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Envirofraud Cate Blanchett dodges Earth Hour:
The Sydney Theatre Company co-artistic director Cate Blanchett will do her bit on Saturday, with the performance of The Year Of Magical Thinking moved forward to 6.30pm. The 90-minute show, directed by Blanchett and starring former STC director Robyn Nevin, will be followed by a “candlelight” supper party at the wharf to celebrate the hour of environmental awareness.
As Local Oaf previously observed:
So all you have to do to be part of Earth Hour is to use all the energy earlier on, allowing you to be virtuous during the specified hour.
On that basis, I’ve been having my own personal Earth Hour every day for decades between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.!
UPDATE. Earth Hour defined: “Everyone turns their lights off for an hour and then turns them back on to see what was taken.”
Symbolism for envirotards (and their allies, lefties) comes down to empty, meaningless gestures, first, last, and always.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 25 at 01:54 AM • permalink#1 halberdier?
#2 Again clanging symbolism to drown out the opposition.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 25 at 02:00 AM • permalinkI notice that joining Cate Blanchett as a Novelty Enviro-Summiteer for Kev’s 2020 Circus “to come up with new policy ideas on the environment” is a 15 year old kid who was evidently the 2007 Sustainable Living Champion.
How does one become a Champion of Sustainable Living at the tender age of 14 or 15 anyway? And how does that qualify him to help determine Australia’s future policies? ...And on the tokenism front,
"After a storm of controversy over the failure to appoint more women as chairs of the committee, young women also outnumber young men in the list of 100 youth delegates."
Oh man, this whole thing is just so many kinds of silly…
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 03 25 at 02:49 AM • permalink#7 Indoctrination at work.
“The quality and diversity of the delegates will bring a fresh and innovative outlook to the task of improving our country’s future.”<i>
And Kate Ellis is serious, too. Dear o’ dear. It’d be funny if...<i>bingbing shakes head, rolls eyes and sighs
BTW, How in fuck does burning carbon-rich candles and raising carbon-spewing hot air balloons help make these wankers feel good about Gaia? As stated on Bolt’s: Tools.
come on people, i need ideas for Saturday night - how best to piss off the neighbours and use as much electricity as possible.
does anyone have a Batman spotlight lying around?
Posted by satisfiedmind16 on 2008 03 25 at 03:03 AM • permalink#6 #7 Thought you’d been messin’ with the Tardis again!
#8 I’ve been invited to an Earth Hour party, theme: “Let There Be Light.” Mein host claims to have bought out Bunnings’ remaining stock of fairy lights over the weekend.
One of those flatbed trucks with the big spotlights on the back that they use for movie premieres wouldn’t go astray, either. Might have to check the yellow pages.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 03 25 at 03:11 AM • permalink#5- Someone’s invite must have been “lost in the mail”; I’m amazed at how quickly the lunar left has thrown Kevvie out of the cot- we always thought he was a smug, supercillious, secretion-swallowing, slithering scrotum with a shit-eating grin, the left hate him, just who are his mates?
#9
Check out these bad boys.
Note you’ll need to forewarn the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, as they scare the crap out of pilots.
Actually, I’m thinking if a few of us chipped in a few bucks, we could light up the whole Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House and much of the CBD.
I was visiting a data centre today and noted a big “Earth Hour” poster in the foyer.
If they decide to shut down the power to that place, most of Australia’s financial system will grind to a halt, as will a good chunk of our telecommunications system. If I see the manager of the place, I’m going to dare him to pull the plug. “C’mon, I dare you. I double dare you.”
What a stupid frapping place to advertise earth hour. That place pulls more watts in an hour than Wagga on a hot night.
I wandered past a floor last year where they were doing heat load testing of the air conditioning prior to commissioning a new area. That consisted of putting 5 pallet loads of fan heaters on the floor and turning all of them up to 11.
Yes - 5 pallet loads of fan heaters. It was fan heaters as far as the eye could see, all crammed cheek by jowl.
Earth hour - pfft.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 03 25 at 03:42 AM • permalinkAs at 6:30pm AEDT, only 193,000 people globally have pledged to turn off their lights for Earth Hour. At midnight on January 31, 2007, 1.5 million people in Sydney watched the Sydney New Year fireworks display. Hundreds of millions more worldwide watched it on TV. Not looking good for Earth Hour.
To save it, they should stage a huge fireworks display and use that to urge people to turn off their lights. The pyrotechnics will be even brighter with the city’s lights off, the organisers can promise. They could whet people’s appetites for fireworks with one of those night-time air displays that are a feature of the biennial Avalon air show. The F-111 dump and burn looks mighty at night. And how about a huge searchlight and laser show, like a monster Pink Floyd concert spread right across the city.
I’d turn my lights off for all that!
#10 The Left are fantastic value when they start eating their own, aren’t they?
#11 Way cool! If someone over East where this whole thing seems to be being taken a little more seriously wants to rent one, I’ll happily chip in. I haven’t actually seen much being made of it over here, maybe because so many of us work in the 24/7 resources sector? It’s the **scare quotes** “Big Oil"/"Big Mining” ** scare quotes** influence.
Only real mention I’ve seen of it in The West Australian was a full-page Paul Murray OpEd on Saturday condemning it as a hypocritical stunt. Though the ABC is spruiking it pretty heavily.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 03 25 at 04:00 AM • permalinkI notice that Chairman Kev’s going to be overseas for Earth Hour. I’m sure he’ll still observe it though. With his luck he’ll be in Scores on Saturday night…
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 03 25 at 04:08 AM • permalinkSorry, I’ll try that again
http://rumcorps.net/rebellion/2008/03/25/finally-a-cause-i-can-believe-in/
@12 But will you triple dog dare him?
Meanwhile… Ms. Blanchett clearly does not know that the ‘carbon footprint’ of a standard candle is much greater than a 100W lightbulb. Burning coal to make electricity to light a bulb is actually far more efficient in producing light than burning wax in an open flame. It’s almost as bad as people who think they are being “green” when they use their fireplaces insteade of their gas furnaces.
Todd, you’ve done it now!!!
Mistress Andrea will be coming for you with her Punishment Plank!!!
For your crime, there is only one remedy!
#23 Todd, don’t be such a sooky-la-la.
With the rusty nails you’ll be able to put an entry on the Scar Talk thread.Todd. Basically you are rooted (screwed for our US cousins), what with Mistress Andrea and TWO senior Minionettes on your case.
As for scar talks, well, there’ll be a new definition. All the scars mentioned rolledin to one and quadrupled will pale into insignificance.... as people speak in hushed tones of ‘being Todded’.
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWCAfter reading the basis for the play, I’d certainly recommend putting it on at 3am. Amending the book review a little:
That Blanchett’s a pretty cool customer. Always intellectualizing disaster in order to deal with it. She’s regarded as sick because she is too clear-eyed - she sees the world as it is.
Instead of responding emotionally to Earth Hour she has intellectualised the exercise in order to keep the pain at bay. But this would be to misunderstand the emotional force and acuity of Blanchett’s intellectual insights, particularly her ability to observe and analyse her own carbon footprint with the same hyper-attentiveness that she applies to other people and social events. In effect, Blanchett puts herself on the couch in order to expose the workings of the no-emissions mind: the irrational or “magical” thinking characteristic of AG-warmenistas.#15. Spot, two things stand out in that article.
First, Kevvie’s going to NATO and wants them to take him seriously?
*snurkle snort cough*
Second, our mandarin-speaking PM will be meeting with top Chinese leaders.
That’s all well and good, but will he have an interpreter there and record the meetings?
I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in Kevni unless we’re talking about being sold off to one of our near neighbours.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 03 25 at 06:33 AM • permalinkOh God, I understand being fisked, even margoyled and my 2 year old little girl is disturbing fond of kevni’ing her ears, but I don’t want to be simply remembered as the origin of “Being Todded”!!! AAArrrgh!! Minionettes are bad enough, but I will never survive a ritual thrashing by the blog mistress herself.
Those for whom “Earth Hour” is more than an empty gesture could try:-
Getting out of bed at sunrise, and:-
Going to bed at sundown.Lights not needed ever again!
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2008 03 25 at 07:47 AM • permalinkI’ll be doing my part: on stage under several thousand watts’ worth of stage lights, Earth Hour ignored completely.
If these wankers are really serious about doing it for the earth they’ll do this.
#37 Are we sure Cate isn’t ordering all the lights to go out on the performance for an hour?
I have been to see a Robin Nevin play at the STC, that was probably the longest 8 hours in my life. Turning out the lights during the performance would be an act of mercy, turning them back on after an hour would be cruel and unusual.
“Everyone turns their lights off for an hour and then turns them back on to see what was taken.”
It’s the punchline to Benny Hill’s Thieves’ Ball as public policy…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 25 at 11:04 AM • permalinkIt just occured to me: Earth Hour is starting to remind me of the Asimov short story “Nightfall.” That’s the one where an entire civilzation responds to the lights going out by burning everything to keep the dark away.
I wouldn’t really expect a significant increase in the number of calls for the fire birgades, but....
Don’t worry, Todd—I have withheld the rusty-nail-studded paddle due to the excellence of the linked presentation. Must remember to mark Earth Wasting Day on my calendar…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 25 at 11:21 AM • permalinkI’m an American and being an American, I waste as naturally as I breathe, but being an American also means I know nothing about other countries so I’m confused about when, exactly, to turn on all my lights. Do you use the same clock we do or are you all metric or something?
Also, in case I’m not home, would running a Prius off the road with my extra-pollutionistical, V-8 powered, two tons of Detroit steel be acceptable?I feel like such a fraud: all my bulbs are CFLs (my line quality is so bad incandescents last three weeks). I’ll make sure to leave them on though, and do at least three loads of washing (the water is electrically heated). Try as I might I can’t get my electricity bill over $50 a month. I suppose I could set fire to some virgin rainforest if that would help.
Posted by David Gillies on 2008 03 25 at 05:52 PM • permalinkDavid—cut the end off an extension cord and set the loose ends just far enough apart to arc. That’ll run up the bill.
KIDS… DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. THIS TRICK IS BEST PERFORMED BY PROFESSIONAL IDIOTS.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 25 at 08:27 PM • permalink#46, Veeshir, "would running a Prius off the road with my extra-pollutionistical, V-8 powered, two tons of Detroit steel be acceptable?"
Yes perfectly acceptable.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 03 26 at 11:50 PM • permalink
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What a piker- I often find that my CO2 output is at its highest between 3 and 4AM, what with the bridged amps cranked to 11, the heatsinks putting out more radiant thermal energy than the cooling towers at Swanbank, every light left on, the fridge door left open, airconditioning running with nary a door or window closed and me sleeping through the lot of it. I’m surprised it hasn’t kicked up a notch either due to an unextinguished gasper smouldering away on the doona.