What we need to do is use less electricity, but more importantly, we must be seen using less electricity. 

We see because of light created by electricity.

Inverting that statement, if we turn out the lights, we see less.  By seeing less, we know we are using less electricity, so we see a drop in the use of electricity when we don't see at all.

It's really rather obvious.

We can't see that we're using less electricity because the lights are out, but we can hear less electricity being consumed as people yell from stubbing their toes walking around in the dark.

Unassailable logic!

What I propose is that we all turn off the lights for one hour on one day and so reduce carbon emissions and cool down the Earth, restore the ice caps, bring the dodo back from the dead, and put GE out of business.  A single hour of darkness would also help us prepare for when the Kyoto folks succeed in wrecking industrial economies, and we are forced to sit in the dark 24 hours a day.

OK, this is embarrassing.

I had this great April Fool's joke all planned out.  A fake post suggesting that we could make a difference in climate change by turning off the lights in your house for one hour.

Imagine the laughter if I managed to get some fool to actually switch off a lamp, and then pat himself on the back for being so green.

Of course, no one could see him being so pleased with himself, grinning in the darkness.

I mean, the idea is so stupid that it has to be a joke.   Who would actually fall for it?

Well, guess what?  Someone beat me to the punch.  They actually did that.  Last Sunday.

It was called Earth Hour, and I totally missed it.

Here's the weird thing.  It wasn't a joke!

Well, it was a joke, of course, but incredibly no one seemed to get it.  Apparently people were turning off their lights all over the place, then shooting off fireworks or holding concerts to celebrate the accomplishment.

Presumably the fireworks were the combustible kind, and the concerts involved electricity gobbling sound systems and stage lighting.

I'm not sure why I missed Earth Hour.  I have a "stupid filter" which causes something in my field of view that exceeds a certain threshold of idiocy to become pixilated.

I can suppress it with some effort and force the details to resolve themselves, but it can be a strain.  That's why I get a headache trying to read through Liberal blogs.

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