Ford: Celebrity 'stunt' hijacks seriousness of Earth Day |
Another year’s Earth Day came and went last week. It passed with little public fanfare, something like Doughnut Day, marked on the first Friday of June.
My favourite is Pi Day, observed on March 14. Math nerds get to gloat when they explain Pi Day is 3/14, or the closest most of us get to remembering pi and its never-ending numbers. It has been calculated into the trillions.
Personally, I eat pie while rereading Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. No real association — the boy, Pi, was named after the French word for swimming pool — piscine.
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Such days come and go without much attention unless greeting card companies have cottoned on to it, such as Mother’s Day.
But Earth Day is different. It is usually awash in sombre opinions and analysis, and as each year passes it gets more serious. Only the numb of heart and weak of brain fail to recognize that our world is changing. Fire, floods and landslides across Canada have joined the Four Horsemen — Conquest,........