PJM: It’s the 16th annual “Earth Hour” tonight. Wherever you are on this planet between the hours of 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. (local time) you’re supposed to turn off all your electric lights to “do something good for the planet.”
I suspect that the greens want us to get used to living in darkness. Whatever the reason, you will never see such an outpouring of preening, self-congratulatory chest-thumping on the part of insufferable green nincompoops for the rest of the year.
Turning off the Empire State Building lights or the lights on the Eiffel Tower will not, ever, in a million years, do anything to draw awareness to the cause of — what, exactly?
The reason for all this hullaballoo is a little fuzzy. Battling climate change is most often mentioned but also we’re preserving scarce resources and becoming more aware of the environment.
I miss my college days, when my college wingman & I would go out to shoot down some small saplings with HK.308 & AK 7.62 fire to celebrate “Earth” Day.
Great! I still have time to throw a couple of tires on the burn pile I’ve got going. This one’s for you, AOC.
Might fire up every two stroke bike I own.
I’ll fire up the old no bullshit emissions Cummings and turn all those lights on too.
I already got a couple of spotted owls on the grill. And I’m going to make sure that I put all of my recyclables in the regular trash pin, that really drives me crazy.
We really should have this at Christmas time, when a lot of electric meters are generally spinning much faster than the wind turbines supposedly providing the power.
Even my outdoor solar lights are protesting this nonsense….
The conservative thinking I was raised with taught me to use all resources water, gas, food etc. with frugality. Use what you need, leave the rest. Having 8 siblings helped enforce that lesson 😉
Turned on all the lights TVs computers and washed and dried some clothes. Tired of hearing the shit.
I’m all for cutting power to Air Force One or Two at 30,000 feet tonight if it’s on it’s way to Delaware…
Got a pile of tires out back I’ve been collecting for just such an occasion, and I’m gonna torch it as soon as it’s dark enough.
,I stopped by a market on the way in to work last week and parked next to A Tesla with custom plates that read ERTHHUG. I figured some pink haired fat old lady owned it. Nope, professional guy in a biz suit. I couldn’t help myself. I asked him if he’d ever seen a Cobalt mine and what they do to the earth. Then I asked him if he knew how toxic those batteries are. Deer, Headlights. I walked away shaking my head. I very rarely, well never, confront some one like that, but the hypocrisy of ERTHHUG sent me right over the edge.
One whole hour. Damn. Let’s see the green weenies go a month with no power. No refrigeration. No internet, TV, or cell phones. It’s a damned good thing that recent Coronal Mass Ejection was on the other side of the sun or we’d be back in the Dark Ages. Literally.
not only did I turn every light in the house on but I plugged every space heater in, set the thermostats to 90. Then I turned the central air on and set it to 60. For good measure I turned the old quartz-halogen lamps on in the shop.
I cranked up the AC today. It was 80 degrees in the house.
I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t a utility company scam to collect more money from not so smart conservatives. LOL
I’m in Vegas in full view of The Strip, I will report my findings of who the fuck shuts off their lights in about 25 minutes local time…
I turned on all the lights and farted as much as I could. Of course, that’s everyday as well.
If the libs were serious they would all put a bullet in their left ear, the planet would be saved, and we could go back to practicing PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) burning wood, and taking dominion over our planet the way God intended us to.
We laugh but how long until this is compulsory in California?
It appears Las Vegas did NOT get the memo.
All lights blazing, neon on, and quite telling, the Luxor Sky Light is at full strength.
Bwahahaha!
Earth + Plastic
I harpooned a fat chick. Not sure if it benefits earth hour, but it felt like the thing to do at the moment.
^ But did she sing? Sometimes you have to squeeze ’em.
I’m down at the beach cramming plastic straws up some turtle noses.
General ‘Honey Bun’ Malaise – And sometimes they fart when ya squeeze ’em… then they fly around the parking lot backwards for 20 seconds!
@Brad – perhaps ERTHTHUG would have been more apt.
I’ll turn off my lights when China does it.
@RIch
You are doing the recycle/ trash thing backwards. I throw all my gross trash in the recycle can. It would piss them off if it didn’t all get dumped in the same place.
Pile of wet leaves still smoldering. Two fiberglass boats are now gone. Was saving both for earth day but what the heck.
Every. Fucking. Light!
Fuck Joe Biden!
North Korea participates every day.
Soon, California, too.
Only 27 more days and 4 more weeks until Earth Day on April 22nd. Woohoo, we’re all gonna die because of racism, greed and liberal/progtard hand wringing because they all say so and they have been wrong 100% of the time, that they have proclaimed the end of the world as we know it since 1970. It’s been 53 years and counting and yet humanity is still alive.
Opps, I’m Sorry.
Didn’t know it was Earth day.
I’ll make sure I do something with Charcoal & Red Meat today to try and catch up.
An hour? Pfffft – I turn off my porch light every morning, and don’t tune it back on until night.
I feel so embarrassed and backward. I heard about the virtue signal a few wears ago but forgot all about it until this morning looking here on IOTW report.
Thank you IOTW for reminding me of this important virtue signal, and thank you for reminding me after it’s too late to participate so I can suffer my private shame for another year before remedying the faux pas.
Years, not wears.