Posted on 03/30/2014 12:01:00 AM PDT by kingattax
Lights went off in thousands of cities and towns across the world on Saturday for the annual Earth Hour campaign, which is aiming to raise money via the Internet for local environmental projects.
Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge were among the first landmarks around the world to dim their lights for 60 minutes during Saturday’s event. An estimated 7,000 cities and towns from New Zealand to New York are taking part.
Hong Kong’s stunning waterfront skyline was unrecognisable on Saturday evening, with the city’s tallest skyscraper, the International Commerce Centre, stripped of the vast light show usually wrapped around its 118 stories. Blazing neon signs advertising some of the world’s largest brands were shut off, leaving the view of the heavily vertical city peppered only with tiny lights from buildings’ interiors.
Earth Hour partnered with payments giant PayPal to allow donors to contribute to specific projects from Russia and India to Canada and Indonesia, using Asian fundraising site Crowdonomic.
Earth Hour chief executive Andy Ridley said before the lights went off in Singapore that the event had moved beyond symbolism to concrete action.
“If you want to get real social change you need to have symbolism,” he told AFP. “We are seeing some really big outcomes.”
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everything these green loons do is based on feelings and intentions.
since they are obviously missing the thinking gene, they couldn’t understand any part of what you wrote.
It’s that eeeeevilll electric light bulb. Mother Earth wants a sacrifice! Toss all the virgin light bulbs into the volcano!
That’s the ticket!
I will now say “Good night!” Time to turn off the computer, turn off the light and turn on the electric blanket.
Darn, I forgot! All the lights in the house on would have looked fantastic lighting up the new 5” of beautiful white global warming we picked up yesterday.
Fibre glass and resin. Now there's a really "green" product!
Sadly we still have people who are stuck on stupid
I forgot to burn my tire pile.
From Daniel Greenfield/Sultan Knish:
Night Falls on Civilization
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138920/posts
“Then again, something appeals to Green wackos about turning lights off I can’t fathom.”
They want to go back to the dark ages.
Yes, we must all save energy because the sun will burn out in a few months.
I’d call that a waste of good beef and bacon.
Oh! And, soap.
Earth Day was “created” on Vladimir Lenin’s 100th birthday.
Just another reason for leftists to celebrate communism...
What leftist radical’s birthday did earth hour celebrate?
When you think about the fact that all this, environmentalism, feminism,gay rights, making men look stupid at every opportunity, multiculturalism etc. is all by design to destroy us, you feel hopeless. It’s like a many tentacled octopus.
Seems in years past, there were organized efforts to KEEP YOUR LIGHTS ON, to protest this nonsense.
Well, being a ‘dark moon’ evening, before the ‘New Moon’ of today, I had all of my required lighting turned on.
kingattax suggested that those greenies need to hold their breath for one hour, to help the CO2 problem.
Counterpoint-I suggest that those same individuals need be, ahem, ventilated, to release and exorcise all that bad CO2 from their self-declared evil human bodies.
Not to mention their fund raisers and pleasure trips thinly disguised as official business.
It snowed around here yesterday or I would have taken my Mustang for a drive.
Dang, I missed it! I would have turned all my lights on and ran the hair dryer for an hour if I’d known.
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