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Last updated on May 20th, 2017 at 10:00 am
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.
Have you seen the commerical where the Cavemen characters mock the ill-fated TV series based on the commercials? Too funny.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 28 at 12:42 PM • permalink
reposting here because it seems appropriate
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 03 28 at 12:51 PM • permalink
BUAWHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Thanks, COL Milquetoast!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 28 at 01:01 PM • permalink
We’ve become an international pariah.
That Rudd has acted so unilaterally! You’ve spoiled the World’s goodwill!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 03 28 at 01:27 PM • permalink
Tim, here in Canada, the usual culprits (as always, heavily centred in Toronto and Vancouver) are already crowing about the coming Hour o’ Darkness in our dear Dominion.
For my part, out here in the decidedly “non-progressive” Ottawa Valley countryside (home to farmers, hunters, snowmobilers, ATVers and other unreconstructed real human beings who still have the necessary skills to use a rifle, a compass and an axe), I intend to do the following:
1. Go for a long drive around all the back roads and trails in my 4WD.
2. Test my back-up generator system for an hour during Earth Hour – thus not only generating power and light but also needlessly consuming precious hydrocarbons (bonus!).
3. Fire up my BBQ and enjoy some prime Alberta steaks accompanied by a bottle of Penfolds Cab Sauv.*
* In honour of you and all the real ANZACs out there! Pip! Pip! For the Empire!
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2008 03 28 at 01:30 PM • permalink
“We’ve become an international pariah.”
There you go, irritating your allies again!
You must be a Republican. Or worse…Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 03 28 at 01:31 PM • permalink
Candlemaker Cate Burton …For her, it’s not really about ecology. “Earth Hour is all about stepping back from modern life and remembering the things that are important….
Like horse and buggies, outhouses (1 page of that catalog, please), telegraphs, wood burning stoves, etc? Oh, she meant company. Glad she made that clear. But she is right that everyone looks better in candlelight.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 28 at 03:03 PM • permalink
#4 Guess Peta doesn’t know about this. Funny stuff, Colonel! Thanks!
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 28 at 03:05 PM • permalink
- #11
Don’t forget the sani-man (search for night soil).(That’s a really interesting article. What did the Romans ever do for us?)
#10 Mr. Bingley, when you spot Ruddles backtrack on some wildly stupid statement or the other, remember you have the word: Neo-Ruddism
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 28 at 07:47 PM • permalink
- #14 10kae
The Romans gave us lead plumbing.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 28 at 08:21 PM • permalink
It does seem strange that people in such a big country would think so small.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2008 03 28 at 09:55 PM • permalink
It’s easy to poke fun at Sydney’s Earth Hour …
“So easy a caveman can do it.”
(Reference to an American insurance commercial)