Earth Hour Is Sad

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***UPDATE***

I don’t mean sad like pathetic. Earth Hour makes me and all capitalists filled with an uneasy sorrow.

Here’s our interview with Drew Johnson on how Al Gore celebrated Earth Hour.

 

Dr. Keith Lockitch from the Ayn Rand Institute:

Here is the moral argument against the environmentalist movement and the definition of the Anti-Industrial Revolution:

This is the beginning where we talk specifically about Earth Hour:

From his editorial:

The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Its call for people to renounce energy and to rejoice at darkened skyscrapers makes its real meaning unmistakably clear: Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.

Here is the story about wind turbines in Spain:

In Spain, where wind turbines provided 11 percent of power demand last year, generators earn rates as much as 11 times more for renewable energy compared with burning fossil fuels.

Here is New York City at night:

Here is Toronto during Earth Hour. How sad:

Hong Kong before and during:

Sydney before and during:

In North Korea, EVERY hour is Earth Hour. Which economy has benefited human kind more; North Korea or the United States?

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