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An email from Tim Costello to World Vision Australia staff:
Dear Colleagues,
This weekend the world is observing Earth Hour. This is a global climate change initiative run by WWF which calls on individuals and businesses around the world to turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday March 29 2008 between 8pm and 9pm. However as most staff will not be at work during this time, we have decided to promote the hour at work on Friday 28 March between 12pm - 1pm ...
In order to add some fun to this event, some members of the Sustainability Committee will be walking around the building during this time on Friday with black balloons. State Offices will also have their own ‘Earth Hour police’. Any staff who have left their desks for lunch and have not turned off their computers and monitors will have a black balloon attached to their desk.
Green Team! Green Team! Green Team!
UPDATE. Dave returned to his office Monday to discover he’d left a computer on all weekend ...
He was taken from his place of employment that afternoon.
UPDATE II. Convicted diablos del brillo (power wasters, or, literally, “brightness devils”) are paraded in the streets.
UPDATE III. An empty interrogation room bears mute testimony to Earth Hour Police efficiency.
Bollocks, *October 26*, i was thinking about last years earth day…
Black balloons? Why not get them to wear a little yellow star?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 03 26 at 10:56 PM • permalinkPersistant non compliant wokers will be shot with a carbon friendly bow and arrow.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 26 at 11:05 PM • permalinkIf World Vision supports Earth Hour they might as well shut up shop. The majority of the world lives like that permanently. Job well done!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 26 at 11:11 PM • permalinkLast bight Channel 9 said they support Earth Hour. Mrs Razor, who is not particularly politically aware or motivated went off - it was beautiful. We will be out on Saturday night, but the Razor home is going to be fully lit, plasma screen with surround system left on, washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, 2 x aircon all running.
I was wondering how to explain to her when I started turning on everything before going out on Saturday Night.
Grandma and Grandpa Razor will be babysitting, but they can’t actually work out how anything works so they’ll just be left watching the Bill - loud enough for Grandpa Razor to hear easily.
Latest news is that black balloons with Tim Costello attached last seen heading south.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 27 at 12:12 AM • permalinkHow about if Earth Power guerillas go around to offices where people have turned off lights and computers and stretch some of these over the doorknobs?
#16
99 red balloons floating in the summer sky.
Nena enough?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 27 at 12:23 AM • permalinkHe looks like he’s being attacked by an interplanetary force of black olives. Don’t try shooting them—they’re immune to bullets!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 27 at 12:58 AM • permalinkTim , Chief Executive of World Vision Australia, does a fantastic job, he must do because his Board of Directors have increased his annual remuneration package from A$194,104 in 2006 to A$251,545 in 2007 (World Vision Annual Statements & Accounts for the year ending 30 September 2007), just a smidgen shy of his brother’s A$270,00 or so, when Treasurer of Australia.
#20 Tim Costello is a leading opponent of the theory of prosperity gospel which holds that authentic religious belief will lead to material prosperity. He became a man of religion. He then acquired exceptional material prosperity. The theory holds true for him unless his religious belief is not authentic.
“So their idea of fun is roleplaying a proto-police state and the public shaming of dissenters? That’s certainly reassuring.”
PW, It sure is a really short step from Point A) a voluntary group activity designed (in theory) to encourage people to save energy to Point B) a liberal fascist police state where a small group of true believers tries to enforce their will on everyone else, isn’t it?
That’s what’s wrong with these people. The whole climate change thing is the excuse, not the reason. Their natural inclination is to go around and tell or force everyone else to live exactly how they think they should live. They jump at every opportunity to do so, including Earth Hour.
Although I think it’s basically hooey, at its best Earth Hour could be a way to bring people together voluntarily, to inspire them, to motivate them and to persuade them. Think the environmental version of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech.
But when, seemingly seconds after the idea comes up, you have a whole self-selected crowd of people figuring out how to force others to participate, how to shame them, or, quite literally in some cases, planning to simply cut off their electricity by fiat, then you have a serious problem with your “I have a dream” moment. That’s hardly going to win people to your side in the long run. Being a bully doesn’t persuade anyone, but apparently these people are too stupid to realize that. Or, more likely, they just can’t help themselves - because that’s who they are.
Sustainability Committee left a window open... Take two.
The less-bright Costello doesn’t trust his people to get with the programme unsupervised. If I was a subordinate I’d go along with Friday’s frolics and then crank every electrical appliance at home to the max for the weekend.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 27 at 04:23 AM • permalinkO/T, but I just received this via email.
Can anyone advise whether it’s an accurate statement of the facts?It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 and each can also
get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2,470.00.
A single pensioner who, after contributing to the growth and development of Australia for 40 to 50 years, receives only a monthly
maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!
Let’s send this to all Australians so we can all be ticked off and maybe we can get the refugees cut back to $1,012.00 and the
pensioners up to $2,470.00 and enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 years.
Please forward to every Australian to expose what our politicians are doing - to the over-taxed Australian.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 27 at 04:51 AM • permalinkThis mob are straight out of “The floggings will continue until morale improves” school of attitude adjustment.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 27 at 04:59 AM • permalink#11 (Mehaul)—
That was exactly my first thought! Morons, you’re using OIL BASED PRODUCTS thoughtlessly!! The energy wasted in having a computer on all weekend is nothing compared to the Gaia-rape committed by the Power Nazis and their balloon-based shenanigans!
They’re making Gaia cry! Make it stop!
(Based on personal balloon-based shenanigans, I estimate 55 black balloons, so you Nena lovers, modify your lyrics!)
Is it just me or is Garnaut sounding a little bit like hes hedging his bets on the science in this article?
He conceded there are “large uncertainties” surrounding the science of climate change.But then says because something might be happening we should live in grass huts and eat bugs anyway?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 27 at 06:45 AM • permalinkWell if its good enough for Kate Blanchett…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 27 at 06:52 AM • permalink#32- It’s pretty convincing, but unfortunately it’s a viral that’s been floating around for years, originating in th US. Media Watch used it to belt the Cairns Post about the head a few weeks ago- best to delete it and inform the sender; while there are certain benefits given to refugees that OAPs don’t get, it’s best to use correct data to argue a case rather than rely on something which is easily and demonstably incorrect.
I usually find my argument that by dismantling the welfare state and thus virtually eliminating taxation, families can sling their ageing rellos a quid and donate to charities who actually do something for those who deserve help, cutting out swathes of shiny-arsed lickspittles in government and booting Rev Tim out of his quarter mill a year earner, shuts up the whiniest rent-seeker, unless their family hates them and they’re complete arseholes- then they’re really in trouble.
An empty interrogation room bears mute testimony to Earth Hour Police efficiency.
Eventually the floating black balloons of the interrogation room evolved into something more sinister.
[i…the reason I’m aware of this fact perhaps more than the typical person is that I often attend anti-war rallies, which is where communists really come out of the woodwork. In fact, not only are many of the people at these rallies up-front communists, but the rally organizers—groups like ANSWER and World Can’t Wait—are themselves communist organizations. I’d even go so far as to venture that the entire anti-war protest movement has been completely taken over by communists.
I’d venture to say that the environmental “green” movement has been, as well.
#47, That quote was taken from Zombietime, btw.
How much energy is used in the manufacture of the black balloons? How much carbon dioxide?
In the inflation? (Energy and carbon dioxide)
Do the police do their work in the dark?
For the balloons filled with Helium, how much does the gas cost in energy and carbon dioxide?
Who does the work the police ought to be doing? How much does the duplication cost?
Posted by Larry Sheldon on 2008 03 27 at 01:20 PM • permalinkI love balloons, but they’re hardly biodegradable.
Couldn’t they find any made of potato starch?
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 28 at 03:08 AM • permalink
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So the time is optional then? I hereby select 2-3am on October 28.
Who said daylight saving was totally useless?