First post in a while, I guess I must have been busy with something 
More on that later.
I just thought I’d do my little bit for the world and spread the word about Earth Hour. Sure it doesn’t seem like anything drastic in the grand scheme of things, but every little bit helps. So check it out, sign up and do your bit with me!
Hope you’re all doing well. I shall be posting a bit more soon.
February 14, 2008
Indeed
And for those that mock this event as a useless waste of time that doesn’t do anything to help, turn your negative into a positive and spread your word.
The only way governments will act is if we teach them its good policy. Grass roots all the way!
February 14, 2008
Yeah there’s a surprising amount of people who think it’s a wank. I had a good chat with a mate who’s view is that it’s futile. He’s entitled to his opinion, but it’s a shame that he’s not prepared to do whatever he can. Turning off lights/etc for an hour really isn’t much of an ask.
Let’s hope that the word spreads. Even if we extend the life of the planet by just a few minutes it’ll still be worth it!
February 14, 2008
It’s funny that people use the term “saving the planet” to describe using less energy (or polluting less, etc). Short of a huge antimatter bomb, the planet’s not going anywhere no matter what we do to it, and I very much doubt we could wipe out life on Earth either. The Earth has been through far greater changes in climate than we can ever do to it and seems to be getting along just fine.
What things like this are doing is trying to reduce the change we make to the planet. I think it’s worth doing that (and I try my best to reduce my impact) but thinking we can live in total harmony with the rest of the world is pure BS. Every single species in existence lives by exploiting some resource(s) or other species. The Earth’s climate was merrily changing away long before humankind’s 30,000 year existence.
We need to accept that we will make change to the planet no matter what we do, then in a few million years time when we’re (most probably) extinct another species will come along and do it all again.
February 22, 2008
The planet doesn’t need protection from us.
It’s us who need protection from it.
99% of all the species that have ever existed in history going back to the birth of life on Earth are extinct today? Why? Because instead of seeing to their own survival and adapting to changing conditions, they marched in parades with Al Gore.
Environmentalism is a form of maladaptation in evolutionary terms, just like Dodo birds.
We’ve been through eight previous Ice Ages. We are about to go through another. If you want, keep sorting your plastics and papers into different bins. It’s not going to keep you from starving to death.
The oceans have died in the space of a decade. Now the bees are expiring. It has nothing to do with mankind. It’s part of our passage through the galactic plane which absorbed our solar system countless billions of years ago. The corresponding effect on the Sun and the resulting reaction in the Earth’s magnetic core is the driver of climate on this planet. Not decomposing baby nappies and farting cows.
As for extinction, speak for yourself. You can follow the crowd if you want to up the slaughter ramp and spend your spare hours waving placards about the need to destroy all incandescent bulbs, I’m packing my rice and checking my water filtration system. Ask yourself which of these is the most adaptive response to the changes we see going on around us.
Oprah Winfrey and her dribbling followers are all going to find very shortly they no longer have the luxury of pretending to save the Earth. They are going to be worried about where their next meal is coming from, pulling out their hair from radiation loss or trying to beat off wild dogs with a stick.
I have an incredibly annoying way of turning out to be right, darn near about everything.
Last year on this blog I predicted the complete economic collapse of the United States and the ensuing warfare that would result. See if I have any credibility as a prophet. I bat about ten times better than anyone you have ever listened to on the televitzing device.