It's insane for the Gaia-worshiping envirowhackos to shut off their lights for one hour, in their pipsqueak Luddite defiance against Industrialized Civilization.
Posted on 04/04/2010 9:06:22 AM PDT by myknowledge
AS well-intentioned gestures go, Earth Hour is hard to beat. At 8.30pm on Saturday, March 27, nearly a billion people in more than 120 countries demonstrated their desire to do something about global warming by switching off their lights for an hour.
Earth Hour is surely one of the most successful publicity stunts to be dreamed up. First organised in Sydney in 2007 by the local chapter of the WWF, its popularity and the level of participation that generates has exploded in recent years, to the point that there is barely a corner of the earth that the campaign hasn't touched.
But has Earth Hour done anything to halt, or even slow, global warming? Not so much. The main thing anyone accomplished by turning off the lights at night for an hour was to make it harder to see. The environmental effect was negligible. Even if everyone in the world had participated last month, the result would have been the equivalent of turning off China's carbon emissions for 45 seconds.
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It's insane for the Gaia-worshiping envirowhackos to shut off their lights for one hour, in their pipsqueak Luddite defiance against Industrialized Civilization.
WE had a partial black out here in San Diego when SDGE ran out of power. That is the kind of earth hour that faces us.
I see North Korea turned off their lights.../s
Don’t they have electricity in Canada?
Sure, they probably turned off their lights, but had the TV, computer, and cell phones on.
They do, but almost every Canadian power plant and substation is within 400 km of the U.S. border.
North Koreans are especially devoted to Mother Gaia.
They observe Earth Hour every hour.
In the duel of Earth Hour versus Human Achievement Hour, on Saturday evening, March 27, at 8:30 p.m. YourTime, it might be interesting to see who (reportedly) took the plunge into darkness & despair for Earth Hour, unlike the rest of us who celebrated lights ON for Human Achievement Hour.
I am not making this up.
State government entities, including some capitol buildings, in
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Ironically, the rush to darkness troubled some government types, like the Niagara Falls fire department, who are worried about public safety.
The lion's share of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US border.
Regards,
GtG
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