I actually ran across a post from someone a few days back trotting out the "The first Earth Day was chosen because it was Lenin's birthday because environmentalists are all commie dictator atheist scumbags" meme.
At the time, I just rolled my eyes and moved on. I really should have taken a few minutes to do some digging into it. Fortunately, Ed Darrell already has (repeatedly, each year).
(My favorite pareidoliac counter: it was also St Francis of Assisi's birthday, too, who's a far more appropriate associate of Earth Day, though that's just a coincidence, too.)
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Earth Day honors Earth, our majestic home — not Lenin (2012 version)
This is mostly an encore post — sad that it needs repeating. You could write it off to pareidolia, once. Like faces in clouds, some people claimed to see a link. The first Earth Day, on April…
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