Gaia’s Greenwashed Drama: Earth Day’s Greatest Hits of Hypocrisy
By Jenifer Rae
“What are we Gonna Do?” by Dramarama
“It’s April 21st and everybody knows today is Earth Day
Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday to whoever’s being born
And now I’m trying hard to think of something
meaningful and worthy, kind of earthy
to make everybody ask themselves just…
What are we doing here? And what are we doing to ‘her’…I don’t’ know…
2041, the world is gonna end, I’ve got the message
from a tiny little man who only said that he’d been sent
I’m not a protest singer, I can’t write a song to send a message
but it seems to me that this message needed to be sent…
What are we doing here? I don’t know…What are we gonna do…”
In 1991, alt-rockers Dramarama dropped their oddly timed Earth Day anthem “What Are We Gonna Do?”—on April 21st. Not April 22nd. As the Gen X’ers and MTV viewers watched frontman John Easdale giggle and blush through a TV interview, it was clear: either they didn’t know what Earth Day was… or they knew exactly what they were doing.
The lyrics? Kind of silly. The message? Confused. The timing? Off by a day…
…but maybe that blunder was the point.
Maybe it was a subtle jab at the absurdity of the celebration itself. Or maybe it was just a half-hearted stab at activism before returning to the comfort of commercial success. Either way, that moment now stands as a perfect snapshot of America’s wobbly relationship with Earth Day—part performance, part penance…all posturing.
And here we are again.
In the coming hours, your feed will light up with recycled memes, filtered reels, and guilt-drenched hashtags. The same people who flew cross-country last weekend for brunch will scold you for using a plastic straw. Celebrities will virtue-signal from private jets. Tech companies will urge you to unplug—via energy-sucking push notifications.
You are being asked to feel guilty for living in the modern world. For using water, heat, transportation, and air conditioning. The same conveniences Earth Day’s loudest voices enjoy daily! And if you happen to live in California? Don’t be shocked if Gavin Newsom stages another one-man blackout to “save energy”—only to trigger a grid reboot that guzzles 50 times more power.
Oh, the irony. Oh, the waste.
But beneath the memes and mood lighting, what is Earth Day really about?
Here at The Plain Truth, we’ve covered this for years. If you’ve followed our series Why We Do What We Do, you know we believe Earth Day is more than tree-planting and turtle-hugging. It is a guilt ritual. A soft form of submission. It is environmentalism, sure—but more importantly, it is virtue as control. In simpler terms: Earth Day is communism in a biodegradable wrapper.
The roots go deep. Earth Day’s co-founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson, was a devout environmentalist with an appetite for regulatory overreach. The other co-founder, Ira Einhorn, later became infamous for murdering his girlfriend and stuffing her in a trunk. No, really. These are the high priests of the modern green religion.
And yes, Earth Day is also steeped in paganism. This isn’t conspiracy theory—it’s right there in the symbolism.
Earth as a deity.
Gaia, the ancestral mother of all life. Worship the planet. Blame mankind. Flagellate yourself with carbon credits.
So today, while the world celebrates the earth, remember you are not saving the planet. You are in fact starring in a very old morality play—one where guilt is gospel, virtue is vanity, and the curtain never really falls.
In closing, Dramarama may forever get the date wrong—but once you understand the true origins of Earth Day, you’ll know what it is really about and be able to stand in truth. As followers of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we are called to avoid pagan practices. And as Americans living in a Republic, we should never embrace anything rooted in communism—yet sadly, we often do.
So, what do we do now? We seek the truth behind our actions, and we choose to live with gratitude—being faithful stewards of everything God has blessed us with, every single day.
Here are some great reads The Plain Truth has published in the past:
The Naked Communism of Earth Day
It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism.
Earth Day is naked communism.
To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind.
The Earth does not demand a moral code of personal behavior. Indeed, the lesson it teaches is “the survival of the fittest “and an indifference to suffering. The “natural events” mankind fears most all involve the potential for significant loss of life and for injury.
The Earth is a beautiful place, but it is utterly merciless. Man has learned to adapt to it and, by adapt, I mean to use its resources to build shelter and protection from it, to plant and harvest crops from it, and to domesticate some of its species while hunting and fishing for others for food.
Earth Day postulates that man is the cause of harm to Earth by virtue of his cities, his highways, his use of its sources of energy, and even the garbage that results from the normal course of maintaining life. Continue Reading>>>>
Earth Day’s Real Leninist History
On April 22, 1970, a trio of radical dreamers rolled out the first Earth Day. Their hope was that the well-planned, nationwide event would effectively assault capitalism, free markets and mankind.
The initial concept was conceived by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis. Nelson was Congress’ first environmentalist activist. He was also the mastermind behind those radical public school “teach-ins” that were vogue throughout the ’60s and ’70s. During the teach-ins, mutinous schoolteachers would scrap the day’s assigned curriculum, pressure their students to sit cross-legged on the floor, “rap” about how America was an imperialist nation and converse about why communism really wasn’t such a bad form of government – it just needed to be implemented properly. Continue Reading>>>>