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I just spotted this over at Michelle Malkin's site.
Human Achievement HourSo....tomorrow evening at the appointed time, celebrate humanity's achievement in not living in a cold, dark cave and use technology as it was intended to be used.This weekend, enviro-zealots will celebrate “Earth Hour” by turning off their lights. They’ve pulled this stunt for a few years now. But this time, they’ve added a new twist: “This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming.”
How about voting for human achievement? Michelle Minton at the Competitive Enterprise Institute has a good proposal:
This week CEI announced the creation of Human Achievement Hour (HAH) to be celebrated at 8:30pm on March 28th 2009 (the same time and date of Earth Hour).Our press release described ways people might celebrate the achievements of humanity such as eating diner, seeing a film, driving around, keeping the heat on in your home—all things that Earth Hour celebrators, presumably, should be refraining from. In the cheekiest manner, we claimed that anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings. Needless to say, the enviros in the blogosphere didn’t take to kindly to our announcement.
Matthew Wheeland, an environmental journalist called the holiday “mind-blowingly strange” and pondered if Earth hour folks are including in their numbers people in countries that don’t have enough electricity to make the choice to turn out their lights. Of course, they don’t have the choice to acquire electricity whereas anyone can choose to stop using human technology if they wish…
…Green and private conservation are fine. We have no problem with an individual (or group) that wants to sit naked in the dark without heat, clothing, or light. Additionally, we’d have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That’s their choice. But when this group stages a “global election” with the express purpose of influencing “government policies to take action against global warming,” we have every right as individuals to express our vote for the opposite
If our Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th I plan to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.
I plan to turn my lights on and off repeatedly for a minute. It gives this real cool slow motion
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Da Goddess said:
I was awake and watching TV, eating dinner. Yep, I used electricity.
While there's nothi
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Skipernicus said:
Oh come on, quit being so goddamn petty. Some people want to flick off their lights, so what? Rea
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Oh come on, quit being so goddamn petty. Some people want to flick off their lights, so what? Really, so what?
|| Posted by Skipernicus, March 28, 2009 12:53 AM ||I was awake and watching TV, eating dinner. Yep, I used electricity.
While there's nothing inherently wrong with participating in a 'lights out' activity, to do so under the impression that the earth gives a crap or that we're doing something big and bold and important is just silly.
|| Posted by Da Goddess, March 29, 2009 01:12 AM ||I plan to turn my lights on and off repeatedly for a minute. It gives this real cool slow motion effect like you are walking on the moon.
|| Posted by gselser, April 5, 2009 05:18 PM ||