Saving earth in one hour?
Published Friday, March 28, 2008
I've always heard leaders try to motivate small groups to do seemingly gargantuan tasks by asking a simple question:
How do you eat an elephant?
You do it one small bite at a time.
Meaning, determination and taking small "bites" out of something can make tall tasks shrink in size.
That thought struck me today after a sharp-eyed Web reader sent me a link to the "Earth Hour" site.
The site provides all of the details, but essentially, it's a global effort to raise awareness of how much our energy consumption zaps the environment.
The concept is simple: People all over the world will turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday beginning at 8 p.m.
It'll be interesting to see how many folks across America participate. Reducing our "footprint" on the world is an elephant on which we need to start nibbling.
So flip off the lights and pass the salt.
Comments
Sounds like some sort of liberal goody goody feel good stuff to me. But I'll try it. I'm sure me and the wife will figure out something we can do in the dark.
Can we leave the TV on, or surf the web, while we have the lights off?
Sounds like Mr. Cooper has been talking to Owhampy!
So is it 8 central standard time or is it the German time seven hours before our 8 pm?
OldGrandDad: What a great excuse to use with the wife, if she happens to be a tree hugger...LOL...Kevin, too much liberal Kool Aid!...our footprint will not effect nature which naturally warms and cools despite our efforts.
I will try it, but I too, wonder about the time zone it takes effect. If it does not rely, just on time zones, I think it would still serve the same purpose, less the government wants the darkest condition possible for picture taking, via satellite.
You can do whatever you please Peace, for just a while longer; don't plan on using google from 8 to 9 though because they will be shutting down during the blackout.
As for me, I don't intend to do anything I would not ordinarily do as a protest against this global collectivist foolishness. Earth Hour is organized by the World Wildlife Fund, which sees Cuba as a model of responsible government:
"For example, Cuba has roughly double the growth rate of other countries in Latin America, and yet is recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as the only country in the world with sustainable development. It’s an example of the fact that it’s not development per se that’s the problem, but capitalist development."
This quote is from the Eco Left website, an article entitled 'Eco-Socialism: Feasible Environmental Solutions'.
What this little WWF stunt is about is seeing how many people will participate in this junk-science based reaction to the spectre of man made global warming; the aim is to drum up as much possible support for the hysteria of imminent doom so that hopefully people world wide will allow the UN to control the flow of all resources around the world, including human resources they now call human capital, once known as people.
As the global socialists admit, it is not development that is the problem, but non-socialistic development. Environmental issues are being used to promote global socialism.
Socialism is fine in its' place, such as the collective farms in Israel and Palestine, where people of a common ideology can revel in orgies of common ideological utopian fantasies. It sucks for the rest of us though, who suffer already from too much centralized control of resources and capital. Socialists want the majority to live in sustainable poverty while the few who rule, by right of their superior genetics as God or nature's chosen people, live lives of ease and wealth deciding who can have how much of what, sustained by the labor of others. It is nothing more than slavery with a smiley face and tweed jacket with leather elbow patches.
Google apparently didn't shut down...it just changed the background to black...lotta good that did...I agree EnKiKur with your accessment of the environment being used as a tool to promote socialism.
Amend!
I didn't say I agreed with the idea ... I just found it interesting and through it up for discussion. :)
Kevin: You mean you "threw" it up for discussion? Who proofreads your blog? Who proofreads your paper?...LOL
Oops ... no one proofreads my blog posts ... (obviously).
Yes, I meant "threw" not "through" ... I think I fired off the comment quickly between folding clothes ... not the best time to type, obviously. I blame the lint in the air.
As for the newspaper, stories are read by at least two people prior to publication. We're obviously human and make more mistakes than we should. And we feel guilt and shame over each and every one. Trust me, no reporter, copy editor or page designer likes to make mistakes.
Kevin...it was a good natured jibe...if you're folding clothes and contributing to domestic tranquility, then the hurried remark and spelling are entirely understandable...although I would like to say that I have noticed that the proofreading of the paper itself is relatively deficient...I'm no Shakespeare, but attention to detail is in my nature...just a little constructive criticizm...you're a good man...endeavor to persevere...LOL
Am I allowed to have a smoke now?
lol
Did anything happen?
Heck yeah...!!!
lol, old granddad sounds like you had a treat. I lived in Calif. for quite awhile and naturally that made an energy saver out of me. Still take military showers and all lights off unless a "very much" need for them. Haven't broken a bone yet in the dark!! ha ha.
Can't believe I slept through it! LOL
I find the fear of socialism to be an unbelievably stupid reason to be wasteful and unthinking about the environment. But anyone who can't anticipate environmental problems from unregulated free enterprise has got to have made an "F" in chemistry.
We don't need socialism if we have responsible, caring people who don't confuse environmental concern with a diabolical red menace.
There are a lot of sheep wearing pants in this country, who like to think of themselves as tough, smart folks who can't be fooled. They can be just as ignorant as those who don't have time for public concerns and they are very easy to manipulate.
A lot of them can't talk about the environment without their free enterprise rap getting in the way. I think most of these folks are not very good at what they do and are looking for social support with their tirades about the greatness of their economic system. But most of them I have met haven't used their opportunities well.
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