The following article is by Bryan Fischer, Executive Director of the Idaho Values Alliance. The charts referenced can be found at www.idahovaluesalliance.org.
You may have heard that our environmentalist friends, the ones who have not had the privilege of reviewing the scientific charts above, intend to celebrate “Earth Hour” this Saturday night from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., saving the earth by taking a one-hour trip back to the Stone Age by switching off their lights.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has suggested that we take the occasion to celebrate “Human Achievement Hour” at the same time, by, well, leaving the lights on. Go ahead, says the CEI, and go out to dinner, watch a movie, take a drive, keep the thermostat at a comfortable level, or attend a concert or a play.
Says the CEI, “We have no problem with an individual (or group)” that wants to “sit naked in the dark, turn off the heat, and breathe as little as possible,” but, CEI adds, that doesn’t have to stop the rest of us from enjoying the fruit of human progress while they turn back the clock.
Perhaps in honor of “Human Achievement Hour,” during that hour busses will continue to run, planes will continue to land, restaurants will remain open, hospitals will continue to keep emergency rooms open, Wal-Marts and Targets will be open, and theaters will continue to show movies.
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I find this post, and the IVA, in incredibly poor taste and an insult to intelligence. Wish I could expand, but I’ll take the road of discretion.
I guess my question is what difference would have been made if I had shut my lights off for an hour on Saturday. Seems pretty damn silly to me.
I went out and hugged a tree today, I feel so much better.
People will always find a way to rebel, even against the rebellion, and in this case, what’s the harm.
If you feel better turning off the power for an hour, by all means do it. If you don’t want to, don’t. Giggle at how you either helped the movement and are better than everyone else, or didn’t help and thumbed your nose at those “silly tree huggers”.
Or, just be like me and and have the whole thing slip your mind and read about it the next day… another missed chance to make an imaginary difference, one way or the other… darn…
Alice, I agree. Chances are, unless you are totally devoted to the movement of turning everything off, you will completely forget about it, and then say, oops! I guess I miissed it.
If you really want to help out the cause, chances are you are allready doing it. Good for you. And for those who aren’t, be kind and say congratulations to those who do.
What the author of this article was suggesting was not to be kind and congratulate those who care about the environment. Quite the contrary. They are only trying to attack those who disagree with them. Nothing positive about that.
Their “antidote” makes about as much sense as mocking the new pharmacist law by having an abortion.