Saturday, March 29, 2008

Re: Google "turns the lights out"   [Mark Steyn]

Nathan, what I like about Google "going dark" in support of "Earth Hour" is that it, in fact, uses more energy than the regular old white screen. But hey, we can always use another pointless gesture in the name of "raising awareness". Anyone who isn't "aware" by now of the mass global-warming psychosis is presumably already living in a cave, and therefore has no lights to turn out.

Another attractive feature of "Earth Hour" is the opportunity it offers to transform free nations into a society of eco-Stasi:

Between 8 and 9 tonight, I’ll be doing what I usually do at that time:I’ll be out with my wife walking our two dogs 5km around our small town.

Tonight, however, I’ll be looking at my neighbours’ windows to see which ones are participating in Earth Hour.

Hmm. While you're at it, why not stroll past Al Gore's one-man City of Light in Tennessee?

Still, you couldn't ask for a better image for this movement than apparently sane people voluntarily keeping themselves in the dark. The great Tim Blair, lit up like Gore Manor, has much more.

03/29 08:54 PMShare