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Earth Hour is ridiculous

March 28th, 2009
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Earth Hour is what it’s defined as on Wikipedia. It’s whatever you want it to be and it’s just ridiculous.

Earth Hour logoOnce every year, people around the world turn off their lights and electrical appliances for one hour. The time at which the event occurs is specific, so don’t do it at noon if it’s scheduled for 8:30 P.M.

What makes Earth Hour ridiculous isn’t the act, it’s the fact that people do it only at that moment and only for that duration.

You are who you are and I am who I am. Some people think I’m a bad guy, some people think I’m a good guy. But what kind of good or bad guy would I be, if I decided I would only be bad or good only one day per year, for a specific duration?

There is no reason to feel good for participating in Earth Hour; it’s just extremely hypocritical. Earth is like a life, you either take care of it or you don’t. Just like a baby, there’s no taking care of it partially.

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3 comments for this post

aureol
March 28th, 2009 @ 10:03:23

The idea of Earth Hour is NOT TO SAVE electricity, but to advertise, and alert everyone that there is a problem with wanton waste. Merely that. Lights on all day and all night is a waste.

So, “We have won!” You (and your readers) are duly alerted to the problem of wanton waste and you have written about it. Thanks.

Long
March 28th, 2009 @ 10:03:24

The point where everyone needs to be alerted is long gone. Everybody knows we should consume less and recycle. What good is it to advertise if nobody does anything about it? The only people who actually do anything are Al Gore and other leaders and I hardly see anybody following their footsteps. People acclaim the leader’ gestures, but nobody follows.

FYI, I may be misinterpreting your comment as you have misinterpreted my post, because I am not against Earth Hour, I’m criticizing the fact that it’s way smaller than what it should be. The misunderstand might come from the title, but that just has more impact than “Make Earth Hour longer and bigger”.

juniorlol
March 31st, 2009 @ 10:03:28

I am against Earth Hour. Consider:

The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Its call for people to renounce energy and to rejoice at darkened skyscrapers makes its real meaning unmistakably clear: Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization, and the renunciation of Human Achievement.

Not to mention that anything designed to “raise awareness” is a straw-man, house-of-cards notion that people who want to FEEL like they are doing something, but don’t actually DO anything…. they just imply that telling other people to do something is good enough. (In high-society out-of-touch land, inhabited by super wealthy actors and performers with a guilt complex, “raising awareness” means “do as I say and not as I do”)

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