Cancel Earth Hour. Let's Do Hour of Power Instead.
Cancel Earth Hour. Let's Do Hour of Power Instead.
The industrial revolution is worth celebrating
Did you turn your lights off at 8.30pm last night?
You didn’t? Why do you hate the earth so much? Climate criminal!
The United Nations was urging people around the world to observe Earth Hour by turning off their power appliances between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.
The idea is that we spend an hour sitting in the dark reflecting on nature, which, at that time of night, is just, well, really hard to see without lights.
The Earth Hour website enthused:
“This year, Earth Hour is at 8:30pm local time Saturday 25 March. We're inviting all Australians to sign up to take #TimeOutForNature and join the global community of millions supporting stronger action on climate change.”
How the ‘elites’ who fly to Davos in their private jets each year to discuss saving the planet must have laughed last night.
They jet set around the world, saying in fancy hotels and dining at five star restaurants to save the planet. The rest of us dutifully turn off our lights so we can sit in the dark and reflect.
It really sucks not being Bill Gates. Not really, but you know what I mean.
The Earth Hour website encourages people to …
“Make the time - whether it’s 60 seconds, 60 minutes or beyond the hour - to reflect on the incredible benefits nature provides us”.
So it’s not actually an hour of lights out. It can be 60 seconds if that’s more your thing.
Or you could just flick the flights off and on again. Trust me, it all makes a difference to global temperatures. You can almost feel the planet cool as you do it.
I flicked my lights off and on again twice, so as to lower global temperatures AND sea levels. I’m pretty committed to doing my bit for the environment.
Seriously, Earth Hour must be one of the greatest examples of useless Woke virtue signalling there is, and in a highly competitive field.
In truth, it’s less a reminder that we ought not use fossil fuels and more a foretaste of what the future looks like without them.
Here’s UN General Secretary Antonio “we’re on a highway to climate hell” Guterres getting all excited about all of us going dark.
I like the way the UN depict Antonio as if he is in outer space with the planet behind him, like he’s the boss of the earth.
“I invite you to switch off your lights,” he says.
Well good to know that - at this stage at least - it’s still voluntary!
“Millions of people in hundreds of cities around the world turn off the lights.”
Really? How many lights went out in China? Or India? Or Russia?
Nevermind. A lot of lights went out in Byron Bay, so the planet will breathe a big sigh of relief.
“It’s a call to make peace with nature,” Antonio reckons.
Seriously? I make peace with nature by switching off the light in my lounge. Could I just dim the lights and call it a truce?
“From the darkness, let us build a brighter and more sustainable future for everyone, everywhere,” he preaches.
What if I don’t want Antonio’s globalist future? What if I like civilisation?
The sooner the lights go out on the UN, the better it will be for everyone.
If I was elected Executive President Head Honcho of the Universe, I’d do a video encouraging everyone to celebrate Hour of Power.
We’d turn everything on and - for good measure - we’d spend the hour sitting in our cars in our driveways, revving our engines.
It would be an awesome celebration of the industrial revolution.
None of this “I invite you to turn off your lights” rubbish if I was in charge.
No. I’d be like …
“Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines …”
Thank you, James, for your en-light-ening comments. I wasn't aware of the encyclical from the UN department of religious deeds so did not turn off the lights as "urged"!
I wonder how many moths around the (Globe)'s died that night when all the lights went out in our attempt at making peace with Nature? Did their navigational systems suffer when the bright city and suburban lights suddenly disappeared? Did millions of moth's crash to earth in panic only to be swooped upon by voracious bats and other predators whose night vision suddenly lit up at the feast presented?
Sure we saved precious electricity garnished from wind and solar sources and stored away in our batteries. But what happened after observing the obligatory/voluntary genuflect to the god of the night? Everyone turned on the lights again and an almighty surge through the power grid blew up appliances everywhere causing another power outage! The battery supply was instantly depleted, and everyone had to go to bed early due to there being no more lights. (This could be the scenario when all coal fired power stations are gone, and renewables are our saviors....at least until the next day, supposing nothing serious happens overnight.)
So keep the home lights burning, give the moths a chance, and as the privileged few jet off to another conference, give them a stunning view from space of the peasants wasting precious resources but having a good time doing it.
And so says ÀLL of US James..👏👏👏
UN has to go!!👏👏