Tonight between 8:30 and 9:30 pm tonight, leave a light on and celebrate “Human Achievement Hour“.
Ironically, I will be at a theater during this time where many lights will shine brightly during the show.
My vote is for human achievement and against poor environmental judgment. I’ll be sure to leave the porch light on when we leave for the show.
Beginning at 8:30 I have plans to start up the dishwasher, washing machine and dryer. I’ll be very busy in all over the house, thus lights must be ablaze. I’ll vacuum while listening to Hooray for Earth, Wild Light bands and opera on my Ipod, every once in a while taking a break to check my email on the Mac. The husband will be the basement (with lights on) practicing a new song on his keyboard following along with his music on the computer. I think I shall do some baking and heat up a snack in the microwave. The heat is still on in these parts (New England in March). Not much of a TV watcher, but I’ll leave it on tonight incase I come across something interesting.
Meanwhile at her house the daughter will be sewing up a storm on her sewing machine while listening to her music on her CD player, while checking email and facebook. She’ll probably make some tea and keeping track of her dinner. The son might be kicking up the watts with his band (that also features a light show) in bar that has a gigantic flashing neon sign out front.
This “Human Achievement Hour“ celebration is gonna rock!
@kasper: I plan on doing all that and repeating it tomorrow at 8:00pm also. Individualism is alive! Who is John Galt?
Leave all your lights on, especially if you work in an office building that is trying to play for the politically correct crowd. I have friends in the Empire State who will leave their office lights on as a protest against this socialist antiamerican hoax.
Also, put some grillings to good work during 8:30 -9:30 pm tonight. Don’t just leave on the lights, but make sum global warming critters carbon crust and emit some powerful greenhouse gasses to keep us warm and toasty. This has been the coldest winter in some time, so time’s a wasting to reverse this trend with our friend Carbon 12 and dioxide Carbon.
BTW this photo is what the libtards and democraps would have out country become in the name of their environmental paganistic beliefs:
http://www.websitewarehouse.com/rsc/korea_lights_lg.jpg
And I thought I was the only stalwart civilized person out there turning on every light and every appliance they own!
Heck, I may even open the balcony doors and turn up the furnace!
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
Haha, I’m going to be glued to my television screen while simultaneously surfing the web. My desktop computer’s also going to be on, as it always is. I’m sorry, but we’re human beings in this house, and we need to LIVE. I’m not turning off anything for an hour while I’m supposed to be cooking and enjoying dinner with my family. I’ll turn the lights off when I’m dead.
We’re disabled/retired, and have to watch pennies closely. But we’re in a rural area on an old horse farm which is highly visible in both directions along the thruway, so I compromised. Promptly half way, at 9PM, I went around and turned all lights on, inside and outside. With homes being approximately 1/8 to 1/4 mile apart, we were the only ones lit up like a Christmas tree, but I had a huge grin on my face for half an hour as I watched out the window as traffic drove by and slowed down to rubberneck. Hopefully most of those who were passing by also had a grin on their faces! Around here in the upper midwest, people tend to be fairly independent.
🙂 I was out but my home was well lit. I live in a big city did not notice any light going out
After everyone savors his or her adolescent defiance of liberal and scientific advice, I hope that you come to reason and conduct yourselves as mature stewards of the earth’s environment.
Stewardship, like conservation, has the added weight of evidence based reasoning and decision making in regards to environmental policy.
The Kyoto Agreement makes no such advances in that direction, neither does turning off a light for an hour.
Skye,
Turning off a light for an hour is purely symbolic, as you know. It’s a reminder to be prudent in our use of energy.
Symbolic? “reminder to be prudent”???
Alan, can you actually be that naive?
The environmentalists have used the event to proclaim the participation was tandamount to a mandate to act on global warming. So perhaps, to you it was symbolic. To them, it was an unofficial poll that needs to translate to int’l policy.
Meanwhile, it appears the guru of global warming, algore, left some inside lights burning in his mansion.
Did you really need a whole other thread on the same issue? Just a thought, I am often (and rightly I might add) reminded that this isn’t my site and I can go elsewhere.
Isn’t the choice to conserve natural resources as much a human achievement as the choice to consume them. Remember that envirowacko tree-huggin Republican Theodore Roosevelt.
A little example. To create SUVs the US automakers slapped fancy bodies on truck frames. Very little engineering, whole lotta marketing. To make the Prius, whether you like it, think it looks cool, or want to buy one (I don’t care), took some actually research, design and engineering. That looks a whole lot more like human achievement.
MataHarley:
Evil environmentalists may be conspiring this very moment to light the world with vegan candles and enclose our feet in clay shoes for all I know. I’m just asking you and other FA posters not to waste energy.