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Earth Hour this Sat March 27 at 8:30 p.m. (pg. 4)
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| Jayx1 |
| awesome that there is an earth hour TV SPECIAL on right now... um, hellooooo????? |
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| Jayx1 |
annnnnnnnnnnnd they are filming it from the CP24 HELICOPTER!! Thats great for global warming! bahahahaha
idiots |
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| Jayx1 |
chantal k singing "leaving on a jet plane" at the earth day special.. She must singing about Al Gore and David Suzuki hahahaha
this is jokes.... |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | | Essential cultural events like Canadian hockey matches will carry on regardless of Earth Hour. According to the Vancouver Sun, "TV, particularly when tuned to the Canucks, is classified as an essential use of power." |
Lulz. |
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| daves |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
Turning lights off for an hour is not going to make anyone anymore aware of "climate issues". The people who think they need to save the world are already saving the world and those that don't care are going to continue not caring. |
It does, actually - you know, the people who are open-minded enough to not want to immediately piss on the concept. |
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| kotsy |
there was a delay on the subway today and someone actually asked me if it was because of earth hour
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| Yohan |
I celebrated earth hour by being incredibly drunk and eating copious amounts of sushi
boy i paid for that later. mother earth took vengeful spite on me |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
copious |
word of the day! :wtf: |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
there was a delay on the subway today and someone actually asked me if it was because of earth hour
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
I see what you did there. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by daves
It does, actually - you know, the people who are open-minded enough to not want to immediately piss on the concept. |
Yeah, buddy, I get to watch residential electricity consumption/demand, and I can tell you straight up that nobody changes their habits after Earth Hour. Hell, most people don't even change it during the hour.
Some commercial buildings (and ironically almost no government buildings) turn off the lights, so... great, we save a few hundred bucks of electricity, and immediately afterward they go back to blasting their air conditioners while it's 15° outside.
I don't know how else you "measure" awareness, maybe there's something I'm missing, but using the term "open-minded" is so much BS here; what we need is for people to be objective, not open.
Every year it's the same thread, same debate, and every year, nothing changes. Every year, more and more people stop giving a crap about Earth Hour, and every year, governments at all levels stubbornly refuse to do the one thing that might actually reduce consumption/demand because it would be politically unpopular: Make the actual cost of electricity more transparent to its users.
I'll start being "open-minded" about this the same day people like you start being "open-minded" about a flat tax. |
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| kaniz |
Stuff White People Like #18 - Awareness
| quote: | An interesting fact about white people is that they firmly believe that all of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.” Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it.
This belief allows them to feel that sweet self-satisfaction without actually having to solve anything or face any difficult challenges. Because, the only challenge of raising awareness is people not being aware. In a worst case scenario, if you fail someone doesn’t know about the problem. End of story.
What makes this even more appealing for white people is that you can raise “awareness” through expensive dinners, parties, marathons, selling t-shirts, fashion shows, concerts, eating at restaurants and bracelets. In other words, white people just have to keep doing stuff they like, EXCEPT now they can feel better about making a difference.
Raising awareness is also awesome because once you raise awareness to an acceptable, aribtrary level, you can just back off and say “Bam! did my part. Now it’s your turn. Fix it.”
So to summarize – you get all the benefits of helping (self satisfaction, telling other people) but no need for difficult decisions or the ensuing criticism (how do you criticize awareness?). Once again, white people find a way to score that sweet double victory.
Popular things to be aware of: The Environment, Diseases like Cancer and AIDS, Africa, Poverty, Anorexia, Homophobia, Midde School Field Hockey/Lacrosse teams, Drug Rehab, and political prisoners.
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