Red Tory v.2.0
The good news is that the little stunt they will pull (by burning every light and appliance they can find) is that they will all have to pay a higher month end bill for their 'right' to be idiotic!
Like I said on my blog, these people essentially amount to piss in the gene pool.
I think you need a psychotherapist.
I think you need a psychotherapist.
I think you need to realize the difference between being sarcastic and being serious. Although it's probably too much to ask from anyone who might take Teh Right seriously ...
sf — Can you recommend one?
SF:
I think you need rhetorical literacy.
"... increase your impact on our earth's resources," writes the Small Dead Braincells idiot. With that, she secures the prize for being the biggest asshole of the bunch.
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.
I really don’t understand these people at all. I try to live in a very minimal, low-impact sort of way in any case, but I really can’t fathom going out of my way to actually increase my consumption for no reason other than to be a prick.
What’s funny about this nitwits is that while they mock “gesture politics” like this (and there is, admittedly, an element of silliness to it) and complain that it’s just empty symbolism, they think nothing about pimping “Red Fridays” and sporting decals and little pins to show their “support” for the troops — as if that does a damn thing.
This isn't the first time Kate's tried to "inspire" her minions to waste excessively to make a "point". That point being of course, "We're giant idiots with too much money, and not enough concern for other people."
Does seem pretty selfish, doesn't it? But then, that's what the CPoC is all about these days...
Hey, I love your gravatar, btw.
"... while they mock “gesture politics” like this (and there is, admittedly, an element of silliness to it) and complain that it’s just empty symbolism, they think nothing about pimping “Red Fridays” and sporting decals and little pins to show their “support” for the troops ..."
That hadn't occurred to me. Good point.
It is a totally useless event unfortunately. I just get annoyed because if this event fails to be celebrated in my house, I get the guilt trip on Monday morning at school, like I need that...and my husband skips merrily off to work and no one blames him. I'm just trying to teach my kids that lights are irrelevent in terms of energy consumption compared to turning off the computer and the Wii every night, instead of letting it sit there sucking electricity but unused. I, for one, am sick to death of empty gestures. I want actual things to get done.
But I certainly wouldn't make MORE waste. Dumb.
Aurelia — I can appreciate that, but the point, as I understand it, was to raise general “awareness” about the various things we can do as individuals that, taken together in sufficient numbers, will indeed have an impact to the positive in terms of our overall energy consumption…
Hey, like all parents, I’ve most certainly experienced the maddening frustration of repeatedly shutting off lights and appliances left running for no reason whatsoever (sheer laziness) and have grown weary to the point of exasperation of telling my kids to act more responsibly in this regard. “Electricity doesn’t grow on trees, you know!” (Or something to that effect.) But really… energy most certainly isn’t free (as we all know from our utility bills) and we’re dealing from a finite pool of fossil-based resources in many cases, so why not make a little extra effort to be less wasteful and conserve energy in some small way? If it’s an “empty gesture” well, perhaps… Even as such, it’s an utterly harmless one that barely inconveniences us in the slightest way, but could just possibly have a positive impact. So what’s wrong with that?
I seem to recall when “conservation” was considered a good thing — beyond any silly political or ideological agendas, it was simply regarded as a virtuous act in its own right. Whatever happened to that quaint notion? Or how about the idea of a making a small personal sacrifice for the greater good — has that become an utterly contemptible notion? If so, it’s a profoundly sad state of affairs we exist in these days. Our short-sighted, wasteful, and greedy consumerism will be the ultimate death of us if we don’t change our habits.
Thanks, I kind of like it too. I hope the province or Queen don't mind 
I hadn't thought of the Red Fridays, but that's a great comparison.
I'm just trying to teach my kids that lights are irrelevant in terms of energy consumption compared to turning off the computer and the Wii every night, instead of letting it sit there sucking electricity but unused.
Aurelia | Homepage | 03.29.08 - 7:34 pm |
You can teach your kids whatever you want but I think you're missing the point. 60w an hour is still 60w an hour. If you have 10 regular 60w incandescents on for 4 hours at night that's still using 2400 watts you've used. Given say, a 400w power supply you could run a computer for 6 hours off that same amount of power. Now if those lights are actually doing something ( like lighting your living room so you can see ) that's fine. But if they're just burning for the sake of burning then you're wasting power.
Turning anything off when it's not really needed is always a benefit. Because when something is off, it's not costing you anything. Unless of course is one of those devices that's never really off because it maintains power anyway ( like a DVD player or microwave ) but that's another argument entirely.
What you seem to be saying is that it's best to stick dollars ( or the Canadian equiv ) in your savings which while it isn't incorrect statement, also isn't the whole picture. You also seem to be saying that we should ignore the nickels, dimes, pennies and quarters. That shit adds up over time, ya know? Not to mention the fact that tossing a few nickels and dimes into a savings jar isn't going to be as noticeable a hit to the lifestyle of the average person as say, sticking $500 out of a paycheck aside.
The whole point of Earth Hour was to show people that they can affect positive change without having to live in a cave, drinking your own urine and eating only tree bark and beetles. I can understand the desire for massive positive change but that's not going to happen especially given the number of immature assholes about that like to mock things like this. What is more likely is that society will undergo incremental change to the point where eventually even the assholes will figure it's in their own best interests to stop being assholes and help out.
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