Happy Earth Day: We're Screwed

Forty years after the first Earth Day and we can’t even get a consensus in our major media outlets that the planet might actually have catastrophic environmental problems worthy of attention. The L.A. Times says it’s time to panic, the Washington Post says forty years in, we’re losing. The New York Times apparently isn’t into dire prognostication and instead runs a photo essay on Jersey trash art. The Wall Street Journal says Earth Day is