Saturday, March 29, 2008

Turn Out the Lights,



Another Meaningless Empty Symbolic Gesture.



SYDNEY (AFP) - Twenty-six major cities around the world are expected to turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness to raise awareness about global warming, organisers said. Cities officially involved in 'Earth Hour' include Aalborg, Aarhus, Adelaide, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brisbane, Canberra, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen, Darwin, Dublin, Hobart, Manila, Melbourne, Montreal, Odense, Ottawa, Perth, Phoenix, San Francisco, Suva, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vancouver. (link)

Comment: Liberals love the meaningless empty symbolic gesture. Turn off your lights and show how much you “care.” Show your solidarity with others who “care.” This feel-good measure can make you feel like you are “doing something." The only possible reason for something like this is to raise awareness. Mr Friends, awareness has been raised! It is time to get behind policy changes that will actually do something. Showing how environmentally pious you are is useless. I will be keeping the lights on.

2 comments:

BoBo said...

Gotta agree with you on one thing there Rod, this is most definitely meaningless and empty..also considering that man-made global warming has pretty much been debunked now. Also, considering just last week they concluded a five year oceanic scrub that found there have been increases in the CO sediment. In fact, it has been decreasing. Three weeks ago they reported that the U.S. and many international thermometers used to check global temps have been installed incorrectly and have been errantly reporting temps of up to +6 degrees which throws off the aggregate. While it is to everyone's benefit to conserve natural resources..it should not be at the expense of instilling fear in our children that they are going to die because of global warming or having the U.N. try to back-door our constitution through international "green-taxes" based on this hoax perpetrated on the global community by Al Gorebacile.

BoBo said...

that should read..no increases in the CO sediments.