Lights aren’t the only thing that turned off on Saturday night. Earth Hour is dying and Mother Gaia is crying.
You know these are dark days for eco-wackos when Treehugger.com, a division of Discovery, shares this bad news:
Earth Hour started in Sydney in 2007; by 2009 it had spread around the world, becoming a very big deal everywhere but in the USA, where it never really caught on; even the website is empty and looks bogus. This year, the Australian organizers promise over a billion participants in 133 countries. A lot of press releases are flying round the internet, but something seems to be missing. This year the lights are going out not with a bang, but a whimper.
Three years ago in Toronto, ten thousand people turned up to hear Nelly Furtado sing “Turn out the light” at an Earth Hour concert in Toronto; last year a couple of hundred showed up; this year the concert is cancelled.
Here at IHateTheMedia.com intergalactic headquarters we celebrated Earth Hour by turning on the electricity-sucking flat screen TV and watching Cops.
(Eat your heart out. You know you wish your life was as exciting as ours.)
Source: Treehugger.com
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Anyone remember last year's Earth Hour, when all the lights were on at Al Gore's Tennessee home?
This year I was working in a friend's recording studio with the lights on. We nuked a pizza.
I must have just awakened from a twenty year snooze..."What the hell is Earth Hour?" Is it anything like Earth Day? Another useless, pointless libtard attempt to make hay out of a thouroughly debunked global warming, CO2 producing, acid rain falling, the Amazon rain forest is dying, the polar icecap is melting, the Polar Bears are extincting scam to scare little libtard kids and stupid liberal people. I'm sure I had most of my electrical appliances going at that time of day because that's when I'm home to use them. I'm with most of you, next time they have this useless celebration of utter stupidity, I'll try to make enough light around my home that it can be seen from the international space station!
Earth Hour's today? I didn't even know, shows just how important it is.
I heard about it and ignored it until 2009. That year I left the bathroom lights on. 2010 I turned on everything I had. I dug a few old lamps out of the attic to cast every freaking lumen could muster. I baked a bunch of bread and cooked a big pot of chili, all electric. The confession part of this is that in 2008 I bought a supply of those goofy compact florescent lights that are hazardous material laden but otherwise really good for the trees or some crap, I dunno. But I was burning 20 or 25 of em. This year I celebrate Earth by writing this for you, but only for a couple minutes. I will likely leave a few extra lights on for good measure, since my cost for energy must necessarily skyrocket in the near future - more and again - nows the time for wasteful CFL abuse.
I just can't believe that people are still doing this or even talking about it.
More ecolunacy. I'm surprised no-one's thought to make it compulsory to deprive ourselves of the benefits of electricity for an hour, a day, a week, or forever. Oh, wait a Goddamn minute, that's the ultimate plan, isn't it? The use of electricity will be verboten without the necessary permit issued by Greenie High Command.
Earth Hour indeed. I see it is hearteningly having the oposite effect, where most of us who are utterly browned off with the whole stupid climate-change myth either ignore it, or make a pointed and sustained effort to scupper it, once and for all. Good job too.
Gotta love the Libtard mind!
I'm supposed to feel bad because...
1.) I use electricity
2.) I'm white
3.) I'm male
4.) My country has a strong military
5.) My country was built on a spot where a few thousand people spent a few thousand years camping
6.) I don't do enough weeping for the plight of [fill in the blank].
And then they tell me they don't like religion because it's "based on guilt."
"Earth Hour" was not observed here in Wisconsin (except Madison, of course), it got minimal publicity. Too bad, I missed the opportunity to turn on all my indoor and outdoor house lights. But Earth Day is coming in April so I'll have another chance to illuminate the neighborhood.
I made sure to have my PC, my lights and fan, my 40 inch HD tv and my xbox 360 on. I would've turned my Nintendo Wii on as well, but I can't game on the same screen with it.
LOL, hadn't even heard that "Earth Hour" was last night....and I'm in Seattle! HA!
Yeah, I forgot about it. I had planned to turn everything on as I did last year.
There wasn't much media surrounding it this year. I guess with a crappy president, a bad economy, and wars on 3 different fronts - Earth hour just seemed a tad to stupid to talk about. I didn't even hear abut it until yesterday after noon and that was via a youtube post.
I hadn't, either, and I'm also in Seattle. I was at work and we were too busy making money to turn out the lights on our customers.