John Stossel   Even the Bush administration had an Earth Day
website, which stated, "< a href="http://earthday.gov/">Earth
Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet".
Watching the media coverage, you'd think that the earth was in
imminent danger -- that human life itself was on the verge of
extinction. Technology is fingered as the perp.  Nothing could
be further from the truth.  John Semmens of Arizona's Laissez
Faire Institute points out that Earth Day misses an important
point. In the April issue of The Freeman magazine, Semmens says
the environmental movement overlooks how hospitable the earth
has become -- thanks to technology. "The environmental alarmists
have it backwards. If anything imperils the earth it is ignorant
obstruction of science and progress. ... That technology
provides the best option for serving human wants and conserving
the environment should be evident in the progress made in
environmental improvement in the United States. Virtually every
measure shows that pollution i