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. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.
In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.
And it's a darn shame, because the Earth IS NOT WARMING.
So, you expect me to waste an hour tonight sitting in the dark when I could be doing something like reading, or writing, maybe even surfing the net. If turning my lights off is a vote Earth, then I need to vote for global warming.
Here's something better to celebrate: Human Achievement Hour!
The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 to coincide with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change. Anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings.
We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible.
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 would have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That is 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 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, CEI plans to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.
And that is what Earth hours is: anti-man and anti-innovation. As Ann Coulter said in her book, If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd be Republicans, (And I paraphrase here):
Liberal environmentalists are people who admire the living situation of an earthworm and demand that humans emulate it.
Actually, you can just scratch that 'liberal' part off and just leave environmentalist. Needless to say, the treeehuggers weren't happy with this.
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.
The guy called the holiday mind-blowingly strange. Now that's a laugh. Humans doing normal things such as driving and eating dinner, maybe seeing a movie, is strange, as opposed to them sitting in the dark.
There's My Two Cents offers this:
I don't know about you, but I plan to light my house up like it's Christmas during Earth Hour. Depending on the weather -- it's possible we'll have a blizzard with over a foot of snow...or maybe we'll get no snow at all; isn't it amazing that we 'know' the earth is doomed from climate change when we can't even figure out the snowfall 48 hours in advance? -- I may open up my garage and start my vehicles, too, just to let them idle during Earth Hour. One of them is a full-sized SUV, so that should be extra nice.
Turn on some lights tonight, everyone.
Because a vote for global warming is a vote against the farce.
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