Earth Day 2026: “Our Power, Our PlanetTM, Our Propaganda” Redux

Like a dying star imploding after running out of fuel for fusion, the promoters of Earth Day — the central religious holiday of the environmental left — find themselves so bereft of ideas that they have recycled (!) their theme from a year ago: “Our Power, Our PlanetTM.”

As I noted last year, the trademark touch is fatuous: Who would bother plagiarizing something so infantile? But never mind. I pointed out also that the addition of “Our Propaganda” would create a theme vastly more honest, in that every argument promoted last year was unadulterated leftist agitprop, and the direct connection to Soviet political strategy is obvious, as Earth Day falls on Lenin’s birthday, amusingly enough. The 2025 Earth Day exhortation was a tripling of global renewable electricity generation by 2030, a preposterous goal worthy of Soviet central planning (“The Five-Year Plan in Four Years!”), and as Pravda used to put it, the parallels ideological and idiotic between the Earth Day themes and the Soviet slogans — “2+2=5” — are no accident, Comrade.

Back to propaganda: The Earth Day production of it is cheap and reliable, unlike electricity from wind and solar facilities. Consider the Earth Day “50 Ways to Make a Difference,” a series of “small actions” ranging from the absurd to the zany for people with far too much time on their hands. We are supposed to “share climate facts on social media,” the first of which are the horrors of plastics; in various evil incarnations they are disposable, single-use, lurking in the oceans and drinking water, and threatening to human health. This too is an exercise in recycling, as the 2024 Earth Day theme was “Planet vs Plastics.”

Apart from the fact that none of this has anything to do with “climate facts,” one would think that this horror parade would have made life on earth ever more sickly, disease-ridden, and short. And one would be wrong: human life expectancy at birth now is 73.49 years, an increase of over 61% from the life expectancy of 45.51 years in 1950. For more on the absurdities of the crusade against plastics, see my 2024 Earth Day column.