Earf Hour: Coda

The preceding video, in its way, calls attention to the sheer stupidity of Earth Hour and its adherents.

It's not about energy conservation or about the importance of preserving the planet's resources. It's about someone saying "Jump!" and idiots saying "How high?".

However harsh my conclusion is, it's true.

Why revert to a nineteenth century peasant lifestyle for one hour when one clearly lives in a highly advanced culture? We live in a world where technology allows one to communicate in a matter of seconds, to store and prepare food and just stay alive? And what happens after the designated dark hour? After that dreary hour, the lights go back on and everyone blogs about how "conscientious" they were. Way to stick it to imperialist technology! No, way to stick it to yourselves. Someone told you to turn off your house lights and you bought into the fiction. In the end, you think you've done something constructive but in fact you've wasted more time, energy and dignity than if you just said: "Forget this nonsense! I'm going to read a book with my lights on!"

Someone pointed out that North Korea experiences Earth Hour every night. Will someone applaud that?