By GI Korea on April 22nd, 2011 at 2:29 pm

Picture of the Day: Happy Gaia Day

» by GI Korea in: Environment

Children touch an image of the Earth projected on a screen yesterday at the National Science Museum in Daejeon. The museum held several events to mark Earth Day on April 22. By Kim Seong-tae

Via the Joong Ang Ilbo.

Tags: Environment, Korea

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setnaffa
10:20 am on April 22nd, 2011 1
This year Earth Day landed on the same day as Good Friday. Which one of these holidays will get more coverage in the media? Ok, don't answer that. Earth Day is already off to a head start as kids are being indoctrinated and forced to sing songs about keeping the Earth 'wild' for the future of 'great- grandchild' among other ridiculous chants, including encouraging kids to boycott big businesses. Maybe they'll start with Apple, who was just named 'least green' tech company (even though Al Gore sits on the board).
Retired GI
10:28 am on April 22nd, 2011 2
#1
kushibo
11:26 am on April 22nd, 2011 3
But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. (Job 12:7-10)
Teadrinker
12:08 pm on April 22nd, 2011 4
#3,

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

St. Francis of Assisi
vince
12:24 pm on April 22nd, 2011 5
Can't we abort some of these creatures? They'll only grow up in a cruel existence, in a world on the brink of destruction by man.
kushibo
12:29 pm on April 22nd, 2011 6
Notice how Korea is at the center top of the picture. What geocentrism!
Teadrinker
12:38 pm on April 22nd, 2011 7
#6,

You're seeing too much into this since Japan is at the centre.
kushibo
12:39 pm on April 22nd, 2011 8
Japan is at the center only if you're looking at a map circa 1942.
ChickenHead
1:44 pm on April 22nd, 2011 9
Japan just happens to be covered by a Japan-shaped cloud.

That is very cute… kinda like King Kong's island… or, maybe, there was no geo-revisionist intent on Korea's part and it is just a big radioactive emission from Fukushima.

Teadrinker… boy am I glad to see you. I was getting worried you had been busted for smoking pot or picked up for molesting your students or something.

I know how important the environment is to you and there is a Global Warming thread that is almost calling your name… so your lack of input sure had me worried. Fortunately, I found you here posting on an environmental topic so I know you are O.K.

Anyhoos, here is the link so you won't feel left out of the conversation.

http://rokdrop.com/2011/04/13/how-many-carbon-off…
Leon LaPorte
3:39 pm on April 22nd, 2011 10
EARTH DAY™

You should have seen the propaganda posters which the children were forced to create at the Camp Casey PX. It was stomach churning. They have these kids convinced that using a trash bag will destroy the earth. Americans are evil. Capitalism is evil, etc, etc ad infinium….

/sick shiat.
Teadrinker
5:03 pm on April 22nd, 2011 11
#8,

You're right. I misread the map and mistook Cambodia for South Korea.
Teadrinker
5:23 pm on April 22nd, 2011 12
"Teadrinker… boy am I glad to see you. I was getting worried you had been busted for smoking pot or picked up for molesting your students or something."

Oh, you. Such a joker. In fact, I'm busy preparing to meet a couple of heads of state and other representatives of foreign governments soon (no BS). Unlike some people, I don't need to trash perfect strangers on the internet on a regular basis in order to get personal validation.
Leon LaPorte
9:15 pm on April 22nd, 2011 13
Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend. How will you celebrate Earth Day?

Ira Einhorn preached against Vietnam War and violence, but had dark side

Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the "composted" body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.

A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and '70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia’s head hippie. With his long beard and gap-toothed smile, Einhorn — who nicknamed himself "Unicorn" because his German-Jewish last name translates to "one horn" —advocated flower power, peace and free love to his fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. He also claimed to have helped found Earth Day.

But the charismatic spokesman who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and preached against the Vietnam War — and any violence — had a secret dark side. When his girlfriend of five years, Helen "Holly" Maddux, moved to New York and broke up with him, Einhorn threatened that he would throw her left-behind personal belongings onto the street if she didn't come back to pick them up.

And so on Sept. 9, 1977, Maddux went back to the apartment that she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia to collect her things, and was never seen again. When Philadelphia police questioned Einhorn about her mysterious disappearance several weeks later, he claimed that she had gone out to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts and never returned.

It wasn't until 18 months later that investigators searched Einhorn's apartment after one of his neighbors complained that a reddish-brown, foul-smelling liquid was leaking from the ceiling directly below Einhorn's bedroom closet. Inside the closet, police found Maddux's beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk that had also been packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers.

After his arrest, Einhorn jumped bail and spent decades evading authorities by hiding out in Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and France. After 23 years, he was finally extradited to the United States from France and put on trial. Taking the stand in his own defense, Einhorn claimed that his ex-girlfriend had been killed by CIA agents who framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal military research. He was convicted of murdering Maddux and is currently serving a life sentence.

Although Einhorn was only the master of ceremonies at the first Earth Day event, he maintains that Earth Day was his idea and that he's responsible for launching it. Understandably, Earth Day's organizers have distanced themselves from his name, citing Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist and former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator who died in 2005, as Earth Day's official founder and organizer.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day in the spring of 1970 as a way to bring national awareness to the fact that, at the time, there were no legal or regulatory mechanisms in place to protect the environment. About 20 million participants at various Earth Day events across the U.S. made Earth Day a success, and in December of 1970, Congress authorized the creation of a new federal agency to tackle environmental issues — the EPA.
Teadrinker
9:43 pm on April 22nd, 2011 14
#13,

Gee, maybe I'll go burn some tires, dump a few bags of fertilizer in a river, and buy some endangered species on the black market to make myself a celebratory hamburger…On second thought, I'll just laugh at you for thinking that you could sway anyone with an association fallacy.