The whole mentality around Earth Hour demonizes electricity. I cannot do that, instead I celebrate it and all that it has provided for humanity. Earth Hour celebrates ignorance, poverty and backwardness. By repudiating the greatest engine of liberation it becomes an hour devoted to anti-humanism. It encourages the sanctimonious gesture of turning off trivial appliances for a trivial amount of time, in deference to some ill-defined abstraction called “the Earth,” all the while hypocritically retaining the real benefits of continuous, reliable electricity.
Friday, March 25, 2011
A Lightbulb Moment?
A university professor with a refreshing point of view. Bravo Professor McKitrick.
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"Earth Hour" 2011 is 8.30pm March 26 so don't forget to switch on all your lights and small appliances :))
ReplyDeleteUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today announced his support for Earth Hour 2011 as a powerful symbol of a shared wish for a sustainable and secure future.
Oh shut up General Moon bat =))
I'm with McKitrick. I also abhor Earth Hour. It's stupid and ignorant.
ReplyDeleteI think we should have an hour when we turn on EVERY light, as a celebration of our brains and ingenuity. So there! :D
And what Fay said! :))
ReplyDeleteLady red, there is an hour to turn on every light. It is is 8:30pm March 26.
ReplyDeleteAnd while they tell you to turn off all the lights, don't forget to plug in your electric car.
Egads! My reeding comprehenshun is off the scale. 8-}
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt.
/wandering off in a daze
;))
This *turn off the lights* bullshit reminds me of North Korea ... where there are almost no lights visible from a satellite at night. Any night. THAT is the real world without electricity.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of these *advocates* have ever really spent any significant time in a wildness environment, or in a war zone, where there really is no electricity, and no light to speak of? How many of these earth huggers would have homes to live in if all they had to build with was a shovel, an ax, and an adz blade?
Trying to turn ordinary economic prudence in to a quasi-religious movement is too sad to be funny.
Aridog, Aridog, Aridog.
ReplyDeleteYou know full well that they would be allowed to keep their electricity because they are important people. It is pond scum such as you and I that need to do without. I am disappointed that you didn't remember that.
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ReplyDeleteI seem to remember reading some time ago, perhaps at the last "Earth hour", that these earth hours where everyone turns off their electricity for an hour actually uses more electricity because of the power surges when it's all switched on again.
ReplyDeleteBlooming nincompoops! :))
Reminds me of those days when people "punish" oil companies by going a day without buying gas. Never mind the fact that they more than make up for it the next day.
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