by John Carney
Breitbart.com
Earth Day’s Disreputable History
Forget about Earth Day. We need an Inflation Day.
Earth Day got its start back in 1970 as a campus protest movement. The date of April 22 was selected because it came after Spring Break but far enough ahead of final exams that students and college faculties could be encouraged to participate.
The first Earth Day was organized by a young man named Denis Hayes at the behest of Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-WI), the former governor of Wisconsin who had defeated the Republican incumbent Alexander Wiley in the 1962 midterm election that saw Democrats pick up four Senate seats and keep control of the Senate. Nelson served three terms before being ousted in the 1980 election by a then-Congressman named Bob Kasten.