Better Off Friday

One question:

If Earth Day is intended to highlight man's responsibilities towards his environment, do you think the earth more appreciated the actions of man this last Thursday, Earth Day, compared to California's Furlough Friday?

I commuted by bicycle yesterday during our Furlough Friday here in Elk Grove/Sacramento, alongside a substantial reduction in vehicular traffic. Shouldn't this have been more appropriate the day before, on Earth Day? A 15% reduction in salary as a result of these Furlough Fridays means that a large swath of California consumers are consuming less; fewer Chinese made imports being imported, fewer plastics being processed, less bunker fuel used to transport fewer items across the Pacific, fewer SUVs driving up the Sierra mountains to snow ski.

Seems to me that the earth, if it indeed is suffering at the hands of human activities, was better off Friday than on Earth Day.