San Fran Painting The Town Green

With the pestering and pushing of mayor "Gay Marryin'" Gavin Newsom, San Francisco is hosting World Environment Day, the day the world celebrates instead of our Earth Day. Oh, it just sounds so cool ... and threatening ... as described by the UN:

Our agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future. World Environment Day is a people's event with colourful activities such as street rallies, bicycle parades, green concerts, essays and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, as well as recycling and clean-up campaigns.

UN-friendly greenies from all of the world will converge on the Bay City this Wednesday to talk and talk and talk about new ways to penalize activities they don't like, such as economic activity and human progress. They'll see a house made of scrap metal and a sculpture made of discarded chopsticks. The city's restaurants will join in the fun, adding organic specials to their menus, celebrating the fact that organic food cannot possibly feed the growing global population because it requires so much more land conversion than genetically altered, chemically protected food.

And then they'll all go home, feeling better. Meanwhile, the earth's abundant resources, the dynamic cleansing powers of nature, and the self-righting mechanisms of the free market will do more to "save the planet" than this celebration ever will.

Read a much rosier story about it in the LATimes.