For decades, every April 22nd, we’ve been subjected to Earth Day—a holiday rooted in the radical environmentalism of the 1970s, spearheaded by a man whose legacy is as troubling as the movement he championed. Ira Einhorn, the self-proclaimed founder of Earth Day, was no hero of the planet. He was a man convicted of a heinous crime: the murder of his former girlfriend, Holly Maddux. In 1977, Maddux vanished after visiting Einhorn’s Philadelphia apartment to retrieve her belongings. Weeks later, neighbors reported a foul odor emanating from his home. On March 28, 1979, police discovered Maddux’s decomposing body in a trunk in Einhorn’s closet. His chilling response to the discovery—“You found what you found”—revealed a callousness that should disqualify him from any pedestal.
It’s Earth Day. Never forget the co-founder of this day,…
