"Earth Hour," this year
celebrated on March 29th between 8:30 PM and 9:30 PM, claims to
be a "worldwide grassroots movement" but the oprganizer
admits that the idea actually came a "think tank"
initiated by Earth Hour CEO and Co-Founder, Andy Ridley,
resulting in the formation of a partnership between WWF (World
Wide Fund for Nature)Australia, Leo Burnett and Fairfax Media to
address the climate change
issue.
Sorry, but you can't be a
"grassroots movement" if you are really all about money
and power and political control, which pretty much sums up those
who are behind the "climate change issue." The Tea
Party Movement really is a good example of a genuine
"grassroots movement." About 2009, thousands of
individuals joined independently and on their own dime to support
a common set of values and principles held by America's founders.
There is no one leader, or CEO, or corporate backer for the
separate Tea Party groups that formed themselves and they
continue to maintain themselves independently of politicians who
try to claim them and own them and control them, without success.
The Earth Hour controllers, on
the other hand, are selling "Earth Hour Blue" as an
all-new digital crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform launched
in 2014, to capture the power of the crowd and engage people
around the world beyond the lights out event (on March 29th). The
crowdfunding section of the platform allows participants to financially support
and deliver positive, tangible changes to the environment and
communities all over the world. Individuals can also use Earth
Hour Blue’s crowdsourcing platform, which will call for
people to add their voice to some of the biggest environmental campaigns across the world. They pretend that things like
"carbon taxes" and collecting lots of money will
somehow "save the planet."
Those environmental campaigns are
all about "offsetting carbon footprints" and getting as
many people as they can to accept their concept of climate
change, which is basically still "global warming caused by
human activity" in their minds. They claim that they do not
want to engage in the use of scare tactics or shaming, but in
reality, that is the only tactic they have in their arsenal.
The Earth Hour bunch certainly
don't have science on their side. The act of turning out your
electric lights for one hour on March 29th will actually release
more carbon into the air in the form of both carbon dioxide and
carbon monoxide if you light any type of candles, including their
recommended beeswax or soy candles. Any fourth grader who has
studied science knows that it is the open flame of the candle
that produces carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The wax can
produce more or less actual carbon particles (soot) depending on
the type of wax used, but while that carbon soot is dangerous to
your lungs, it does not go into the atmosphere.
The "Earth Day"
Solution
Earth Day is more of a grassroots
movement than Earth Hour. So far it has not been taken over by
the climate change or global warming fanatics, and does not use
fund raising as a means of solving environmental problems.
Instead, it encourages people to simply clean up their local
environments, to plant trees and vegetables, and to avoid or stop
using pollutants in their everyday lives. To date, no one has
invented a "tax" pretending that money will "save
the planet" on Earth Day. Earth Day is more about learning
to live with our ever-changing planet than attempting to control
it so that it never changes. Politicians like to use Earth Day to
call attention to themselves and how much they love the Earth,
but no one is fooled by their "celebrations" when they
don't even show up in work clothes and bend over to pick up
litter or plant trees.
If you want to
participate in Earth Hour on Saturday, March 29th between 8:30 PM
and 9:30 PM, feel free, but change the rules a little bit in
favor of actually doing something that might help you learn to
live with your environment and clean it up a bit.
1. Do NOT give
one cent to anyone who claims to be "saving the earth"
and they can only do it with YOUR money.
2. Don't turn out
the lights and light up candles instead. Turn off the electricity
and take a nap for an hour instead.
3. Begin
replacing your household light bulbs with LED lamps one by one as
you can afford to, in order to reduce your use of electricity.
4. Add one solar
powered LED light to your house when you can afford to. Then next
year, instead of taking a nap, you can read a book under your
solar powered light when you turn off the electricity.
5. Begin making a
list of all the celebrities who preach about "saving the
planet" and who drive gas guzzling cars or fly in airplanes.
6. For Earth Day (April 22),
begin planting your garden indoors in a sunny window so you can
move the seedlings outside when you are sure winter is finally
over.
7. Spend at least an hour outside
cleaning up your neighborhood of litter, or adopting a local park
or other neglected area that needs cleaning.
