What to Do for Earth Hour After the Lights Go Down

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While you're out stargazing for an hour keep an eye out for that big freakin' asteroid addressed, "Earth". When that baby hits forget about the "green thing" - It's gonna be all black ash... Then it's back to the drawing board for another 100 million years... And so the circle turns...

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:08PM March 29, 2009

So I can use up some power that will go to waste on this day.
If you want real change, it comes from within.
Let put some cash behind Nuclear Fusion. After that, you can complain about conserving power all you want.
If it doesn't work? At least we tried.
But I believe it will work.
Too many mamby pamby Greenies are against anything Nuclear because they are ignorant.
What we need is a real source of power, not pinwheels and sundials.

Dave H. of NC 3:46PM March 28, 2009

True, much difference in carbon footprint will be made with an hour light off. But, it sends a message to the decision makers that it is no longer an economic issue to be tackled with a ledger. It is the very survival of the planet and the man. This poor planet has suffered enough damage and it simply can't take it. Environmental issues are no longer debatable issues. They are life and the question of life. We must insist the greed of some or some world leaders can not overrule the urgent need to cut out our carbon emissions.

p k surendran of WI 3:18AM March 28, 2009

I think you are missing the point. Forget the fact that they are asking you to turn off non-essential lights for one hour, this is about showing the world that you care about what is happening. I don't care if you believe in climate change or not, shouldn't we take better care of our earth just because? Shouldn't our governments care about what we eat and breathe? The earth goes through it's own changes and none of us can know for sure if this warm up or cool down is bad or good or if we even caused it. Is that a reason to throw our hands in the air and say, "It's not my fault, I don't care."
Earth Hour is about showing our leaders that environment has come off their agendas and we have noticed. Not noticed over the last few weeks or months, but over the last several years. Environmental responsibility should be on the same list as fiscal responsibility in terms of importance.
Turning off the lights is visual, there is a before and an after, it's not signatures on a paper or numbers on a chart., it is people and houses showing they care. If you don't want to turn off your lights that's fine, but realize we could all be waving little green flags and it would be to the same end. It's not the energy that maters, it's a nice by product, its the visualization of the call for attention on what we feel is an important matter.

Darren of NV 5:49PM March 27, 2009

This pointless effort to put on a show with no substantive meaning only proves the fruitless efforts of the enviroweenies to shame us into ......what exactly? Should we prove a larger point by shutting off all power for a week? a month? Would they ask us to live without power for a year? To what end? Our modern life demands the use of power, the consumption of fuel and this practice has returned incalculable dividends. We live much longer, toil much less, eat healthy, enjoy a standard of living never dreamed of in the pre-industrial age. As a result of the market price, we conserve it, we demand frugality and find clever ways of maximizing its utility.
This demonstration does have a point, but it is not what its' promoters lead us to believe. The point of this exercise is to see how many sheep are willing to follow a leader without inspecting the premise.

American Sharecropper of CA 2:51PM March 27, 2009