First there is this headline I've been seeing all day, wrongly assuming it was from the Onion: Earth Day leader killed, composted girlfriend.
I was going to remark at least he was consistent and composted, but when I finally clicked through, I found to my horror:
Inside the closet, police found Maddux's beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk that had also been packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers.Styrofoam and air fresheners? Those take much longer to biodegrade than the poor girlfriend.
And treat yourself to 13 Worst Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970, including these gems:
"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation" --Denis Hayes, Earth day organizer
The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age." — Kenneth Watt
