Earth Hour

It's time for my second annual Earth Hour post! (What is Earth Hour you ask? Read up on it!)

A few years ago (OK, like maybe 10 years ago) some guy was running a campaign in response to The Adopt A Turkey Project. While the project wanted you to send them money to save a turkey from slaughter and bill you for it's upkeep, he didn't want a red cent from you. All he asked you do was next Thanksgiving, instead of buying a large Turkey, you bought two small ones, and emailed the idiots from the The Adopt A Turkey Project about it (he said a photo of the two turkeys would be a nice thing to send them too).

His beef (if you pardon the expression) wasn't that it was wrong to save Turkey's (though he did kind think that was pretty stupid too), it was that this was a really stupid way to do it. After all, even in the unlikely event of the programs success, all farmers would do is just farm more turkeys: the same number as before for cooking – plus as many as they thought the turkey lovers might want to "save" that year.

Good intentions are not enough.

So here we are with Earth Hour. Does you really think it takes less energy to burn candles instead of a light bulb? Do you really think if we all switched to candles we'd help the environment?

Nope.

Does this bother Earth Hour fans?

Also nope!

Why the hell not?

Well, they got an answer: apparently it's all about getting people to "think about the environment".

I'll tell you what I think about when I hear this: these people are cretins.

So during earth hour I urge you all to turn ALL your lights on: and tell as many of your Earth Hour friends about it. Tell them you'll cut back to normal consumption as soon as you see they're lights go back on.

If they argue, don't argue back: it's pointless. Just turn up the thermostat too.