Via Chicken Yoghurt, I am reminded (reluctantly) about Earth Hour.
On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour – WWF’s Earth Hour.
We want a billion people around the world to sign up and join in.
Sign up to show that you care about people, wildlife and the planet, and that you want the world’s leaders to take action to tackle climate change.
Unfortunately Justin uses the egregious term “denier” when mentioning those of us who do not go along with the religious fervour that surrounds the issue of global warming climate change.
The cynics and climate change deniers will no doubt call it an empty gesture when really those of them of a romantic bent should be enjoying the amazing spectacle and the rest can copper up the money they’re saving sitting in the actual as well as rhetorical darkness.
I am not a denier – as denying that climate changes is silly. It has changed since this rock first solidified from the molten mass whence it came. It will continue to change long after we are dust, until, that is, the sun goes super nova, then it will have changed forever and even Al Gore won’t be able to stop it. Consequently, I have no intention of trying to stop it any more than Canute had any intention of stopping the tide from rolling up the shore. And the last thing I want is our “leaders” taking action because all that will mean is more draconian legislation and higher taxes for them to piss up the wall on their quangos, second homes and expenses.
So, no, I won’t be taking part. It is indeed an empty gesture and I see nothing amazing about it. And, frankly, I want no part of anything that furthers the green agenda of returning us to a medieval agrarian society.