Earth Hour

[SerenityM]

Let me put it this way, it is likely places like the city of new york is participating by shutting off places like the empire state building, based off the video clip, other major light up attractions shut down as well in monument to this. This and millions participated last year on a worldwide scale, this has to save thousands.

Yes, thousands of dollars. What does that do to prevent global warming? Sorry if I'm seeming like a dick here, I just legitimately want to understand it, since saving money is not the goal of this event, and that seems to be all its doing. Useful, yes, but not its point.

Unfortuantly money is the best reason to get those who don't believe in global warming to do it. I meant thousands of the energy power system, I dn't remember what tis called, there's a g somewhere in the abbreviation. And if nothing else, we should probably not go thorugh our gas feul so fast after our scare reciently. If we don't want to see it go up in our golden years we can do this now.

 

[SerenityM]

Why don't we have earth hour every month if it works so good?

People are far more likely to respond to something they have to do less often. Everytime someone asks someone to do something everytime they do x, they're less likely to do it cause ti is harder to change a habit, a once a year thing treats it more like a fun holiday.

Use the edit button. I'm not yelling at you, but someone else probably will. I'll probably do the Earth Hour bit if I remember.

It's true though, I don't turn off my running water because I sue hot water and need ti to heat up as I am brushing because that's how I clean it, if someone told me to change to not allow the water to run, I'd ahve to swithc to cold and change my habit, I wouldn't do it, cold water is't as effective in my opinion.

No, I mean, you keep triple-posting. Use the edit button and include all of your points against multiple people in one post.

Oh, lol, I just think it's more organised this way, that way it's easier to jsut quote, quote, quote, quote, quote.

 

[chuckman1]

I'll probably do it unless it's to hot.

 

[SerenityM]

I'll probably do it unless it's to hot.

It's about turning off lights, not ac, if anything it'll cool your house.

 

[SerenityM]

Yeah, but people will see it as post padding/spamming and will probably report you for it.
Anyway, quoting someone, responding, then quoting someone else and responding works well.
Trust me.

Spamming is doign stuff like bumping bumps every 5 mineuts. I am actually having conversations with everyone.

 

[Raven's Nest]

Then if i were you, I'd do it for the money you save on having your lights and anythign else you want off for that hour.

Lol, I do live by myself so saving money is always nice, but it seems futile when the actual act of switching off the lights will have no effect on climate change whatsoever. It's such a token gesture.

Agreed.

Besides, I'm afraid of the dark.

There's always candles, cheaper then an hour of lights and relaxing.

Candles? But I'm not allowed to play with matches anymore...

I'll stick to my electricity thank you.

If we have to suffer without lights then why not go further and encourage people to switch off their TV's and read or interact with their offspring. Or simply stop drinking hot drinks so that we don't overfill our kettles?

I'm sick of global warming issues being forced down our throats all day long. From green taxes on our vehicles to seing Al Gore using dramatic music in his films to make me think the world is going to die and that we only have one hour to save it.

 

[rottenbutter]

So it's some kind of election thing where we leave are lights on if we want global warming, and turn them off if we don't? Well, I'll be sure leave my lights on. It too frickin' cold here.

Joking aside, I don't really care, but my lights are usually off anyway, so I guess I'll technically be participating.

 

[JWAN]

the funny part about earth hour it is it causes more damage to the environment than it does good

simply because it stresses the electrical grid because everyone turns on all the lights they had on before, see the simpler thing is to not turn on lights when you don't have to or use those nice low wattage bulbs

unfortunately the filaments in the bulb are worse than using a regular 60 watt bulb anyway

 

[Hman121]

I just signed up. I hope I don't forget.

 

[SerenityM]

Candles? But I'm not allowed to play with matches anymore...

I'll stick to my electricity thank you.

If we have to suffer without lights then why not go further and encourage people to switch off their TV's and read or interact with their offspring. Or simply stop drinking hot drinks so that we don't overfill our kettles?

I'm sick of global warming issues being forced down our throats all day long. From green taxes on our vehicles to seing Al Gore using dramatic music in his films to make me think the world is going to die and that we only have one hour to save it.

Suffer? After the first 15 mineuts, you're eyes start going into a night vision mode, it's cool.

 

[FarleShadow]

Retarded. Instead of environmentalists trying to 'increase awareness' (As if anyone from this decade doesn't already know about this shit), they should be trying to work in an 'environmentalist to ordinary person' angle.

Here's an example:

Enviro: "This light is efficient over normal ones and is good for the environment! STOP GLOBAL WARMING!"
Ordinary person: "I could give a shit"

Instead of

Enviro: "This light costs 2 dollars more, but saves you 25 dollars because it consumes less power"
Ordinary Person: "25 dollars?! That's 25 dollar cheeseburgers! Sign me up!"

See what I mean?

 

[SerenityM]

Retarded. Instead of environmentalists trying to 'increase awareness' (As if anyone from this decade doesn't already know about this shit), they should be trying to work in an 'environmentalist to ordinary person' angle.

Here's an example:

Enviro: "This light is efficient over normal ones and is good for the environment! STOP GLOBAL WARMING!"
Ordinary person: "I could give a shit"

Instead of

Enviro: "This light costs 2 dollars more, but saves you 25 dollars because it consumes less power"
Ordinary Person: "25 dollars?! That's 25 dollar cheeseburgers! Sign me up!"

See what I mean?

How is this jsut an increase awareness, I gave at least two reasons why this works. Like the whole we need to burn gas to make electrisity so it saves us gas so we can make it last until we find something better by considerving? The amount of gwatz (i think it is) we save would be in the millions. It saves probably $15 for an hour without lights?

 

[SerenityM]

Am I the only person who is going to turn on/plug in every electric device for that hour?

Probably, enjoy the bill afterwords.

That is if you don't end up having a burnt fuse, and it forces you to have every single electronic off for the hour and more.

 

[Goldbling]

I don't believe in global warming (or to be more specific, I don't believe humanity is the cause of said warming, there's been many temperature fluctuations in our planet in it's history without humanity contributing one bit, and people forget we were in an ice age 30,000 years or so ago) so I won't be turning any lights off for Earth Hour.

Agreed, Theres alot of proof either prooving it or disproving it, now its just about taking a side

 

[SerenityM]

-_- because an hour of use is SO expensive.
Sorry I'm not a broke hippie.

Yes, and you're also not a lovely person and not not a troll. Everything adds up, hour of every light in the house $12, every tv in a house hold, $18, every energy waster that has the retarded off confirmation light on (like it isn't just easier to see that no loght means it's off) $9, laptop/computer $15, dishwasher, $12, washer and dryer $19, well, I don't think I have to go further as that already hypotheticaly would add up to over $75, enjoy.