Welcome to politics by faith.

Thanks for being a happy Earth Day.

It feels like Earth Day is not really a big deal anymore.

I didn't really anything about it leading up to it.

I'm not going to spend time here talking about the founder of Earth Day.

And we murdered his girlfriend, stopped her in a trunk in his closet for about 18 months before the neighbors started to notice.

Not going to do that here.

Doesn't seem appropriate or necessary or edifying.

On my San Diego show for the last maybe 15 years, we've done an Earth Day tradition.

And that is to share the story about how you should

not recycle. Recycling is a giant waste of time, money, and energy. It actually hurts the planet,

and you should immediately stop doing it. We also, over the years have thrown in there a little more

about how the Great Barrier Reef is not dying, it's not being bleached, and there's no such

thing as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

And generally, all these things together speak to a larger hysteria that people like to have.

They cling to things.

And there's a conversation here about the concentric circles, how conservatives, their concentric

circles, they start in the middle with the person, the self, and then family,

community, nation, world. And liberals, progressives start from the outside. They start from

the world and then work their way in, if possible to get to the middle. Conservatives start

from the middle and work their way out. I think that's a better way of ordering everything,

starting with yourself and then working out.

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