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Behold, the planet’s ultimate ecowarrior:
Pat Mascarin wants to be in the dark. She’s so keen to observe Earth Hour, she might forgo electricity for two hours, twice as long as the rest of the world.
Talk about dedication! But last year Ms Mascarin was hailed as one of her town’s “brightest lights” for volunteering at a festival with a slightly different message:
The Winter Festival of Lights would never take place if it wasn’t for the dedicated work of volunteers, says general manager Dino Fazio ...
Fazio said this is going to be a big year and people will really take notice. Many of the plans will be unveiled over the next few months and the focus will continue to be on more lights and displays.
Stop all coal power generation now.
Kill all kangaroos for meat.
Cut down all the forests for firewood.
Kill all whales for oil for lamps and whale meat to supplement kangaroo meat.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 20 at 11:30 PM • permalinkShe’s so keen to observe Earth Hour, she might forgo electricity for two hours, twice as long as the rest of the world.
Fine. I’ll tell my wife we’ve got to go to bed two hours early, and we’ll have sex to save the planet. I’m a f***ing eco-hero.
Don’t know what we’ll do for the other hour and fifty-eight minutes, though.
Does this mean the progressive types cant recharge their electric cars?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 03 21 at 02:01 AM • permalinkThe idea began last year in Sydney, Australia, where 2.2 million people shut off their lights for an hour. It reduced power consumption by 10 per cent.
And this year 163,000 people, globally, (8.15pm AEDT) have signed on, according to earthhour.org. Leaves you wondering about the veracity of 2.2 million claimed for Sydney alone in 2007, a figure which came from the SMH.
The 10% power cut figure is also shonky. That was for the CBD alone, not for the parts of Sydney where the 2.2 million “darkies” live. The power drop for the rest of Sydney was insignificant. Don’t know what it was but had been measureable the SMH and its ugly sister, the Sun-Herald, would have reported it. They didn’t.
We also turn our lights off when we go to bed. Of course every appliance in the house has an LED light that stays on, and the new TV still draws power continually, and the hot tub keeps heating, as does the water heater, and the water softenener kicks on about 2AM, and if it’s cold, the furnace is heating, or if it’s too hot, the central air is cooling, and…
I think I could give Al Gore a run for his money. If he lived in a single, normal house, that is.
They’re going to save the world… but they have the memory span of goldfish.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 21 at 10:59 AM • permalinkEcowarriors, ecotherapists, eco retailer...darn! They get all the neat titles!
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 21 at 04:52 PM • permalinkIf they were serious, they’d start by turning off the Falls.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 03 21 at 07:09 PM • permalink
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Imbecile.
These people have no idea how the power supply system works. Base load and so on. I think they think that the power station shuts down when they turn their i-pods off for that hour. Clueless. Totally clueless.