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I just saw the stupidest thing ever, on Google's home page. It's called "Earth Hour". I'll let the geniuses at Google explain: "Earth Hour invites one billion people in more than 2800 cities representing 83 countries to turn off their lights for one hour – tonight, Saturday, March 28 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Paris, Sydney, London, Cairo, New York, Los Angeles and Cape Town, will join together to demonstrate their commitment to energy conservation and sustainability." Beautiful. So taking us back to the literal dark ages - without electric lighting - is supposed to demonstrate a commitment to "sustainability". Sustainability of what, I wonder. Of stupidity? Of ignorance? Of political propaganda posturing as science? Of the cancer of fascism and communism? There is no need for energy conservation on planet Earth. Decades ago, human beings learned to harness the energy that is released by splitting atomic nucleii, the same process that powers the Sun. We don't have no steenkin' energy problem - we have a means of creating virtually unlimited energy! James P Hogan wrote a great piece about this long ago, titled "Know Nukes". We do have a steenkin' envirofascist problem, and it has infected all of the world's biggest companies now. And they want us to switch of our lights. Sit in the dark. Or maybe use candles? Oh no, won't that cause CO2 emmission? Better sit in the dark. And maybe crawl back into a cave too. If it was good enough for homo erectus, it's good enough for us! Yet another illustration of Packwood's Law ("Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil").
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