Earth Hour March 23, 2013

[Walter]

I'll be sure to have all my lights on tomorrow.

The whole idea of Earth Day is not too bright | Full Comment | National Post

Earth Hour hurts the Earth - Washington DC SCOTUS | Examiner.com

Earth Hour increases emissions: Claim | News.com.au

Earth Hour is all wrong. We need more electricity, not less. - Slate Magazine

 

[captain morgan]

Not so much support on this anymore, eh?

Looks like it's time for the various lobby groups to find a new cause

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I agree with Walter. I'm gonna dump a couple of barrels of used motor oil into the stream to celebrate Earth Day.

 

[captain morgan]

I agree with Walter. I'm gonna dump a couple of barrels of used motor oil into the stream to celebrate Earth Day.

Global media coverage (of course; air travel, vehicles with 1 or 2 passengers to get to the venue and lots of hotel rooms), massive energy spent on networks, satellite uplinks and 100's of millions turning on the TV to watch the festivities ain't exactly eco-friendly.

Might as well dump some tranny fluid into te nearby creek for all the good that this circus will provide

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Global media coverage (of course; air travel, vehicles with 1 or 2 passengers to get to the venue and lots of hotel rooms), massive energy spent on networks, satellite uplinks and 100's of millions turning on the TV to watch the festivities ain't exactly eco-friendly.

Might as well dump some tranny fluid into te nearby creek for all the good that this circus will provide

Yeah, I know, it's a great way to marginalise and try to silence people working for better environmental policies. Basically, you set up the fallacious premise that anyone who is using any more energy than needed to stay alive (or any energy at all) is a hypocrite if she advocates better environmental policy. It's just argumentum ad hominem again.

 

[Walter]

I agree with Walter. I'm gonna dump a couple of barrels of used motor oil into the stream to celebrate Earth Day.

Earth Day is April 22, also V. I. Lenin's birthday. I'll prolly be planting peas and radishes if the frost is out of the ground.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Thank you. Wouldn't do to dump all them good hydrocarbons in the stream on the wrong day.

 

[taxslave]

Right now I am in a camp within pissing distance of Alcan's generating station. Doubt too many lights will be turned off here.

 

[captain morgan]

Yeah, I know, it's a great way to marginalise and try to silence people working for better environmental policies.

So.. No tangible rebuttal so the next best thing is to whine that you're being 'silenced'.

BTW - the movement marginalized themselves the moment that they fabricated data and engaged in a program of misleading the public

Basically, you set up the fallacious premise that anyone who is using any more energy than needed to stay alive (or any energy at all) is a hypocrite if she advocates better environmental policy. It's just argumentum ad hominem again.

What is the enviro policy of the Earth Day people?.. Something like, developed countries = bad; therefore, transfer money to undeveloped nations?

Yeah - that'll heal ole Mother Gaia

Right now I am in a camp within pissing distance of Alcan's generating station. Doubt too many lights will be turned off here.

Stop silencing TB here...

You should be ashamed that you are marginalizing the movement

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

So.. No tangible rebuttal so the next best thing is to whine that you're being 'silenced'.

I'm not being silenced. I don't do the "Earth hour" thing. But assume anything you like.

BTW - the movement marginalized themselves the moment that they fabricated data and engaged in a program of misleading the public

Wow, that's even better. Attribute the "fabrication" by one group to the entire "movement," i.e., everyone who wants any sort of environmental policy, and call them all liars.

What is the enviro policy of the Earth Day people?.. Something like, developed countries = bad; therefore, transfer money to undeveloped nations?

Define "Earth Day people."

Yeah - that'll heal ole Mother Gaia

No, what'll really help is if we repeal all anti-pollution laws. They're all liars anyway, right?

Stop silencing TB here...

You should be ashamed that you are marginalizing the movement

OK, so there's no need for any kind of environmental control.

Well, you've convinced me.

 

[captain morgan]

I'm not being silenced. I don't do the "Earth hour" thing. But assume anything you like.


Wow, that's even better. Attribute the "fabrication" by one group to the entire "movement," i.e., everyone who wants any sort of environmental policy, and call them all liars.


Define "Earth Day people."


No, what'll really help is if we repeal all anti-pollution laws. They're all liars anyway, right?




OK, so there's no need for any kind of environmental control.

Well, you've convinced me.

 

[petros]

What is the enviro policy of the Earth Day people?

Find the nicest park you can and trample the soil into pavement, buy souvenirs like Peruvian finger puppets from trendy vendors while drinking rainforest coffee with a frog content of at least 60%.

 

[captain morgan]

Find the nicest park you can and trample the soil into pavement, buy souvenirs like Peruvian finger puppets from trendy vendors while drinking rainforest coffee with a frog content of at least 60%.

Sounds like the 'save the planet' eco-party and concert that Midnight Oil played in Clayoquot Sound Protest.

Turned the entire area into a raw-sewage-infested, mud bowl.

 

[petros]

Damn hippys.

 

[Walter]

Sounds like the 'save the planet' eco-party and concert that Midnight Oil played in Clayoquot Sound Protest.

Turned the entire area into a raw-sewage-infested, mud bowl.

Sounds like any and all Occupy movements. I flush my movements but sometimes it takes more than one flush.

 

[petros]

I flush my movements but sometimes it takes more than one flush.

I flush twice because it's a long way to Winnipeg.

 

[captain morgan]

I flush twice because it's a long way to Winnipeg.

Sounds like there may be a need to build a pipeline to the Gulf Coast to deal with this

 

[damngrumpy]

Earth day is the biggest joke so far No I won't celebrate it but if some feel
sitting around in the dark is something they want to do well everyone needs
something to do.

 

[petros]

but if some feel sitting around in the dark is something they want to do

I wonder how many tonnes of CDN heavy oil sourced paraffin will be burned by hippys in the form of scented candles on Earth Day?

 

[captain morgan]

I wonder how many tonnes of CDN heavy oil sourced paraffin will be burned by hippys in the form of scented candles on Earth Day?

Are you saying that they don't run honey bee operations and use the bees wax for candles?