I think this comparison is horrendous. Actor Edward Norton says the upcoming Earth Hour, where participants will turn off “non-essential lighting” for an hour for the sake of saving energy and saving the planet, is symbolic just like the march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, where participants were beaten by police, was symbolic. I wonder Norton thinks the student who stood before the tanks in Tiananmen Square were standing symbolically too.
It’s entirely consistent with the profession of acting not to be able to tell the difference.
And why would one only do this for an hour?
I heard a suggestion that humans emit more green house gases by breathing than by using light bulbs. Imagine the good it would do if all the environmentalists concerned about man-made global warming would also hold their breath for one hour on Saturday night.
If you didn’t get my point, it’s this; if you’ve lived half your life on a fishing boat, you know that that you don’t waste power if you have to generate it yourself :=)
Searider, I didn’t understand your full point, but I didn’t get what you meant in general. I almost commented on the linked article that I turn off non-essential lighting every day. Sometimes I feel I’m the only one in my house who does this, but still I turn off the lights every day. I keep the thermostat low in the winter and high in the summer. I don’t joy-ride or make ten short errand trips a day like some people do.
Climate alarmists can sit on it.
Phil; I can give you some background. Early in my career (I think it was my first year) I was out on a boat (a one man boat) and we were out fishing. Evening came and I had all the electronics on, and the engine off. I went to bed (forgetting the the radar was on) and when I got up several hours later; I had lost all (ALL) power. I switched off all the electronics, and waited; eventually enough power ‘came back’ that the radio became operable. I phoned for help; but by the time someone came a 30 MPH wind had come up. To be in a situation like that without enough power to start the engine was a frightening experience. (I eventually got towed into harbor.) The take away is that people take energy for granted; and thus waste far too much.