The Reality Of Sunday Morning
Will you be participating in Earth Hour on Saturday? |
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| Yes |  | 3158 votes | (44 %) |
| No | | 2552 votes | (36 %) |
| What's Earth Hour? | | 1448 votes | (20 %) |
Total Votes: 7158 T.O. hopes 1 million will take part in Earth Hour Wishful Thinking.......as of 5:31 PM Friday, March 28th 2008 the Earth Hour organizer's Web Site Showed: | |||
4 comments:
what con job?
What's the con?
It appears the grid was ok when people turned their lights back on, although I think someone may have already checked that...
Although you might have answered your own question by listening to the experts at hydro companies around the world who all said it would be fine.
The only con job here, are the dinosaurs who would have us believe that the things we do on the earth dont have a very negative impact on the environment. They also tend to say things like, well we'd all have to live in caves and hunt for fire...
There's your 'con job'...
T.O. hopes 1 million will take part in Earth Hour....how many actually took part? The Earth Hour home page signed up less than 300,00.
I will grant you that the number involved is not the measure of peoples concern about the environment but rather how many of those at Nathan Phillips Square drove to and from there in there SUVs and could be found filling up at the gas pump this morning.
Out here in the real world the majority found this to be a gimmick and the reality is if you are really concerned extend Earth Hour into Earth 24 Hour, Earth 7 Day, Earth Month........when YOU are prepared to do this get back to me.
See, this is precisely what's wrong with your thinking.
First. 300 thousand signed up. I didn't, nor did anyone I know. None of my friends, none of family, no one. Yet just about everyone I spoke to, took part. So, the 300 thousand that signed up, we just the people who went online, and signed up. A great deal of us, besides the people at Nathan Philips square that you are ranting about and seem convinced all used SUVs to get there, observed, and talked about it without ay SUVs, nothing. And that's just te part all you and your right wing ranting buddies refuse to see. All you seem to notice is what's online, what's in the news. But there is a real world out there Walter, beyond Mayor Miller and his antics at city hall.
And finally, you don't disappoint by announcing, that no one is allowed to have any say on the matter unless they are prepared to have earth hour every hour of their life.
Well that shows you clearly have missed the boat completely on earth hour. No one ever trumpeted earth hour as a solution, or anything of direct impact on the environment, save for the 8% reduction in electricity demand for that hour. But what it did do, is for some people, is make them think about the resources we use on a daily basis, and how each individual can do something to reduce it. And in one hour, there was a sense of solidarity that said a few lights on the part of each individual, resulted in a significant drop in usage.
I realize this all sounds a little touchy feely for a right winger likely, especially if you believe human activity couldn't possibly be to blame for environmental damage. But it's really just this simple.
I have not only been prepared to make changes, but I as well as many others have. No, we don't live in mud huts and talk through tin cans. Sorry.
Doth they protest too loudly?
The antics of you saviors of the world gets a little tiresome....you always get involved in the media event of the moment. I will bet you were right up front at the concerts to stop child poverty and hunger...how many children have died from malnutrition in the time it takes you to read this message. Post copies of your receipts from one of the world wide angencies that are in the field trying to reduce these deaths.
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