"The Left invented Earth Day as a tool for their ideology. One of the self-identified 'founders' of Earth Day, Bay Area activist John McConnell, has written that in 1969 he proposed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a new holiday to be called Earth Day on the first day of spring, the Equinox, around March 21.

"But, he wrote, in 1970 local anti-Vietnam War and Environmental Teach-in activists 'who were planning a one-time event for April 22, also decided to call their event Earth Day.'

"And what was this unnamed 'one-time event' in 1970? It was the 100th birthday celebration for Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to history as Lenin..."