Earth Hour promotes awareness
From the Great Pyramids and the Sydney Opera House, people, institutions and landmarks around the globe powered down from 8:30 to 9:30 local time Saturday night in order to raise awareness about the benefits of energy conservation and the issue of climate change.
The annual event, which was started in Sydney in 2007, has now spread to a number of U.S. college campuses — including, as of last year, Yale.
The Yale Student Environmental Coalition, the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership and the Yale College Council held myriad activities to entice students out of...
I'm sure your great-grandchildren will appreciate that as they buy SPF 3000 sunscreen and the human race bursts into flame around them.
@#2,
My grandchildren will appreciate the healthy skepticism they inherit from me, which will guide them as they navigate seas of incredibly arrogant and overconfident intellectuals and pseudo-scientists.
Global warming hysteria is simply hubris.
We should not be so foolish as to presume that we know what is best for the planet.
Yes, because flagrantly wasting resources to no end other than obstinancy certainly couldn't be bad for the planet.
We don't know what is good for the planet, so we have no obligation to not do things that are clearly bad for it? That's nothing but an illogical excuse for lazy people to continue their wastefulness with no regard for future generations.
My wife and I turned on every light in our house, and celebrated "Human Achievement Hour" instead.