Posted on 03/22/2012 6:30:23 AM PDT by pabianice
Join WWF for Earth Hour 2012, the world's largest single campaign for a better future for the planet. Pledge to switch off your lights and take a stand for the planet on Saturday, March 31, at 8:30 pm.
Then, get more involved:
Post your participation on Facebook and encourage others to join you.
Boast of your commitment to go Beyond the Hour on Twitter (#EarthHour).
Toast your friends and neighbors at an Earth Hour event. Earth Hour demonstrates the power of individuals, communities, businesses and governments to create change. Think what can be achieved when we all come together for a common cause.
The irony of using power to run the computers to talk about saving the planet and all that is lost on the liberals. Their reasoning ability does not allow them to comprehend the hypocrisy of turning off lights to save power, but using so much power to run their electronic gadgets.
“Toast your friends and neighbors at an Earth Hour event.” they’d taste better deep-fried.
Crap, I turn of my lights to save my wallet! 19 cents a kw/hr in Fairbanks!
The libs should all eat spoiled rotten food (no refrigeration), forego antibiotics (no manufacturing, no refrigeration), haul their own water from the well (no pumps), and crap in the outhouse (no sewage system) for an hour on Saturday. Then half of them over age 40 should commit suicide to simulate the shortened lifespans resulting from no electricity. Only after all that would they would have the credibility to report back to us about how much of a paradise they’ve created by repealing the Industrial Revolution.
Critical thinking skills are not plentiful among the right-brained, logic-challenged, “feeeeeeling” leftists.
Me too! I turn on every light in the house, tv even oven and coffee maker. My kids enjoy it!
The WWF must be totally in love with North Korea because they turn off their lights EVERY night not just once a year.
Yeah, every time I spray that stuff on my light bulbs, it just turns brown and stinks.
You exemplify the lack of logical thinking of your class, Sybeck. Why aren’t you living in a hemp sack on a commune, slaving from dawn to dusk to grow a few vegetables, dying at age 35 from any one of dozens of diseases? Because of ELECTRICITY and human ingenuity, that’s why. If you dislike electricity so much, we recommend you spend a year in North Korea or Korea then get back to us on your experience. You don’t have the guts to do that...instead, you’ll preach to us as an elite who knows better than everybody else how everyone should live their lives.
In regard to your video, it is a non sequitur to connect littering the planet to electricity.
North Korea has been celebrating Earth Century.
I’ll be pulling our cherished 100 watt incandescent bulbs out of their hiding place in my gun locker, swapping them out for the pigtail CFL’s we’re currently (forced) to use...and turning on EVERY light in the house in celebration of Dim Bulb Hour.
I also have to ask...does this include unplugging the Volts and Leafs?
Good - you’ll be able to see my place from orbit that night.
Yep, both giant flat-screens, the A/C, every light in the house... I think I’ll pull a turkey out of the freezer, too. Heehee
This place will be glowing on 3/31, starting at noon.
I’ll turn on lights I never use during the year, in addition to both TV sets, the stereo, the toaster oven (empty), and might test the garage door openers twenty or thirty times, just to make sure they’re working properly.
It might be a good time to clean the ovens, too.
Nobody - NOBODY - tells me what to do with utilities I pay for.
Nobody.
Remind me to go through the house turning on all the lights. (Normally, I turn them off and wonder why my kids can’t...)
It’s a joke. I just remember that Indian on my TV all the time growing up. My lights will be blaring that hour for sure, cause I ain’t no tree hugger.
but to feel good about themselves as a “good person”, affirming the lie that they are righteous because of what they advocate and do."
Exactly. It's all about their meaningless little rituals, their shows of self-righteous concern, so that they can pat themselves on the back.
Also, being anti-God, they don't understand that the planet doesn't need "saving." God is firmly in control of His plan for the earth.
I post this every year, but it’s just as much fun each time:
Your local brain-dead envirowhacko can stop or start the flow of electrons just by flipping a switch - not so your local utility. There’s a lag time for cranking up and cranking down the turbines, so if you know you’re going to lose some demand and then it’s going to come back an hour later (at some not perfectly predictable value), you’ve got to keep those turbines spinning, whether they’re pushing electrons through the wires or not.
So the amount of energy saved is likely to be wayyyyyyyyy less than what’s publicized - and much of the power that’s used up during that hour is just wasted.
But hey, somebody’s feeling good about themselves, and that’s all that matters, right?
I thought that if we had those new pigtails filled with mercury we didn’t need to turn off our lights anymore. What gives?
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