Human Achievement Hour

Competitive Enterprise Institute ^ | March 28, 2009

[Delacon]

Watch the new CEI video celebrating Human Achievement Hour!

The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 to coincide with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change. Anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings.

We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible. 

Green and private conservation are fine. We have no problem with an individual (or group) that wants to sit naked in the dark without heat, clothing, or light. Additionally, we would have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That is their choice. But when this group stages a “global election” with the express purpose of influencing “government policies to take action against global warming,” we have every right as individuals to express our vote for the opposite

If Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th, CEI plans to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.

Here are some blog and news links on Human Achievement Hour, as well as some from supporters:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/03/23/th...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-03-26-earthhour_N.h...

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/columns/oped_contributors/Turn-it-on-T...

http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/DonSurber/200903250583

http://masterresource.org/?p=1681

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/christine-hall/2009/03/27/enviro-wikipedia-...

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzJmZTk2ODg1NWMyYzRmZmNkZjI3YzQ...

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/24/celebrate-human-achievement-hour/

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=466490

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213564/posts

http://www.newmexicoliberty.com/forum/topics/instead-of-green-goofiness

[Delacon]

Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

[anniegetyourgun]

Love the acronym - HAH!

[cripplecreek]

We better not have a massive unexplained blackout tonight.

[Delacon]

Hey DFG, you got Freep linked by CEI! Cool.

[MAexile]

Excellent idea. I will celebrate by turning on all the lights in my house and turning up the thermostat on my gas fireplace to 85. (But not for the whole hour, gets too hot!)

[Delacon]

“We better not have a massive unexplained blackout tonight”.

An explained power overload induced blackout though would be fantastic. I hope satelites can see my house tonight.

[Delacon]

Hey, in for a penny as they say. If it gets to hot, open a window. ;)

[neverdem]

HAH! LOL!

[cripplecreek]

I’m not doing anything different but we have some real nutjobs running the show.

An energy secretary who likes the idea of being able to turn our air conditioners down during peak usage hours.

[Delacon]

Nah CC, bump it up a couple megawatts tonite. The MSM is painting this as a vote in support of government global warming policies. The fact is that Earth Hour will mostly go unnoticed by most. Its only the greenies and us. So light a candle and curse the darkness for the cause.

[kara2008]

Every single light will be on in my house tonight.

This article says why.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=22887&news_iv_ctrl=1021

Excerpt:
Participants spend an enjoyable sixty minutes in the dark, safe in the knowledge that the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away. This bears no relation whatsoever to what life would actually be like under the sort of draconian carbon-reduction policies that climate activists are demanding: punishing carbon taxes, severe emissions caps, outright bans on the construction of power plants.

Forget one measly hour with just the lights off. How about Earth Month, without any form of fossil fuel energy? Try spending a month shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labor-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible.

[steelyourfaith]

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, in the link below, offers a short video in celebration of Human Achievement, a concept they are promoting to counter the leftist-ecotard-dimwits' Earth Hour (very appropriately symbolized by "lights out", IMHO).

 

Celebrate Human Achievement Hour,
March 28, 2009 !

[DFG]

Thanks for notifying me. Can’t wait to tell my wife and daughter that I am a celebrity now.

[clamper1797]

All ... and I do mean ALL my lights are on now .... FU junk science idiots