{"id":6256,"date":"2009-03-28T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/03\/so-its-almost-earth-hour-here.html"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T19:02:57","slug":"so-its-almost-earth-hour-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/03\/so-its-almost-earth-hour-here.html","title":{"rendered":"So, it’s almost Earth Hour here in NJ…"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we’ve turned on all the lights on early and plan to leave them on throughout Earth Hour. Why? Because we are sending the “clear message” that we don’t “want action on climate change<\/a>:”<\/p>\n

From an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and beyond, the world switched off the lights on Saturday for Earth Hour, dimming skyscrapers, city streets and some of the world’s most recognizable monuments for 60 minutes to highlight the threat of climate change.
\nTime zone by time zone, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries joined the event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund to dim nonessential lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
\n[…]
\nU.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon called Earth Hour “a way for the citizens of the world to send a clear message: They want action on climate change.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Besides I’ve lived through the 80’s “No Nuke” movement, so I kind of feel like I’ve been here before and not buying that anything will really change (we still have Nukes, don’t we?). It’s all just meaningless groupthink and herd mentality, I’m just not into being a sheeple. So, while the rest of the world feels good about their wasted effort, we plan to rebel against the idiocy of the gesture by using more energy than we normally would and sending the clear message: we don’t want our government raising our energy costs for a boondoggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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