Today is Earth Day, as all of us good lefties, libs, enviros, and rads know.

Our friends on the right gently admonish us that injecting over six and half billion humans into an ecology, along with all of our toys, has no significant deleterious effect on the environment.

I wish I could believe their insane, self-serving fantasy.

I’m struggling with a rather humorless song this weekend, trying to keep it from sucking too awfully. Probably failing — and you’ll get to be the judge later tonight, unless I just abandon it.

I’m also finding myself contemplating what will happen when we hit the big tipping points in our destruction of the environment. Say, when all of the bees die, perhaps within the next year or so.

As a result of all of the above, I’m feeling a modicum of melancholia.

I figured I need an antidote for that, one that takes the more responsible longer environmental view.

So, how about Bill Bailey’s ‘Insect Nation‘?

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I feel better now.

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