Let there be light!

Across the globe, people are doing great things to make life better for their fellow human beings.

Countries like India and China are raising millions out of poverty every year. Researchers in universities are making inspiring strides in medical research.

Our history is full of seemingly small achievements that change the world. Like this guy’s story: 18th century Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt gave us the steam engine, the “watt” and helped bring about the Industrial Revolution.

Because of advances like this, civilization really kicked into high gear. Without them, there would be no middle class.

There’d be no modern infrastructure. There’d be no health care – at least, not as we have today.

Poverty would be far more widespread. Life expectancies shorter. But we’ve improved all of these indicators.

So it seems the least we can do is take an hour each year to pause and reflect on these momentous breakthroughs leading to the quality of life we enjoy today.

Oops. This would be the part in the movie where the record starts to skip… Because we just googled this whole Earth Hour thing and it looks like we missed the point.

On Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., we’re supposed to turn off all of our lights and eschew electricity use because… well, because apparently using all that juice is really bad for the planet.

Earth Hour is a feel-good exercise dreamed up by the World Wildlife Foundation and debuted in 2007 in Australia.

Since then, thousands of cities around the world have foolishly signed up to participate in this empty gesture.

Here’s something else you can do, without sitting in the dark. The little guy is hurting enough thanks to all the fees and regulations that the green movement has strong-armed our governments into adopting.

The answer to whatever energy or climate problems that confront us is more innovation and technology –not less.

Let’s encourage inventors and companies to create enviro-friendly products that people want and can afford.

So for this year’s Earth Hour, let’s turn on all the technology to celebrate humanity’s hard-fought victory against the darkness!

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun

It’s important to distinguish the three forms of environmentalism.

1) The largest, most obnoxious, and utterly indifferent to the environment form of environmentalism is leftist environmentalism. For them, environmental causes are like all the other causes they subvert and take over, just means to political and economic power over others.

Their techniques for doing this points them out as scoundrels. First and foremost, the *only* things they will allow to “help” a given part of the environment are things that increase their political and economic power. Any other suggestions of addressing the given problem are strongly shot down, because if they work, there is no need to give political power and money to the leftists.

They especially hate simple solutions to such problems, that can be accomplished quickly and with minimal expense, because this is exactly the opposite of what they want.

The bottom line is that they do not really care at all for the environment, and are more than willing for ecological catastrophe to happen as long as they “get theirs”.

Another, more subtle aspect of leftist environmentalism is based in greed. That they believe they own nature, and that it is their private property, no trespassing allowed by non-leftists.

2) The second form of environmentalism is likewise negative in character. I would call it “Whig” environmentalism. These are business oriented people who see all nature, everywhere, as something to exploit for profit. While a little of this is good, too much is just grotesque.

In their own weird way they think they love nature, because they see natural beauty as very marketable, raising the value of the condos or shopping malls they want to put in the middle of it. But there is no end to this until every last bit it covered in asphalt or concrete.

Many places have embraced the idea of the law of diminishing returns, so are trying to keep lower density living as well as preserve the attractive nature in the area. So the end game of “Whig” environmentalists is to “go green”, to still be grasping but to give vocal support to mostly leftist environmentalists.

3) The third form of environmentalism is “conservative environmentalism”. It is truly a moderate system, focused on development within reason, conserving nature and some preserving of nature, repairing problems in nature such as breeding more endangered plants, animals and even insects for eventual release, while abating harmful and invasive ones.

Conservative environmentalists do the “heavy lifting” in environmentalism, but what they do is purposeful and gets results, just another reason for leftist environmentalists to bitterly hate them.

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