Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/24/2010 9:30:34 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
A typical family can reduce its carbon dioxide footprint by 85kg a year if everyone goes to bed and gets up one hour earlier, according to the campaign The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging people to go to bed and get up extra early in order to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions. The Morning Challenge campaign, unveiled by the Environment Ministry, is based on the premise that swapping late night electricity for an extra hour of morning sunlight could significantly cut the nation's carbon footprint.
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Maybe we can do the same thing with Congress. ASk them to go to sleep 3 hours early.
And this was supposed to be an intelligent culture....I think that got lost somewhere back down the road a’ways.
You KNOW what happens in bed....more little carbon footprints pitter-pattering around 9 months later.
And don’t forget to turn out the rights!
This fits in nicely with what Al Gore stated
Environment should be the “central organizing principle” of society.
Essentially, the same thing as if we cancelled daylight savings. But, the real reason we have DST is that it’s good for the economy. It creates jobs. More time after work means more recreational activities, more recreational equipment sold, etc. Just another example of people wanting to destroy wealth and reduce living standards to ‘save the planet’.
Mandatory bedtimes. Goes with mandatory toilet bowl flush sizes and mandatory calorie intakes.
Thank you damn socialists.
Then, wouldn't they wake up an hour earlier?
What is daylight savings time?
Yet the Japanese continue to kill thousands of whales at sea each year for “research” freaking hyprocrites, I wish Godzilla was real
Japan has a plummeting birth rate. The government may be selling this as a “green” effort to reduce CO2, but it could have the very beneficial effect of giving them a mini baby boomlet, which would do more for their economy than anything else at this point.
Failing to breed is a sure sign of imminent cultural demise. Maybe they’ve figured that out?
A pain in the neck.
Might not be a good idea for women. I’d bet most husbands will confirm their wives’ pass (the most) gas when asleep.
Always been my observation, anyway.
That’s what I was thinking. Did they tell them to go to bed alone or with a partner?
I can see a spike in the birth rates already.....
Skipping the eel sushi may cut down on some emissions, too.
Ask warmists why cutting carbon emissions is a desirable goal.
Simple question, and leads to a complete undermining of their premise.
I agree with this but not for carbon credits..
I am in Arizona- no daylight savings time here, so the sun rises at lke 4AM, and I am loving it!
Get up early, go to bed early, nice weather... Tucson is my new favorite place next to Vancouver.
Our Japanese exchange student was one of FOUR children in her family.....I would like to get her back over here now that she’s out of school....(beauty school...aaaggghhh)....cause I have a young family friend I want to introduce her to in Montana...a good CONSERVATIVE guy....I’m thinking of making a match, but afraid of pulling her out of her environment on Okinawa.....
If this were the goal, at least it would be a worthy policy...
ANd no, I do NOT mean that Tucson is located next to Vancouver
Given Japan’s rapidly aging demographics, I don’t think that getting to bed an hour earlier will be a problem. The thing is though, the old asian codgers will be grabbing their knotty, crooked walking staffs and turning on the lights to find their pills when they wake up in the morning at 4:45.
in a year, headlines..
Massive Population Boom
Maternity Wards Overflowing
Is it more likely that with their aging and declining population they are hoping that this could cause a baby boom, but they are afraid to bring up that topic.
By that logic that could achieve the greatest reduction by staying in bed 24/7.
Earlier to bed and more babies will be made to make more carbon foot prints. Can’t have it both ways.
So if we inflate our tires and go to sleep earlier, energy problems solved. We won’t even need windmills.
A wise Indian once observed that the 'White Man' is taught to believe that if you cut one foot off of the end of a blanket and sew it on the other end somehow you have more blanket.
Why, doesn’t day light savings time work for them??? Same effect isn’t it.
Obama dreams of that kind of power. He fantasizes about controlling every action and thought of every American, from cradle to grave, and absolutely everything he does and says is focused on that ultimate objective.
PING
Yobai - Oh MY!
Do it, seriously, what is sooo unique and important about her “Okinawa environment” that it could possibly be more beneficial than a lifetime commitment to a good conservative man?
Crite my bank. I just got home, its 2am, and I took my own lazy-ass time to get here from Shinjuku and spread my carbon emissions all over the place.
Exactly. People won’t get up an hour earier to play golf before work but they will get up an hour earlier to go to work earlier so they can stay up an hour later so they can play golf.
I heard a guy say one time that we shouldn’t have DST since that is ‘messing with God’s time’. Little did he know that the driving factor behind time zones were the railroads’ need to simplify train schedules. In effect, he was saying that the railroads were ‘God’.
Hehe. Where’s the FR “Like this” button. Good one.
I contribue as much as I can to increasing the birth rate in Japan. I only know of three that I own so far.
And if they don’t go to bed like commanded? Does Al Gore come in a demand a massage from them?
Take your clothes off before you even sneak into the house. In Fukuoka, it was once illegal to attack a naked intruder, as he was probably engaged in yobai rather than theft.
Keep it quiet, even if socially questionable acts are required. One technique to avoid detection was to urinate along the bottom of doors to prevent them squeaking as they were slid open.
Practice safe sex. A night crawling man would often cover his face with a cloth, protecting himself and his chosen lady from embarrassment...
Naked guy pees on the door and then creeps into a daughter's room wearing a mask? He better hope Papa's Samurai sword is in the shop.
More gob’ment control of the people over a lie.
RE: Massive Population Boom
Demographically, they’ll need it. They have an aging population and a huge debt as a percent of GDP which the current working population cannot shoulder.
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