Sadly, todayโs Earth Day shares something with the current political environment: It reeks of divisiveness.
Earth Day has devolved into an occasion for environmental Cassandras to prophesy apocalypse, dish antitechnology dirt, and proselytize for a โwokeโ agenda. Passion and zeal routinely trump science, and provability takes a back seat to plausibility.
Many of those stumping for Earth Day on April 22 will oppose environment-friendly advances in science and technology, such as agricultural biotechnology, fracking, and nuclear power.
One of the event topics will be โregenerative agriculture,โ another favorite term of the environmentally โwoke.โ As Andrew Porterfield and Jon Entine of the Genetic Literacy Project have written, โitโs a lot like a rebranding of organic farming but with more grandiose claims โฆ Its supporters in the organic community make a multitude of immodest representations about what organic/regenerative agriculture can do, including โreversing global warmingโ and โending world hunger,โ along with preserving the worldโs topsoil.โ
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The reality is that it and its sibling, โagroecology,โ promote reliance on primitive, low-yielding agricultural techniques the use of which raises food prices and disadvantages the poor.
