Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.

Last year, I wrote a piece for Salon, “Let’s dump ‘Earth’ Day.” It was supposed to be mostly humorous. Or mostly serious. Anyway, the subject of renaming Earth Day has been on my mind for a year now — and all the more so today because the NYT magazine just published an interview with our Nobel-prize winning Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, in which he says:

I would say that from here on in, every day has to be Earth Day.

Well, duh!  Heck, we have a whole day just for the trees — and we haven’t finished them off … yet.  So if every day is Earth Day, than April 22 definitely needs a new name.  So I’m updating the column, with yet another idea at the end, at least for climate science advocates:

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Another exemplar of popular culture treatment of global warming:

Let’s file this under “not terribly helpful” and, like the vast majority of comic strips today, “not terribly funny.”

The IT and web design wizards at the Center for American Progress Action Fund are going to give Climate Progress the first real facelift in more than two years.  I am not a person who is particularly visual or expert on web design, so I welcome comments — though it must be said that this will not be a major rehab effort.

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