainability derived from wind power and solar power is largely a hoax without an integrated power system. The problem is that wind isn’t always blowing and the sun isn’t always shining. Constant streams of energy are necessary to meat constant demand. The benefit is only marginal because, when the wind blows slightly less, more fossil fuels are burned. Ultimately, the more we rely on uncertain sources of energy the more uncertainty is priced into electricity.

Unfourtunately, nuclear power is associated with some vague cataclysimc, chenobyl on crack, end of world scenario. THe mushmroom cloud is assocaited with nuclear power plants. This regretable phantasm agitates globabl warming and decreases energy independence.

As I was perusing Facebook, I came across an absurd group: "Cage Free Eggs at Harvard". Its not my intention to lambaste the iconoclastic, self righteous student movements. But boy are they an easy target. The group details a letter written to the Harvard University Dining Services opposed to caged chickens. The letter outlines two platitude inflated arguments
(1) Caging chickens is incredibly inhumane
(2) The density of caged chickens hurts the environment.

In response to "argument" 1: