Earth Hour
Can anyone tell me the sense in a community tuning out it's household lights, while the streets remain fully illuminated?
What is the point, in a coal-fired, power-derived society of tuning out the house lights in the full and complete knowledge that coal continues to be fed to furnace fires to heat steam for turbines? Nothing changes, people! You can shut off your house lights and nothing happens!! Not a bloody thing! Emissions don't go down. Carbon dioxide isn't reduced. Turning off your lights for a hour has to be the most futile of symbolic gestures I've ever heard of.
Why not do something more productive. Breed frogs. Stop feeding wildlife in national parks. Don't throw your cigarette butt out of the car window. Get involved in solar cell technology by installing some on your roof. Make your own beer for crissakes!!!!
You think turning your lights out for an hour makes a dot of difference to the ultimate fate of the species and this planet we all live on? Wake the fuck up!!!!!!!!!
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I didn't take part in that exercise, but I always switch my lights off anyway. It's my peasant upbringing. But I did say something along similar lines to a family member (she wanted us to bring candles to dinner at her place because of Earth Hour). I told her that until people stopped driving those ridiculous Hummer vehicles in the suburbs, then we'll talk.