Huffington Post: The passing of another Earth Day seems to have some pundits waxing nostalgic. One such pundit, Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker, wrote a glowing piece about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned out for the first Earth Day in 1970. He even went as far to say that the absence of grassroots action in today's environmental movement allowed Congress to sidestep climate legislation in 2009 and 2010.
The groundswell of support for the first Earth Day was indeed a potent force. It was the...