World cities begin big switch-off
Bacardi4206 @ Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:25 pm
It's obviously not going to make any impact at all for the envirement with only a hour of lights off and with so many people not even doing it. My neighbour still had his xmas lights setup and had them all on + his house lights.
Better than nothing I seriously doubt nobody would willing do 2 hours or more of earth hour.
Gunnair @ Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:47 pm
Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:
It's obviously not going to make any impact at all for the envirement with only a hour of lights off and with so many people not even doing it. My neighbour still had his xmas lights setup and had them all on + his house lights.
Better than nothing I seriously doubt nobody would willing do 2 hours or more of earth hour.
Better than nothing I seriously doubt nobody would willing do 2 hours or more of earth hour.
Well I did mine. Cozy fire and candlelights for an hour and board games by oil lamp.
Canadaka @ Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:39 pm
umm... yah its not meant to have a direct impact from turning off lights for an hour, It's to raise awareness.
We turned off our lights and went for a walk. Most of North Vancouver was still lite up though, i think there was very low participation in Vancouver from what I could see.
Wally_Sconce @ Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:19 am
if any of us turned off our flourest bulbs, and went for a drive in our V8 SUVs.....I think we got the wrong idea here. 
ShepherdsDog @ Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:00 am
Canadaka Canadaka:
umm... yah its not meant to have a direct impact from turning off lights for an hour, It's to raise awareness.
We turned off our lights and went for a walk. Most of North Vancouver was still lite up though, i think there was very low participation in Vancouver from what I could see.
We turned off our lights and went for a walk. Most of North Vancouver was still lite up though, i think there was very low participation in Vancouver from what I could see.
they were afraid of being caught in the dark and shot.
Zipperfish @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:52 pm
Canadaka Canadaka:
umm... yah its not meant to have a direct impact from turning off lights for an hour, It's to raise awareness.
We turned off our lights and went for a walk. Most of North Vancouver was still lite up though, i think there was very low participation in Vancouver from what I could see.
We turned off our lights and went for a walk. Most of North Vancouver was still lite up though, i think there was very low participation in Vancouver from what I could see.
I didn't know you were a North Van guy. Yeah, I didn't see too many lights off. Oh well, maybe it'll catch on.
I turned all my lights off except the 1000 W halide bulbs in the crawl space.
commanderkai @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:36 pm
How about this brilliant idea. Stop using shit you don't need. Turning off all the lights for an hour won't do shit if you will leave lights on during the day, or whenever else.
Raising awareness for some people is really just a cop out for not actually doing shit that might help
coaster_dot @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:47 pm
I forgot all about this...I think I had a lot of the lights on in my house during the time. I was at the Admirals hockey game. But I don't think Milwaukee participated in it at all.
Akhenaten @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:54 pm
The only real pollution on Earth is people.
There were 200000 people world wide in 1A.D.
We reached a billion sometime in the 1800's. Took 1800 years to gain 800000.
3 Billion in the beginning of the 1900's.
3 more billion in the following 100 years to make 6 billion. Each one of us producing 2-5kg of waste a day. Expanding our living space. Demanding good food.
In 25 years who knows....some say it'll double in that time. Reducing our carbon emissions by 10% or turning off our lights for one hour of one day doesn't do jack. Especially since the light bulb is way more efficient than anything that came before it (lantern etc). To a lot of people it's just a lame excuse to lord over this pretentious idea that they care and everyone else doesn't. Small price to pay for such smugdom.
If you really want to do something then dont have kids....or maybe become prez and nuke 5 billion of us out of existence.
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coaster_dot @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:01 pm
This whole thing reminds me of the movie "idiocracy".
Basically they were saying that the morons/hillbillies keep reproducing having kid after kid while the intelligent people wait to have kids and end up not having any. Basically having intelligence extinct leaving the county, or world, with morons.
It is kind of scary to think about. And I believe the 6 billion number is much larger now. It is also scary to think that half of the worlds population is in India and China.
Bodah @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:05 pm
Ah shit, that was this weekend ?
coaster_dot @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:07 pm
Bodah Bodah:
Ah shit, that was this weekend ?
...exactly, it really didn't have an impact
Zipperfish @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:07 pm
North Vancouver came first in BC last year wiht the drop for electricity demand, but we didn't even rate this year. First in BC was Pemberton with a drop of 4.6%. The BC average was 1.1%, well below the almost 2% of last year.
coaster_dot @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:10 pm
I think there could be a bigger impact with a "walk or bike to school/work day"...would do more for the environment.
Zipperfish @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:22 pm
coaster_dot coaster_dot:
This whole thing reminds me of the movie "idiocracy".
Basically they were saying that the morons/hillbillies keep reproducing having kid after kid while the intelligent people wait to have kids and end up not having any. Basically having intelligence extinct leaving the county, or world, with morons.
It is kind of scary to think about. And I believe the 6 billion number is much larger now. It is also scary to think that half of the worlds population is in India and China.
Basically they were saying that the morons/hillbillies keep reproducing having kid after kid while the intelligent people wait to have kids and end up not having any. Basically having intelligence extinct leaving the county, or world, with morons.
It is kind of scary to think about. And I believe the 6 billion number is much larger now. It is also scary to think that half of the worlds population is in India and China.
The dude that made that movie should have to pay all royalties to Cyril M. Kornbluth whop wrote "The Marching Morons" in 1951 about this exact subject.