The privilege to do right

Matthew Arnold Stern
3 min readApr 21, 2022
Part of our solar panels

It’s Earth Day when we’re all exhorted to “save the planet.” But as George Carlin pointed out long ago, it’s not the earth that needs saving. Humanity does. We need to keep the planet habitable for ourselves. That’s the real reason we’re concerned about the environment — and we get frustrated by those who aren’t. Why do people believe climate-change deniers or consider the Green New Deal communism and wokeness wrapped in a 80% post-consumer…

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Matthew Arnold Stern

A novelist and award-winning public speaker and technical writer. My novels Amiga and The Remainders are available now.