Every hour should be Earth Hour

Here’s the Unsuitablog’s response to another farce going on this Saturday – WWF’s ‘Earth Hour‘:

Apparently, on March 28, millions of people will be turning off their lights for an hour, for Earth Hour. Yes, a whole hour when all sorts of really green places, like Las Vegas, New York and San Francisco, will be flicking off the lights in symbolic venues and, an hour later, turning them all on again, just to show that Industrial Civilization doesn’t really give a f*** about the planet, but likes a good joke: like the joke of Alanis Morrisette flicking her toenails in the tumbler of her fellow airline passenger.

Like the joke that you can be an airline passenger and, at the same time, talk about saving energy.

Like the joke that trivial, symbolic activities, such as Earth Hour do anything other than make people think they have done something worthwhile.

Stop messing about with trivia and do something real.

Much like the pointless Earth Day, this event will serve no real benefit to the planet.  The few kilos of carbon potentially saved from entering the atmosphere will be more than made up for as civilisation continues to plunder the planet and economic growth outstrips any carbon saving.   This is meant to raise awareness about the environment, yet will in fact only reinforce the idea that all that needs to be done to solve this crisis is some simple conservation and efficiency measures, whilst continuing with business as usual.  And all this for one pitiful hour!  Doesn’t the earth deserve more than just one hour, or even one day?  Isn’t it always earth time anyway, or are we meant to only get away with being aware of our life support system for an hour a year?  If you want to show the world you really care about is future, take part in the dismantling of the systems that are threatening it – help bring down the growth system and dismantle civilisation.  Every hour is Earth Hour, and every day is Earth Day!