I haven’t bothered looking too closely into what it’s about, but if workers get a whole public holiday each year, and our military personnel get two, then surely it’s churlishness in the extreme to object to the planet getting an entire hour.
I don’t know what you’re planning to do to celebrate all Earth’s done for us, but I hope it’s something. Turn a light off. Turn a light on. Turn it on and off and on and off until the energy efficient bulb blows up and sprays mercury around your living room. Whatever. LIVE A LITTLE.
Three cheers for Planet Earth! Whatever its many faults, it’s always been there when we’ve needed it.
UPDATE: Proud to say that we supported the cause by turning every light in the house off for not just Earth Hour, but the whole evening. (We were out.)
Turned the lights off and lit paper planes made out of visa application forms, then flew them.
But yeh, point taken.
After all, what did the earth ever do for us that we should celebrate it’s existence, stop destroying it so badly and so quickly, or even look after it and try to help it a little?
Other than providing us with all the essential materials we need to go on living from day to day and into the future {at least for some way into the future, before we make it uninhabitable, actually now that I look at it that way, bad earth, at some point in the future you’re going to get too hot, with too much extreme weather, and not enough water and food to allow us rich people to continue living, so cop this pre-emptive punishment for a crime I know you’re going to commit, even if it will only be because of the pre-emptive punishment I deal out to you}.
Now that’s what I call a known known {the fact that I am going to punish the earth and it in turn will become less capable of supporting life, the exact degree to which I punish it, and the degree to which it makes survival so much harder, and the time at which survival becomes nigh impossible, is a known unknown.
Thanks America, your rationale for terrorism is easily aplied in an environmental context.
Didn’t do anything outside my normal nightly events,although I just dont leave anything on or not turned off if it isn’t doing ajob.Over this weekend a newly made road out the front of the paddocks I live in were visited by two car accidents in a spot almost exactly the same. Somehow I prefer the cattle in these paddocks and their dung, than road accidents.Yes Earth Hour by turning off the incandescent ,just doesn’t seem as real as driving to the conditions of the road and be alert.Someone may have to bury you because there are hardly any carrion birds in Australia that specialise on human flesh. And road kill kills the birds often that feed upon it.Yep! A nonsense idea Earth Hour purely economic,and not for the other living creatures as they are at that hour.