Earth Hour 2010 @ 20:30

This just gets more and more ridiculous. I realise that most of the people saying that they'll deliberately turn on more lights than usual actually won't do anything at all, but the sentiment still annoys me.

I mean, you don't have to believe in AGW to realise that saving a bit of energy can only be a good thing.

I just don't understand the "hippy bashing" attitude that's so prevalent on here...
 
Rainmaker said:
My lights, PCs, TVs and all the rest will be running as usual. Until someone can definitively prove that climate change isn't the same old natural cycle it has always been, I won't do anything different.
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Saving energy is not just about stopping climate change. Why pollute the environment even more than we have to? Why dig up more resources than we have to?

The big problem I have with the media banging on about climate change is everyone has forgotten that the climate isn't the only thing that suffers when we are wasteful of resources. Worst still, as more and more people disbelieve the idea of climate change they suddenly think our actions are completely harmless to the planet.

There may or may not be any such thing as man-made climate change, but there is definitely man-made pollution. Turning off a few lights wont kill you and will have some positive impact - no matter how slight.
 
Millions of people around the world will be showing their support for human achievement by simply going about their daily lives. While earth hour activists will be left in the dark, Human Achievement Hour participants will be going to the cinema, enjoying a hot meal, driving their car or watching television.
 
Rainmaker said:
Never heard of the coal seam fires that run virtually perpetually, and completely naturally, in China and others, then? Volcanoes and hot springs also throw out a great many nasty chemicals via the same method day in and day out.
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Volcanoes and hot springs were around before humans existed. Power stations were not.

I reckon the campaign has worked brilliantly because it's all about raising awareness (not saving energy) and judging by the number of views to this thread it's done just that.
 
I will be participating in this event - my lights will be off.

Plasma tv's, PS3's, laptops and PC's are allowed to stay on though, right?
 
Oxy said:
Climate Change is a natural event. I won't bother, my power comes from Sizewell Nuclear Power station anyway so doesn't effect man made climate change.
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Might not be though, the power made by that power station will be pumped into the national grid, your power could be coming from a coal fired power station for all you know.

Unless you are directly connected to the power station or live in it.
 
p4radox said:
This just gets more and more ridiculous. I realise that most of the people saying that they'll deliberately turn on more lights than usual actually won't do anything at all, but the sentiment still annoys me.

I mean, you don't have to believe in AGW to realise that saving a bit of energy can only be a good thing.

I just don't understand the "hippy bashing" attitude that's so prevalent on here...
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For your backchat, i will be turning up the brightness on my TV and turning on my electric heater.
 
Tombstone said:
I blame Belinda Carlisle for telling us all to leave a light on 20 years ago
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:D


And I think some people are missing the point. This one event isn't meant to make a noticeable difference to CC, it's a stunt to try and tackle the problem of behaviour, which is the single biggest problem we have.

I don't see why people get worked up about this sort of thing, don't like it don't take part. I think it's good to get people thinking about issues of consumption, even though I don't think the primary reason for it should be anthropogenic climate change :)
 
Paraphasing George Carlin - isn't it arrogant to think we can save the planet when we can't even look after ourselves?
 
jp_bl_68 said:
Nope, those hippies can jog on.

Minute reductions in fossil fuel consumption are a stall at best.
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Wow, you show them!!! :rolleyes:

Pathetic really.



Its more the idea that counts, plus it might reduce the electricity bill by a few pence! People who don't believe that climate change is occurring are just as bad as those who don't believe in evolution.
 
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Klo said:
Its more the idea that counts, plus it might reduce the electricity bill by a few pence! People who don't believe that climate change is occurring are just as bad as those who don't believe in evolution.
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Turning your lights of isn't going to stop the climate changing, just like wishing on a star won't stop things evolving.

The climate changes always has always will.

Even if you remove humans it will still change it might just do it a little slower.


So say you manage to delay it by 10 years what then?
 
Instead of the climate change thing, they should just made it for reducing pollution. That's more agreeable.


Plus it's cool being in the dark. Might go on the PS3 and turn off the PC just to reduce the bills by a few quid. :v
 
The irony is most of the people taking Earth Hour seriously, pretending to be Captain Planet and lecturing about saving the planet will be straight back in their cars tomorrow.

 
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