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Muz

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Earth hour
« on: March 25, 2011, 11:35:51 am »

Hey, Earth Hour starts tomorrow. And I can't help but feel like this is all just a stupid, backwards move.

Turn off the lights? Ok. And maybe if this was still 1999, when people actually used light bulbs and the lights used up electricity.

But lighting candles? I'm horrified that people think that turning off fluorescent lights in exchange for candles is actually going to save the world. Candles may have negligible CO2 emissions, but so do most of our lights ::)

This Earth Hour thing started off as a noble concept, but seems to have formed into some ignorant hippy movement to hate technology.
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 11:38:53 am »

Earth hour is just so people feel better about the fact that every other bit of their lifestyle is horrible for the environment. 
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 12:16:51 pm »

Earth hour is just so people feel better about the fact that every other bit of their lifestyle is horrible for the environment.

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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 12:20:53 pm »

If you want to stop using technology just become Amish or something.

(Though most of the Amish around here cheat by asking non-Amish for help, like rides in cars and what not)
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 12:47:59 pm »

Every time Earth Hour comes up I feel a great temptation to buy an excessive amount of high-powered floodlights and strap them to the roof of my home, just to spite the hippies. The whole thing is just stupid. There are also apparently counter-events called Edison Hour and Human Achievement Hour, because they percive Earth Hour being anti-technology and anti-human, respectively. I think that's sort of overdoing it, but they do have a point. We have better things to do than waste our time on powering down all of our electronics.
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 12:48:39 pm »

Though most of the Amish around here cheat by asking non-Amish for help, like rides in cars and what not

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What's the rationale?  "I'm not doing it because someone else is doing it for me"?  What's the point of self-imposed restrictions if you worm your way around them?

Maybe I should try being all pious or building character or whatever, too.  "I'm not doing it because the <insert device/modern convenience here> is doing it for me."
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2011, 12:50:46 pm »

Heh, MSH, good to know I'm not the only jerk around who thinks like that.
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2011, 01:10:39 pm »

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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2011, 01:52:55 pm »

Why not?
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2011, 01:55:06 pm »

Because on the internet it's a big deal which dead electrician you think is the coolest.
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2011, 01:57:57 pm »

And because Edison was kind is a dick afaik.
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2011, 01:58:29 pm »

Because on the internet it's a big deal which dead electrician you think is the coolest.
Dead scientists are srs bsns
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2011, 02:04:30 pm »

Edison
technology

Haha, no.
Hey, not my idea.
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 02:05:34 pm »

Because on the internet it's a big deal which dead electrician you think is the coolest.

Not nearly as cynical as I was expecting. I am disappointed.

And because Edison was kind is a dick afaik.

Apparently you knew a guy that died about seventy years before you were born?
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Re: Earth hour
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2011, 02:09:51 pm »

Because, ya know, you can't know something unless you've been there, right?
*shrug* I don't even know where I got that from.
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