Long-time PTBC regular Marc Mielhausen is an avid pro-active conservative. A great Canadian. Canada needs more like Marc. He constantly writes letters to the editor, calling the media out for one or another of their constant stream of bunkum, or calling out the comments made by other readers in their letters to the editor.
Here’s the latest one he sent to his local paper, published yesterday, with regard to “Earth Hour”.
Earth Hour nothing more than a dim idea, overall consumption needs to be reduced
Wednesday April 02, 2008
Editor:
If you were in my neighbourhood, you would have seen an increase in power consumption at my house for Earth Hour.
I’m sure trying to explain this to those who worship Al Gore and David Suzuki will resemble a reenactment of Abbott & Costello’s famous “who’s on first?” routine—so I will try to write slowly.I turned on most electrical appliances and lights in my house just after 8 p.m. to do my part to help offset the massive draw on the system when everyone turns everything back on at 9 p.m. The huge draw at that time could have potentially resulted in localized blackouts and, worst case, a widespread blackout like 2003.
Had that happened, it could create a disaster with tons of food rotting and going to waste, requiring an increase in fossil fuel consumption to keep up with the surge of consumer automobiles and supply trucks converging on the grocery stores replace the destroyed food.
These possible consequences should not have been ignored. I’m sure there are other catastrophic possibilities that the Chicken Little crowd didn’t consider in their bid to feel good about putting forth a futile effort to “combat man-made global warming”—which is neither man-made nor combatable.
Instead of dim ideas like Earth Hour, people should just aim to reduce their overall consumption, annually, by a couple of per cent. This would reduce hydro bills, strain on the hydro system and would accomplish more than what the enviro-zombies tried to do in one single hour.
Marc Mielhausen
Central Elgin
While we’re on that “Earth Hour” hokum (YES! That’s the word! HOKUM!), I also liked this editorial from Human Events writer Dan Proft:
… Because, if we are being honest, Earth Hour, like its forefathers, is not about environmental policy, it is about social networking and self-importance.
Earth Hour is for those consumed with monitoring their carbon footprint and confused about why they do.
The desire to be relevant, to have a positive impact on the world is a good instinct. But, it is lost in the self-involved nature of exercises like Earth Hour.
The Gandhian ideal to “be the change you wish to see in the world” requires thoughtful, measured action towards an end bigger than one’s self.
Earth Hour, by contrast, smacks of a desperation for self-actualization.
Rather than creating a platform for compelling, fact-intensive arguments about eco-threats or creative ideas for green energy, Earth Hour is yet another in an endless series of symbolic events that define intergalactic participation in “something” as an end in itself.
I understand that there are those who believe that rapture is upon us because, over the past 100 years, the temperature on Earth has gone up a little less than one degree Fahrenheit. …
And on that last paragraph, I was reminded of the great words of CNN founder Ted Turner, who yesterday graced our brains with this fantastic prophesy with regard to the “man-made global warming” and all the excess humans who will, by the way, be forced to eat each other in a few years:
And finally, this entry from an Australian newspaper (online), the Herald Sun:
Earth Hour crashes to Earth
Andrew Bolt
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 11:01amCredit the public with sense. Earth Hour, hysterically promoted by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments, resulted in no significant fall in power usage.
Check the graphs from our National Electricity Market Management Company, tracking power use between 8pm and 9pm (a period in which demand always plummets):
[and you can go and see it there in an extended newspaper blog entry]
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