Earth Hour 2015
 

this saturday night(from 8:30 to 9:30 pm every time zone), everyone will be switching off their lights during to fight climate change.

ftfy

Earth Hour is little more than a symbolic event, I think. Switching off your lights for one hour of the year means dick if you're not doing anything the rest of the year.

I'm gonna drive my Canyonero around town while spraying aerosol cans out of the window in support of this great cause.

Yet another example of the silliness of feel-good symbolism over substance. :laughing:

1 hour?

That's like the equivalent of having $1,000 and deciding to save 11 cents.

The intent is to raise general awareness, but for many, this will just be something to make them feel better about their consumption and emissions. I really hope this is not all the majority is willing to do to stop climate change, because if so, I genuinely fear for the extended survival of life on earth.

International Shoot a Transformer Day would work much better.

but how much would it be if everyone on earth saved 11 cents

Huh, I do that every night before I go to bed so I'm well ahead of the curve.

My global warming-denying, Republican grandfather who treats me like the scum of the earth every time I leave a light on after I leave a room is doing more to reverse climate change than these goofballs.

Death to Michael Bay Day.

$660,000,000. Which, if you distribute among six billion people would equal... eleven cents. Redistribute that wealth, baby.

Exactomundo.

There's 8,766 hours in a year. 1 / 8,766 = 0.0001

So instead of a person using 100% of power for the year that one hour off means they're only using 99.989%

This sounds stupid as hell.

if you donate $50 to charity its only .1% of your annual pay if you make 50k. may as well not donate anything imo whats the point if youre not donating it all am I right

Well, if you're gonna start donating to charity then you might as well commit to more than just $50 just the one time. And global warming is a problem that isn't going to be affected by the equivalent of $50, whereas you can actually feed a few homeless people for that much.

Yeah, totally apples to oranges.

my point is that accumulation matters more than the individual contribution

With money, yes.

This whole Earth Hour thing is just touchy, feely BS for the tree huggers.

But you're not accumulating ****. You're not even really encouraging anyone who isn't already concerned with the issue to do anything about it. Education and public discourse are hopefully going to accomplish something, not symbolic crap like this that the global warming deniers are just going to laugh off as hippy, pinko self-indulgence. By all means, go ahead and make yourself feel like an activist. I'm sure it'll be just as useful as Kony 2012.

I always thought of Earth Hour as more of an awareness thing really, and kind of an example of what people can do if they work together. Just a very ineffective one. Like International Women's Day or Black History Month. At least it's only an hour. Some people just try to make too big of a deal out of it like with many things.

why would the same theory not work for energy?

also just an aside ive never done this earth day thing but I also don't really understand the hatred its gotten here

I reckon it would save me about 2 to 3 cents on my annual electric bill.

I don't need to be reminded to use less electric power. My monthly electric bill is more than enough to motivate me to use less electricity throughout the year. :laughing:

Well, global warming is a big deal, so arrangements related to it should be given attention. But I do think that this event shouldn't get hyped, because even though it's meant to raise awareness, what it does is make sofa activists think they're actually doing a good job by saving light for one hour, and thus setting the bar really low.

"Don't despair! We can save this doomed world by turning off the light for an hour! That'll help!"

Plus I can see Hannity making huge fun of it on his show for being so lame.

That'd be a nice break from him unintentionally making fun of himself on his show for being so lame.

Because it's stupid as ****, and yet some idiots think it matters. Gotta hate the idiots.

I see this is a way to spread awareness more than a "look, i'm doing my part".

I'm going to start a National "Turn Off the Light When Leaving a Room" movement.

Let's say you have 3 people living in your home and each of them saves 15 minutes of electricity a day just by turning off the light when leaving a room - even if it's for only a few minutes at a time.

3 x 15 minutes = 45 minutes x 365 days = 16,425 = 274 hours a year.

Earth Hour? Phffffft.

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^i don't get it

I mean he just dropped a bomb on all the touchy feely pseudo-activist people.

oh. i thought you meant nuclear war is a possible solution to global warming.

Well, it kinda is. Nuclear winter and all.

Well, there are a LOT of people in China and India who are packed pretty close together, so I imagine if you were gonna help global warming by reducing population, then those would be the places to do it, especially since you'd have to use a smaller amount of nukes to achieve the same drop in population.

Awesome vid JWB.

yea, and taking china and india out would most likely collapse the world economy, meaning even more worldwide would die or be cast into poverty

Dude, what if we launched our garbage into space?

that sounds expensive. we should just select a weak country like canada or something and force them to take it.