Mar 29 2008
Just say no to Earth Hour
Ok, my secret’s out: I won’t be observing Earth Hour tonight.
I think it’s a hand-holding, Kumbaya-singing, feel-good love-fest that amounts to not much more than a way for people to assuage their guilt – something like confessional for the Catholics.
“Cool, all I have to is turn off the lights for an hour once a year, and all the bad feelings I have about the damage we’ve done to the next generation’s environment? Gone!”
Meanwhile, the actual world-wide consumption of hydrocarbons will be up today, as well as pollutants, as people play charades by candlelight and use flashlights to read the latest David Suzuki column.
Just another example of environmentalists latching on to these feel-good emotional issues (baby seals, anyone?) and completely obscuring the important issues behind a cloud of publicity-pandering.
As my friend Stephen Humphrey noted, maybe it would be better to have Hate Harper Hour. And then someone should actually do something about the tar sands.
I love how The Star latched on to this as a publicity stunt, saying they’re going to observe Earth Hour too – only they’re going to do Earth Hour Lite. It’s business as usual for them, but they’re going to do it on emergency power. That means either those battery-operated lights that come on during fires – which will have to be recharged once the lights come back on – or even worse, they’ll fire up an inefficient hydrocarbon-burning generator in the basement.
Hogwash. Squeeze it, guys. Corporations need image.
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Yup. Banner the size of a billboard: HARPER YOU SUCK.
See if he ever gets embarrassed.