Earth Hour

[Max]

Earth Hour - Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm (local time)



"On March 28 you can VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights for one hour.
Or you can vote global warming by leaving your lights on.

The results of the election are being presented at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. We want one billion votes for Earth, to tell world leaders that we have to take action against global warming."

http://www.earthhour.org/

Keep Earth, and our playground, in good shape

[Xephyr]

Lights only? Or technology.

[Sam]

How about: "switch off ignorance" instead of lights. If global warming is actually occurring, people are not the cause. Volcanic activity is the biggest contributor of greenhouse gasses and we contribute a tiny fraction of that with all our fossil fuel burning and other "destructive" activity.

This is a topic with an amazing amount of poor science, emotional appeal (rather than logical reasoning), and political bull. Unfortunately, there is so much falsity out there regarding this that it really is worthless providing links and references. Instead, I encourage people to use their critical thinking skills or at least be aware when someone is using real facts or just trying to tell you something is a fact without justifying it.

Even though I'm a global warming denier, I still think we should look after our environment. At the very least it makes it a much more pleasant place to live if the world is clean. That's a good enough excuse to be "green" for me. I don't need a lot of smoke and mirrors and bandwagons to convince me to be tidy though.

Sorry if I upset anyone

[Xephyr]

Yeah!! What Sam said!!

I don't really see much of a point in NZ doing it anyway seeing as we're one of the more cleaner countries so I'm guessing we don't produce as much destruction to the environment as everyone else? We also have less people which means less cars etc.

I'll probably still participate for the hell of it though.

[Affian]

What sam said...

On another note the 28th is my birthday....

[martian]

I don't buy that equilibrium stuff either TBH. The 'circle of life' portrayed by disney is better described as a circle of death. Predators feast on what they can and grow in number until there's not enough prey to go around and they start to die off, restoring the balance and giving a false impression of an intentional equilibrium in the process. Given a chance, any other species would conquer the planet to the extent we have, and maybe we should consider it fortunate that the one species that did at least has the capacity to think about the long term effects of it.

[Max]

Yeah!! What Sam said!!

I don't really see much of a point in NZ doing it anyway seeing as we're one of the more cleaner countries so I'm guessing we don't produce as much destruction to the environment as everyone else? We also have less people which means less cars etc.

I'll probably still participate for the hell of it though.

In reality NZ has one of the world's highest ecological footprints. Meaning we're using more resources and making more waste than our country can regenerate. Also from that article is this, "According to Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority reports New Zealand is now second only to the United States both in the number of cars owned per person and in the number of kilometres travelled in those cars."

Let me know. Do you think this count as news for a parkour site? It kind of fits into the feel of MovNat etc and the concept behind parkour of training functional fitness like our bodies back in the hunter gather days did and still do work their healthiest at...

[Tori]

I've seen documentaries and debates about man-made global warming and I've come to the conclusion that we can't really trust anything we hear about the issue, as it is mostly fueled by politics and politicians, who can conjure one-sided evidence in which the validity is questionable.
But I do believe, putting behind all the politics, that it important for New Zealand and the world not to be wasteful and pollute anyway. The truth is that global warming is happening, whether it is man-made or by nature, and that it would be clever to conserve power, try not to pollute, and reduce, re-use, recycle whenever possible.
Remember, not only may polluting etc. possibly pose an effect on our climate, which can lead to devastating consequences as we all know, we also have to realise that if we don't reduce, re-use, recycle and all of the above, we (humanity) will basically be screwing itself over anyway because we'll eventually run out of resources (be it petrol - you guys know the effects of that, and trees/forests - which incidentally can lead to a huge chain of problems), before we know it, we'll be living in a dirty, hot, humid, decaying environment - with the human population likely to be as numerous as ever (even worse); and then we'll eventually all die. woohoo great fun.

So basically, I fully support these 'greenies' (I guess I'm one too) and even if the evidence behind the man-made global warming issue may be cloudy (no pun intended ), the end result will still be the same.
So GO! be GREEN!!!!\

And support Earth Hour if it means that we'll be able to influence the world leaders into making some better decisions!

Rant over

[Xephyr]

Yeah!! What Sam said!!

I don't really see much of a point in NZ doing it anyway seeing as we're one of the more cleaner countries so I'm guessing we don't produce as much destruction to the environment as everyone else? We also have less people which means less cars etc.

I'll probably still participate for the hell of it though.

In reality NZ has one of the world's highest ecological footprints. Meaning we're using more resources and making more waste than our country can regenerate. Also from that article is this, "According to Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority reports New Zealand is now second only to the United States both in the number of cars owned per person and in the number of kilometres travelled in those cars."

Let me know. Do you think this count as news for a parkour site? It kind of fits into the feel of MovNat etc and the concept behind parkour of training functional fitness like our bodies back in the hunter gather days did and still do work their healthiest at...

FFFFFFFF SRSLY?!!

Damn that's depressing to hear... Well I suppose an hour couldn't hurt but it really depends on what everybody else in the house is doing, being the youngest I have like no authority =/

[Jonesy]

I respect people's decisions and all, but big public things like this should really be thought out more clearly. One entire hour? All around the world? Even if only a small percentage of corporations and households comply the cost will be tens of millions in lost revenue.

I'm not really one of those people who jump onto the "save the planet" bandwagon. I always research heavily before buying into anything, especially partaking with it. The light's at mine are staying on.