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1:28

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1:31

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1:34

Earth Day. Al Gore and

1:36

Leonardo DiCaprio joined forces in

1:38

Washington Saturday, celebrating the 30th

1:40

anniversary of Earth Day. The

1:42

celebration was held amidst a rock

1:44

festival atmosphere, except there was no

1:46

rock, no festival, and as we all learned from

1:48

the speakers, no atmosphere. We

1:51

have to make the next 10

1:53

years the environment decade

1:55

in America and around the world. We

1:58

have to stand against the apologists

2:00

for pollution. Those who

2:02

believe in the old

2:04

politics of environmental irresponsibility. Inspiring

2:07

words. From a man

2:09

whose 1992 bestseller Earth and the Balance

2:11

now sits in landfills across the

2:13

country. The crowd was

2:15

also treated to the music of David

2:17

Crosby, who was then treated to the sound

2:19

of people heading over to the Smithsonian

2:22

to see Archie Bunker's chair. Leonardo

2:25

DiCaprio's much debated Bill Clinton interview also

2:27

aired this weekend. The president took Leo

2:30

on a tour of the dimly lit

2:32

and romantic White House. We

2:34

started a project here at the White House

2:36

called the Greening of the White House. Just by

2:38

changing the lighting in this whole building, we

2:40

lowered our electric bills by $100

2:42

,000 a year. Wow. After

2:48

blowing his wow -wad

2:50

early, DiCaprio

2:54

scoured his journalist handbook

2:56

further stinging retorts like, jeez,

2:59

and awesome. Can

3:02

a player get a table dance? The

3:08

day after Thanksgiving, you feel stuffed.

3:10

The day after Valentine's Day, loved or

3:13

angry. And the day after Earth

3:15

Day, you feel mildly embarrassed that you

3:17

forgot yesterday was Earth Day. Our

3:19

Sam B has another

3:21

take. Planet

3:23

Earth. We can't seem to

3:26

do enough for it. We

3:28

celebrate it. We even featured

3:30

Leo in an issue of Vanity

3:32

Fair about it. And for

3:34

all we do, how does Mother

3:36

Earth treat us? With

3:40

a human kill

3:43

rate of 100%. Mother

3:45

nature is one

3:47

ungrateful whore. Clearly,

3:57

the Earth hates our freedom.

3:59

But try telling that to the

4:01

blame humans first crowd. All

4:04

right, so here I am at

4:06

Earth Day talking to some stupid

4:08

hippie about some stupid food. The

4:11

Earth isn't doing anything bad. We're doing the

4:13

bad things to the Earth. We're

4:22

really psyched about this product. It's

4:24

new from Stonyfield. It comes

4:26

in several different flavors, strawberry, banana.

4:28

Should it taste like feet? I love Mother

4:31

Earth. Oh really? Yes I do. Well

4:33

when you suckled at your mother's teeth,

4:35

did molten hot lava pour out into your

4:37

mouth? We've got 5 %

4:39

of the population using 25 %

4:41

of the natural resources polluting

4:43

30 % of the earth

4:45

and so that's a failed

4:47

system. Do

4:50

you do push -ups? No I

4:52

don't. People come out and

4:54

we raise awareness and

4:56

we're being saved. To

5:00

win this war, we may need

5:02

science. So I met with NASA climatologist

5:04

Daven Schmidt to find out how

5:07

we can learn from our past mistakes.

5:09

I'm just an average person without

5:12

access to an earthquake ray

5:14

or a death star. How can

5:16

I join the fight against

5:18

Earth? I really couldn't

5:20

tell you. Statistically,

5:23

aren't Americans more likely to

5:25

get hit by lightning than

5:27

attacked by terrorists? I

5:29

think that's true. Then can we

5:31

afford not to have a war

5:33

on lightning? It'd

5:37

be difficult to do. That's

5:39

what they said about destroying the

5:41

ozone layer, but score one for

5:43

humans. Actually,

5:45

the ozone layer is well on its way to

5:47

recovery. Damn

5:49

it! Fortunately,

5:52

there is a way out. Today

5:54

I announce a new plan to

5:56

extend a human presence across our

5:58

solar system with human missions to

6:01

Mars and to worlds

6:03

beyond. Until

6:05

we can leave this box

6:07

behind, Americans will need to

6:09

make sacrifices. Even if that

6:11

means touring around the country in

6:13

a private jet, giving energy -guzzling

6:15

PowerPoint presentations on some stupid crap,

6:18

and releasing a movie about it. In

6:20

the end, we all have to

6:23

do what we can to make

6:25

the planet more livable. a

6:27

cool, warm spring day. It

6:30

has to be. We'll be right back. I

6:51

always tell it's Earth Day

6:53

when the CO2 emissions from the

6:55

world's smokestacks start pailing in

6:57

comparison to celebrity emissions, telling us

6:59

we can save the Earth

7:02

if we start acting a little

7:04

more like them. Just

7:06

ask Matt Damon, who

7:08

contributed this tip to Oprah

7:10

Winfrey's Earth Day special. I've

7:13

got a great one for you. If your

7:15

house is anything like mine... Stop. It's

7:22

not, it's a

7:24

lot smaller, and it doesn't

7:26

have an athletics -shaped dent

7:28

in the couch. Oprah

7:31

herself showed off her Earth

7:33

Day spirit by wearing a

7:35

sweater she accidentally washed with

7:37

her money, and giving away

7:39

Earth -friendly products to her

7:42

audience. We're going to bring

7:44

out the bulbs so you can have a look. Giveaway,

7:54

huh? You really

7:56

think that'll undo the environmental

7:58

damage caused by this? Over

8:10

on ABC 2020 both

8:12

documented and lived out mankind's

8:14

excess by flying reporters

8:17

to file live reports from

8:19

six of the seven

8:21

continents Every second

8:23

of every single day, thousands of

8:25

trees are being cut down. In fact,

8:27

in just the one minute that

8:29

I've been talking, an area

8:31

the size of 60 football fields

8:33

has been wiped out. Then

8:35

for God's sakes, stop

8:38

talking! Your name glather

8:40

is raping the earth. Host

8:43

Diane Sawyer talked to a

8:46

scientist from Antarctica and found

8:48

out it's cold there. You

8:51

can step outside for a few

8:53

seconds, but you certainly don't want to

8:55

stand around for a minute or

8:57

two. You get frostbitten very quickly at

9:00

these temperatures. So is your pole

9:02

thinning? I'll

9:05

tell you right now, if

9:07

I go through the trouble of

9:09

placing a satellite call just

9:11

to hear Diane Sawyer's voice, she

9:13

better not thin my pole. Still,

9:17

my favorite Earth Day

9:19

special had to be this.

9:21

Pimp My Ride, a show

9:24

devoted to creating the least efficient

9:26

vehicles in human history, has the

9:28

nerve to throw its own Earth

9:30

Day celebration on Sunday. You

9:32

probably want to ask, Matt Mike, are

9:35

there really any benefits to using biodiesel? Hell

9:37

yeah. This stuff reduces nasty

9:39

diesel emissions by almost 80%. It

9:41

ends as it rains, which I

9:44

personally love, because I hate that

9:46

shit. B -H! Gets

9:49

a shame cars don't run on

9:51

cognitive dissonance Any other final thoughts if

9:53

everybody used recycled tissue even you

9:55

would have millions of trees still on

9:57

the ground I just want you

9:59

to go now move to a cloth

10:02

bag use less gasoline There are

10:04

kind of little things that you can

10:06

do do something wonderful for your

10:08

life and get rid of this junk

10:10

So there you have it

10:12

advice on saving planet Earth

10:15

from a bunch of people

10:17

who couldn't even save Planet

10:19

Hollywood. Four

10:39

decades, children have been enchanted by

10:41

Dr. Seuss' silly tales from the cat

10:43

in the hat and Horton hears a

10:45

who to later stories like the Lorax.

10:47

I'll never forget the grim look

10:49

on his face when he heisted himself

10:51

and took leave of this mind. He's

10:53

holding his butt. He's

10:56

heisting himself by the seat of his

10:58

pants. He's holding his butt. But

11:01

Terry Burkett, a concerned mother of

11:03

two, says there's more to the Lorax

11:05

than meets the eye. The Lorax

11:07

is being used to present a very

11:09

preservationist point of view that we

11:12

are running out of trees. I had

11:14

no idea. Could the

11:16

warm and fuzzy Lorax actually

11:18

be a radical tree -hugger hell -bent

11:20

on destroying the wood products

11:22

industry? Birket says this is

11:24

yet another example of moneyed

11:26

special interest gone too far. There's

11:28

a lot of money in

11:31

the hands of environmental organizations. And

11:33

the wood products industry is basically

11:35

busy going to work every day, and

11:37

they have not had the money

11:39

to get their story out. Yes, with

11:41

only billions in revenue to work

11:43

with, mom and pop companies like Warehouser

11:45

and International Paper have been backed

11:47

into a corner. So Burkitt

11:50

drew on her experience as a

11:52

mother and as an assistant plant manager

11:54

for a wood flooring manufacturer. To

11:56

write a book that teaches children cutting

11:58

down trees makes the forest happy. She

12:00

called it Truex. People in the

12:02

wood products industry are environmentalists, and that's

12:04

what I try to get across

12:06

in Truex. Her book got picked

12:09

up by a boutique indie publisher

12:11

called the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association.

12:14

And with nearly half a million copies

12:16

in print, Truex is fast

12:18

replacing Lorax in classrooms

12:20

across America. I'm Truex

12:22

the logger. I harvest

12:25

these trees for ball bats

12:27

and houses and things

12:29

such as these. and

12:31

the kids love it. Biodiversity.

12:34

Will this still be there

12:36

when the trees have been sown?

12:39

But in any good wood products

12:41

curriculum, reading materials must be supplemented

12:43

with hands -on learning. Everything I'm showing

12:45

you today is waterproof, okay? It's

12:47

going to last your lifetime. It's an investment, but it lasts

12:50

your lifetime. Now, when you get

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Venetian blinds, you're to want to match

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the blinds to the flooring. You don't want

12:56

them to contrast, okay? And remember, the

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blinds match the floor. Say that. The blinds

13:00

match the floor. Kids seem

13:02

to really appreciate the wood products

13:04

industry. So why didn't Dr.

13:06

Seuss? I put that

13:08

question to a Seuss spokesman. So you

13:10

speak for the trees, correct? I

13:13

am the Lorax. I speak for

13:15

the trees. Well, I have a copy

13:17

of your most recent tax return. And it

13:19

seems to me you do more than just speak

13:21

for the trees. I'm also in

13:23

charge of the brown barbaloots. Who played in

13:25

the shade in their barbaloots suits? How

13:27

do you respond to allegations that you're just

13:29

a hired gun who will work for

13:31

any organization that will pay you? You're

13:40

nothing more than a two -bit

13:42

shill. Listen to me, you

13:44

motherf***er! I am the Lorax! I

13:46

don't have to answer these f***ing questions!

13:48

This interview's over! Where are you

13:50

going? This is f***ing bullshit! Who

13:53

else do you work for? Get away

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April 22nd was Earth Day.

16:23

And that, of course, oddly enough, April 22nd is the

16:25

day in 2012 on which the Earth will end.

16:28

You heard her here first. President

16:30

Bush marked the event by riding

16:32

his airborne SUV to Tennessee. to

16:35

visit the great Smoky Mountains,

16:37

ironically, our nation's most polluted national

16:39

park. But he wound up

16:41

stuck on the tarmac due to

16:43

a sudden burst of hail

16:45

and thunderstorms because the Earth hates

16:47

him so much. He hates

16:49

him. He's going mad.

16:54

But the president soldiered on

16:56

with a speech, making

16:58

a slight adjustment intense. In

17:01

the park, had I been there, I'd have reminded

17:03

people today's Earth Day. But

17:06

since I'm not there, let me

17:09

skip right ahead to talking about our

17:11

good friend, the high sulfur coal

17:13

plant. We

17:15

didn't create this earth, but we

17:17

have an obligation to protect it. One

17:19

of the interesting things about our

17:21

nation is that since 1970, the air

17:24

is cleaner and the water is

17:26

more pure, and we're using our land

17:28

better, and our economy has grown

17:30

a lot. And then

17:32

I showed up. The

17:39

whole thing went. Now,

17:43

if you didn't notice, majority leader Bill Frist

17:45

accompanied the president on the trip. Now,

17:47

I'm going to replace some of the tape.

17:49

Keep your eye on Senator Bill Frist

17:51

as the president speaks. We didn't

17:53

create this earth, but we have

17:55

an obligation to protect it. One of

17:57

the interesting things about our nation

17:59

is that since 1970, the air is

18:01

cleaner and the water is more

18:03

pure and we're using our land better.

18:21

I was not there. Obviously, I wasn't

18:23

there. And I was only watching this

18:25

on videotape, so I am not really

18:27

qualified to give a diagnosis. But it

18:29

seems to me that Bill Frist was

18:31

in a persistent vegetative state. I

18:33

don't know that to be serious. Of

18:35

course, the biggest, oh,

18:38

never give an audience candy. The

18:40

biggest environmental battle these days is

18:42

over the proposal to drill an

18:44

Alaska's Arctic national wildlife refuge. And

18:47

those opposed to it are mobilized.

18:49

And by mobilized, I mean armed

18:51

with morang. This weekend, in front

18:53

of the Capitol Ice Cream, moguls

18:55

Ben and Jerry created the world's

18:57

largest baked Alaska, presumably to raise

18:59

awareness about the on -wire legislation

19:01

now moving through Congress. So

19:03

there you have it. The state of

19:05

liberal opposition in this country, we're very angry.

19:08

Would anyone care for ice cream?

19:16

was the 36th annual Earth Day.

19:18

Who better to celebrate the

19:20

Earth than the man who owns

19:23

it? President George W. Bush

19:25

visited a clean energy research consortium

19:27

in Sacramento with a message

19:29

of hope. This nation does

19:31

not have to choose between a strong

19:33

economy and a clean environment. You'll get neither

19:35

in like it! Now

19:37

eat up and get out! Of

19:40

course, no Earth Day speech would

19:42

be complete without mentioning the administration's

19:44

favorite environmental pipe dream. I

19:46

believe that today's children

19:48

will one day take their

19:50

driver's test in a

19:52

hydrogen -powered pollution -free car. And

19:57

I believe teenagers will

19:59

borrow those hydrogen cars from

20:01

their future parents without

20:03

permission and stay out past

20:05

space curfew. Robo

20:10

-necking with their cyborg boyfriends. that

20:15

when I was on a bicycle. And

20:17

aside from the president, well, as best

20:19

we can tell, only one other place acknowledged

20:21

Earth Day, the Cartoon Network's

20:23

Boomerang Channel, which aired 13

20:26

lost episodes of the early

20:28

90s pro -environment cartoon Captain Planet

20:30

and the Planetiers. Gee,

20:40

why didn't that ever take off? Mommy,

20:46

I want to be the

20:48

superhero that tells us what our

20:50

house is made of. Don't

20:57

taunt me. And what

20:59

was Earth doing in the run

21:01

-up to Earth Day? Well, over the

21:03

last week, it gave us volcano

21:05

erupting in Peru, earthquakes in Tibet,

21:07

Indonesia, and Japan, freak tornadoes in America

21:09

and the Philippines, floods in Hungary,

21:11

Romania, Malaysia, and Kenya, wildfires in

21:13

Colorado, in a category five, super cyclone

21:15

about to destroy Darwin, Australia. You

21:20

know, Earth,

21:22

could you meet me over

21:24

at camera three, please? Hey,

21:29

Earth, how's it going? So

21:32

I guess kissing your ass doesn't work. We

21:35

call you beautiful, precious mother.

21:38

Gave you your own day. Just

21:40

like veterans and

21:43

groundhogs. Even

21:45

named you planet of the

21:47

year in 1988 even though

21:49

by any objective estimation that

21:51

was Neptune's year We tried

21:53

to make nice and what

21:55

do you do? Not only

21:58

do you kill us in

22:00

a thousand different ways, but

22:02

when we raise your temperature

22:04

just a degree one Little

22:06

degree you're all I got

22:08

news for you You ain't

22:11

the only rock in the

22:13

neighborhood. You know what I'm

22:15

saying? We got pictures. You see

22:17

the moon? Very nice. We've been there several times. You

22:19

know, they've already got a golf course. Then

22:22

there's Mars, a little red, a little

22:24

rocky. It's a perfect fixer -upper. We got

22:27

Titan, out by Saturn. Very similar atmosphere to

22:29

you. Other than it's

22:31

290 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

22:33

But we're working on space jackets.

22:37

We're through sucking up to you, home planet. You

22:39

want to fight? Bring it on, bitch. Because

22:41

at this moment, I am declaring

22:43

April 25th, f*** the Earth

22:45

Day. That's

22:48

right. What do we do

22:50

about that? That's

22:52

gonna be a day to

22:54

drive your half -mile -per -hour -gallon

22:56

-hum -skillade while spraying Aquanedit baby

22:58

seals. You know why? Because

23:01

we're not going out, baby. We're

23:07

not going out like the dinosaurs, my brother. Without

23:10

us, you're nothing but a billion

23:12

-year -old... self -sustaining, self -regulating, organic Eden

23:14

and complete harmony with itself. So

23:17

f*** you. The

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