Celebrate Human Achievement Hour,
March 28, 2009 !
Posted on 03/27/2009 4:53:01 PM PDT by Ed Hudgins
March 27, 2009 -- Environmentalists worldwide are urging people to turn off all their lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28 at 8:30pm local time. “Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming,” declares the “Earth Hour” website.
Much has been written about the questionable science behind the fear of global warming. Some, but not enough, has been written about the immediate and terrible harm to human beings that the policies to combat warming would produce, compared to the highly speculative harm attributed to the warming itself.
Earth Hour in fact demonstrates how evil ideas, wrapped in soft symbolism, can kill. And it demonstrates how only a morality of rational self-interest can sustain life on earth.
Earth vs. humans
Consider the stated purpose of Earth Hour. It’s not to offer us the sensible suggestion that we turn our lights off when we’re not in a room in order to lower our electric bills. That’s an appeal for individual human beings to act in their own self-interest. A “vote for Earth” assumes that the Earth has an intrinsic “Mother-Nature” value of its own, apart and distinct from its value to we human beings.
It’s not that forests are of value to us because we humans can take pleasant walks in them or use them for lumber to build our houses. It’s that forests have rights; icebergs have rights; swamps have rights; mosquitoes have rights; dirt has rights.
Ideas have a logic of their own that implies actions, for good or ill, sometimes contrary to the stated intentions of those who hold those ideas. Believe that there is a “superior” Aryan race and that another group—Jews—is responsible for the world’s misery, and to the extent that …
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I’m on.
I don’t get these hippies. They want us to sit around the dark for an hour. For what purpose to remember the days of living in caves with no indoor plumbing, no phones etc.
Is this what we are supposed to look forward to?
I’m doing the exact opposite. Plus I’ll have a BBQ and smoke a nice robusto!
Or backwards to in this case.
“Shemp” on FNC just reported this, we are going to turn every light in our house for that hour.
We get hours, sometimes days, and once weeks of that when Mother Nature knock down our power lines.
Not a problem -- we just crank up the woodstoves and release CO2 and other byproducts. If Grannie Gaia didn't like that I doubt she'd give us the opportunity (to snuggle before a warm fire).
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
I will forget about this by tomorrow, so will most people.
Do they really think people are going to sit around and pick their noses on Saturday night?
Millions of people living in poverty in third world countries is much more harmful to the planet than progress or “unsustainable development.” The more prosperous a nation is the less likely it is to spew pollutants into the air. No?
I fully support the Earth.
That's why, instead of just one hour, I'm going to turn my lights off from 7:00 AM til 7:00 PM tomorrow!
After this winter, I vote for global warming, whether or not it already exists.
I’m in. Lights On!
I think I'll leave them on then. I like Hawaii's climate better than Alaska's. ;-)
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
— Ayn Rand
Light em up tomorrow night folks....I am...these people are so pathetic..
I'm all on. 8:30, eh? I had heard 8 PM but 8:30 is cool. I'll be grabbin' the kilowatts faster than the greens can shed 'em.
Don't worry - they'll still have the gentle glow of the bong to aid them in finding the chips.
ACORN will be out in force noting every address not in compliance.
yitbos
Our house will visible from the space station.
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