My 8 year old daughter dashed into the house with great excitement, in hand a one page colored glossy from school. Tomorrow is earth hour daddy, look, look, we get to shut the lights down and save the planet. Yay.
It did work on my daughter i admit, and on many of you. Twitter is a buzz with #earthhour this, and #earthhour that. People sat in the dark, can you believe that. For one hour, many gave up the privilege of electricity and joined many 3rd world countries who dont have it. I grew up in one of them, there was no earth hour, there was earthmonth, no power, no heat, nothing.
Now, lets take Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, last year for earth hour, a great success story. All in, we saved 4% of our consumption, the equivilant of, are you ready….. 1 house off the grid for 4 years. A lot of brew ha ha over nothing, more power was wasted on printing my daughters earth hour ads than what was saved. The amount of energy spent making this happen was more than what was saved, worse yet, in ottawa, over 2000 homes where built this year, we need to sit in the dark for a month to make up the difference.
So, if you participated in earth hour, I really hope you feal awesome, now we can all go back to our wasteful ways.
Congrats
