Friday, March 28, 2008
NO REWARD WITHOUT EFFORT
India’s Economic Times reports:
It’s easy to poke fun at Sydney’s Earth Hour ...
True, but it still requires more work than actually observing Earth Hour - especially if you’re Cate Blanchett. (Note to the Economic Times: that quote should be credited to Contrail.)
UPDATE. We used to be able to push around the Chicago Tribune. Now they laugh at us:
The latest bright idea from the country that gave us “Crocodile Dundee” is to have everyone across the globe turn off their lights for an hour at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Apparently, a bunch of neo-Luddites in Sydney did this last year and it made them feel good about themselves, so they’ve decided to give the rest of the world a chance to achieve a similar sense of self-worth.
We’ve become an international pariah.