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December 07, 2006
Shut it down, turn it off, and give the world a break!
Via Tim Blair, here's something to ponder -- a no environmental footprint weekend: On Friday December 8 at 8pm, turn off your house electricity. Switch off your gas hot water heater. Put your car keys away. Switch off your mobile and any other battery-powered devices, and unplug your landline phones. Don't step foot into any powered site, shop, house or building. You can, however, use public transport, buy ice and use beeswax or soy candles, which aren't made from petroleum.According to the promoters of the idea, we're all guilty of Global Warming. Every time we watch TV, cook dinner, take a hot shower, use the computer, turn on the lights, air conditioner or heater, we're emitting greenhouse gases. Every time we drive our cars, charge our mobile phones, mow the lawns, we're contributing to global warming and speeding up climate change. We all kind of know this don't we?What? I can't use my computer? I guess I am heating up the planet one post at a time. Hmmm..... But doesn't this mean the websites that support the shutdown going to be shut down too? Maybe some good will come of this. posted by Eric on 12.07.06 at 02:37 PM
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Baalooney! Since when did the burning of beeswax/soy candles NOT contribute to atmospheric CO2? Wake up you global-warming dimwits! Mescalero · December 7, 2006 10:41 PM Turn off your heat ... in the winter ... I wonder how long they thought about this. It IS below freezing out there now. Anonymous · December 8, 2006 08:22 AM Last night at 11:55 I grabbed the remote to turn off the TV, pressed the little button, and the TV turned off. But not only the TV, but my clock, as well. The furnace, the patio lights, and everything else shut off, right at that very instant. It turned out to be a city-wide power outage lasting about four hours, coinciding with the instant I turned off my TV. I think it was a coincidence, anyway. I spent a good portion of the next four hours alternately worrying helplessly about the water pipes freezing and letting it go, drifting off to sleep in the rapidly cooling bedroom, only to reawaken to the thought of how cold it was getting. I don't think I'll be participating in the Global Warming and Mankind Is A Cancer Awareness Festival, thank you very much. Socrates · December 8, 2006 03:01 PM Whoops, jokes on us. Its in Astralia. Mick · December 9, 2006 01:03 AM And Australia too! Mick · December 9, 2006 01:03 AM You can, however, use public transport"Who needs oil? We take the bus!" Public transport never pollutes the environment because only bad people - like RepubliKKKan$- can do bad things. We all kind of know this don't we? (/sarc) Kidding aside, this "big switch off" sounds rather like Shabbas in an Orthodox Jewish household. They've even timed the switchoff to coincide with dusk on Friday. How typical of "activists" that they should make an enormous fuss about doing once what other people do regularly and without comment. xj · December 9, 2006 08:23 AM |
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Pure genius! Lets all shut off our heat in 18 degree weather!