Image by The Humble Libertarian © 2009
Though you are welcome (and encouraged) to repost this image
In case the editorial I published on Sunday didn't make it clear enough... I am opposed to "Earth Hour" and I was shocked and discouraged that such an event took place. Perhaps the image above summarizes more succinctly and poignantly, the case I made that "Earth Hour's" aims are destructive to human freedom and flourishing.
The battle lines were drawn at 8:30 pm local time on Saturday, and the "Earth Hour" demonstrators were proud to side with North Korea. Such an admission should sound the death knell for the environmental movement as we know it today, but has likely rallied more to their cause, a damning indictment of our age.
If you want to see the difference between freedom and tyranny, prosperity and poverty, flourishing and misery, good and evil- look no further than the Korean peninsula and behold the stark contrast between the light and darkness.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
A Fake Advertisement For Earth Hour
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There were similar "doctored" photos like this after the New York blackout, not long after 9/11.
I and my family did not participate in the so-called Earth Hour... because it proves nothing and it solves nothing. Just like the ever popular gas station boycott e-mails that get circulated every few months. They don't solve anything.
One hour's worth of saving electricity is a joke. Going off the grid completely... that's a different story.
The New York blackout you bring up is another great example of the bankruptcy of "Earth Hour." A blackout isn't a good thing- it's a disaster. It's an emergency that needs to be fixed.
As mentioned in my comment on the other post, by coincidence I was in a blackout during Earth Hour. Darn, I didn't even get to have the warm fuzzy feelings, all I could do was curse the darkness and light a candle like everyone else in my part of the city.
Going off the grid would be lovely unfortunately I dont have the money to buy a decent watermill and windmill and convert them to make electricity and grind flour at the same time.
Earth Hour is wasted on me I put a light on
You should totally blog that, Greg. You should have even live blogged it! -oh wait.
HNL, good for you. We celebrated human achievement hour at my place too with a nice show of switched on lights and open windows.
Amazing, there's still people who thinks global warming is the greatest lie ever told, human actions doesn't affect nature whatsoever and NOW Earth Hour is a pointless project and its impact on earth means nothing.
Freedom? Earth Hour takes away your freedom? It's one miserable hour at the year (for those who never make something) and you're bothered because ir takes away prosperity and freedom? Are you kidding me? Light is made by a large number of industries which emit tons of CO2, and making the world help the planet for once in their life is bad because, as I read on your previous editorial, the unproduced money of that day and the poor communities that lose light feeling like a jail. Of course I don't know the truth about everything, but I don't think WWF would actually force those countries to make that.
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