We'll Be Leaving the Lights on for Earth Hour
Yes, the climate change lunatics picked a day of personal importance to me for lights out. Around the globe, they're encouraging folks to turn off their electric lights in a demonstration to save the earth.
For what?
The dark demonstration will show support for Japan, stunt global warming, maybe rescue polar bears from an ice floe, I don't know. What all else might be good from turning the lights out is anybody's guess. Raising the world's birth rate next December comes to mind.
Dark glimpse of the future?
Preparing the world for expected blackouts and no more on-demand electricity will certainly result from the practice run on the 26th. I have high hopes that such a sacrificial practice will endear folks even more to the brilliant resource. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say of loved ones. I'm quite sure it follows for electricity too.
Opt for anti-progress
I'm reminded of the benefits electricity has provided to humanity. It brought us the technological advances of the 20th century that continue to this day. From those advances we have an expansion of the food supply, hygiene, nutrition, irrigation, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and a modern health care system that would be impossible without electricity. Oh, let's plunge back into darkness and see what fun it was.
Electricity enabled less hard labor and more productivity from men, allowed women the freedom from household chores, freed children from menial labor. All made for a more humane existence for people of all ages all over the globe. To me this is progress for humankind. Oh, let's dredge up some drudgery to which we can return.
We prefer to go backward
The celebrators of Earth Hour prefer a return to fire for heating and cooking, deforestation for wood fuel, smoke inhalation, lung disease and cancer. Kids will quit school to work the soil, cut wood, or otherwise deliver the labors electrical power now provides. Darkness prevails upon sunset.
Turn it all off
Earth Hour encourages more than just an hour on March 26th without lights. Go ahead. See how it feels to be dark for a day. Go for shutting down your computers, IPads, EPods, phones, games and electronic entertainments.
Also encourage street and traffic lights out, public transportation, air traffic control, business services like restaurants, dry cleaners, and roto rooter to shut down for awhile.
And don't forget to pull the plug on life saving medical devices keeping sick siblings, parents, and grand folks alive in the hospitals. Let's give Earth Hour a real workout.
...leavin' the light on
I'll be celebrating a blessed event at 8:30 p.m. on March 26th. I, for one, will be leaving a light ON for Earth Hour 2011.
Sources: http://www.earthhour.org/
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Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen
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25 Comments
Post a CommentGreat article. We can enjoy the benefits of living in this century and still be responsible.
If it would only help! Good report Lorraine, and thank you.
Wow, way to get your point across, well done.
I think it's admirable people wish to save the earth -- but to be honest, their methods in doing so are often harmful, rather than helpful. For instance: consider those little fluorescent bulbs that are supposed to last so long and will help spare the earth. Is that so, though? They contain mercury, albeit not a lot. So they may respond, they can be recycled. Hello! Do you really think the average person is going to do that little thing? No way. The old lights are better in my opinion for just that reason.
Thanks for sharing ♥ sometimes ya have to make a stand
That's awesome about your son's wedding :)
Please give us an update on birth statistics for late December 2011 :) I think you are right!
LOL. I love the sarcasm.
I support conservation and good judgement needs to apply. Turning off all lights at a specfic time or not buying gas on a particular day are simply gimmicks. Use the lights when you need them but be aware to power off when not needed. Good article and I like the point about the cell phones, ipads etc - the people pushing to turn all the lights off will have all their gadgets charged up.
Absurdity reigns.