Half way through earth hour here which means The Kiwis have had it and the rest of the world are still about to.
I did my bit, put on all the lights out the front and the back and I have a LOT of lights out there. Good job it's blowing a gale out there tonight or I could have had the student pilots from the local airport 3 Km away trying to do touch and goes in the back yard and down the drive way.
Never let it be said I don't do my bit for stupid and moronic causes.
Had I remembered this afternoon, I would have done more and put a few extra lights out. I went through town this morning and while waiting at the crossing for some poor old digger I was wondering If I should get out and carry to the other side, saw a sign saying the fairy lights in the trees down the center of the road would be switched off between 8:30 and 9:30 to support earth hour.
Oh please!
Really shows the mind numbing stupidity of this garbage.
They will have every other municipal building lit up like Christmas, all night Including the show ground as they have for the last week in preparation for the local show they are setting up for and be burning probably hundreds of KW hours per night over all but think they are achieving something turning off the fairy lights for an hour that probably don't even pull a KW all up.
Maybe we should pull the plug on twits who come up and promote this crap? I wonder how many resources and how much energy WAS used in making a song and dance about it? I would GAURANTEE there was more energy expended on designing and printing this large and plentiful signs all round town let alone the others in the district than what switching the fairy lights off would ever save not to mention all the other resources that went into them including paying people to drive round and put them up then on Monday go round and take the damn things down again.
I'll guarantee the most prominent supporters of this garbage are the inner city trendy types that don't even have a solar panel on their shoebox apartment roofs but think they are saving the world and achieving something with this rubbish.
This save the environment/ co2 / feelgood crap really has gone too far and is just an insult to peoples intelligence with crap like this