Planet Gore is not alone in “celebrating” Lenin’s birthday and the Malthusian effort to promote poverty around the planet that coincides with it.

Over on the homepage, don’t miss Jonah Goldberg on the EPA and CO2 regulation; Mark Hemingway on Discovery’s “Planet Green”; Duncan Currie on cap-and-trade; and Wesley J. Smith on Hollywood’s burgeoning anti-humanism.

And over on the Media Blog, Kevin Williamson recalls the charming history of Earth Day’s founder:

Given that Earth Day is basically a media festival, it’s always mysterious to me that so little press attention is given to the guy who started it, Ira Einhorn:
Environmentalist Loved Planet, Murdered Girlfriend
Great headline!
And I always forget this part:
Arlen Specter, currently Pennsylvania’s senior United States Senator, was Mr. Einhorn’s attorney. He managed to get the bail set at the unheard of amount of $40,000 for the suspected murderer. Only 10 percent was needed to free him. Barbara Bronfman, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, paid it.