Yesterday, madmen and poets (mostly madmen) turned out in legion for the People’s Climate March through Manhattan. Their goal was to leave their mark on future generations, who would look back and thank them for their campaign to save the planet.
They left their mark all right — but not on future generations so much as on their own. What these 300,000 lovers of planet Earth left in their wake was garbage, stretching as far and wide as the eye could see:
Litter left by the #PeopleClimateMarch. Their love for the earth is so real, they couldn’t even use a trash can. pic.twitter.com/uhB7JxBN8f
— C (@chelsea_elisa) September 21, 2014
In an article assessing the protesters’ “message,” the New York Post noted that David Kreutzer, a research fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, tweeted a similar photo:
MT: The #ClimateMarch is trashing & polluting NYC @vickikellar Pic of Trash;Somehow this doesnt seem too green 2me pic.twitter.com/zfIWvmFnWk
— Climate News (@ClimateNewsCA) September 21, 2014
“The hypocrisy varies from person to person,” Kreutzer told reporters. “The ones that fly in on private jets are the most hypocritical.”
But all protesters seemed to be united in their lust for litter:
The final irony is that the signs and placards the protesters carried ended up where they doubtless belonged in the first place:
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