Earth Hour?

I’ll be marking Human Achievement Hour myself.

http://www.conservative.org.au/human-achievement-hour.html

During Human Achievement Hour, people around the world will be recognising the incredible accomplishments of the human race.

Originally conceived by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2009, Human Achievement Hour coincides with the earth hour campaign but salutes those who keep the lights on and produce the energy that makes human achievement possible.

Millions of people around the world will be showing their support for human achievement by simply going about their daily lives. While earth hour activists will be left in the dark, Human Achievement Hour participants will be going to the cinema, enjoying a hot meal, driving their car or watching television.

There is really no limit to how you can support Human Achievement Hour just like there is no limit to what mankind can achieve.

just like there is no limit to what mankind can achieve.

The laws of physics might have something to say about that…

Or maybe God would place a limit on human achievement. But silly me for forgetting, conservatives don’t really believe in the faith they loudly proclaim.

If Earth Hour does nothing for you, does that make you (one) a bad person?

I must say, it doesn’t do much for me.

asquith, do you mean you think all conservatives and libertarians and sceptics are necessarily theists of some variety? How peculiar.

Earth hour seems a bit tokenistic but if it raises awareness so be it.

If people just switch the lights off for an hour and then go back to normal then its a waste of time.

@1 Hannibal

I like some human achievement stuff if you want to put it that way. This isn’t a zero-sum game. I’m not so keen on the reactionary Aussie crap you seem to like, though.

people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour at 8.30pm local time, in order to send a clear message to the world’s governments that climate change needs to be addressed urgently.

By turning our lights off? How will that prevent a natural phenomenon such a climate change?

Oohhhhhh, they mean MAN-MADE climate change. Of course, how silly of me. They’ve conflated the two.

Oh God!…I forgot to go crush that Coke Can downstairs, and put it in the Recycling Bin!!…I want to do my bit to save the Planet!!!
(I wonder if they will make it into an Airbus A-380?)

Which hippy came up with is crap?

Its a pity this well-intentioned gesture receives such a shitty response. It may be a bit naff but the attitude from many posting above says more about them than the original topic.

Hannibal, MarkM, Simon , TheOrator -

You are a sad bunch of angry wankers for no apparent reason. Why do you so object to people earnestly trying to do something about what they believe to be one of the most pressing issues of our time?

Yurrzem… I don’t object to you trying to do something you believe in,

You go ahead my friend..and do what you think is best.

I am not an angry wanker…just a realist, who happens to believe that Turning off a Light bulb, or throwing away a can or six, is going to do nothing to save the planet…because the Planet is just Dandy thanks…it’s Human Beings who are fucked!

Who comes up with this ludicrous hippy crap? No doubt the decent, hard-working taxpayer is pickpocketed somewhere along the line…

Don’t you think you should go & find out before you make pronouncements?

What about indecent, clock on & clock off taxpayers who don’t work hard?

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-discernible-difference.html

“No discernible difference”

See the energy consumption statistics on the attached link

There is absolutely no discernible difference between energy consumption before, during and after “earth hour”

World Wildlife Failure (WWF) and its pointless gesture of turning off the lights for an hour.

The WWF is becoming an increasingly discredited organisation with its bias and discredited lobbying……….

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7488629/WWF-hopes-to-find-60-billion-growing-on-trees.html

“WWF hopes to find $60 billion growing on trees”

“The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions”

It’s organisations like WWF that put people off the whole ‘Green Issue’ thing.

The Greens just seem to me, to be a bunch of Neo-Nazi’s all happy to live in Tents, getting Stoned, and speechifying about all us ‘normal people’ commiting Heinous sins against the Planet!

Bit like those useless twats at PETA…accusing all human’s of wearing Fur, and happily Killing animals for fun!…deluded tossers!

I rest my case.

Sadly, it appears a Panda was run over and killed, on an unlit Road during the Earth Hour Blackout