Comments on: Am I The Only One Who Thinks That Earth Hour Is Stupid?

By: mervyn

mervyn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:46:48 +0000

@shaike i suppose you're one of those adults who walked outside during earth hour and counted the number of houses without their lights off, each followed by a click of your tongue and shake of the head.

jo: seems like it. moralists. pfft. -

By: kellster

kellster — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:28:37 +0000

well said babe

jo: heyeyy:) thanks:) -

By: fateha

fateha — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:44:25 +0000

didnt work for me in singapore too. what a shame isn't it?

jo: haha. what a shame indeed. -

By: Sanity

Sanity — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:21:41 +0000

You are not alone. Earth hour is stupid, global warming is stupid as well. There was an ice age !! Several ! They ended without any help from SUV’s or power plants. Now the geniuses behind this global idiocy will give many “theories” about what caused the ice ages, what ended them etc. etc. but honestly they have no clue, they weren’t there and peering back through time with science has a measurement variability so wide that it’s virtually useless. I question how measuring temps for 20 years can be extrapolated to millions of years with any sort of accuracy and their grasping beyond these measures with the ice cores and the other geologic garbage they come up with is junk science. When they can take one of their models apply it to 40 years ago and produce today’s results, maybe they’ll have an argument. Until then, if you can’t prove how we got here, why should I believe you can prove where we’re going? They claim great brilliance but can’t explain very common phenomena i.e. Why is there lightning? (Many theories, no answers.) What lives here on earth? (Thousands of new species discovered in past 5 yrs.) What are the larger scale electrical disturbances much more powerful than lightning that constantly pulsate in the outer atmosphere? (NO CLUE at all on that one.) When do earthquakes occur? (When they did is the best they can do.) When do volcanoes erupt? (Sometimes is their best guess.) They know NOTHING about earth but are godlike in their climate knowledge? NO.

jo: lol interesting read. read it all a few days ago, but it’s 2.46am and I can’t read everything again. thanks for the comment. it makes sense.

By: shaike

shaike — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:43:32 +0000

Its an awareness campaign to educate people of the imminent dangers of global warming. Its not for now, its for the future. It is clear from comments hear that young people are not educated enough on the imminent destruction of the earth if we dont do something about it now. 30 years from now. When your children complain why is it so hot outside, I hope you remember this posting.

jo: well, based on your comment, old people aren't as rational as they are cut out to be. You assume that the young people here do not do their part for the environment. So by not hopping on to the stupid bandwagon, we're lost causes? 30 years from now, dementia would've been something that happened long ago for you. Good day! -

By: CWen

CWen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:59:02 +0000

earth hour is plain stupid..
just another publicity..
if u wanna save d planet… dun juz do for tht plain 1 hour…
btw earth hour only require u to off ur light.. not ur fan n other electrical supplies..

jo: lagi teruk right… if dun off the other things, what’s the purpose of only turning off ur lights? other electrical appliances use more tenaga wat..

By: jv

jv — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:21:38 +0000

i kinda agree with vern.swt.my last name is also vern.[great minds(and names)think alike.] and you too.

WWF started this to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change and global warming.
but then there’s this bunch of useless people who normally don’t really care if Earth explodes but then they join and advertise about Earth Hour because it’s the innest and coolest thing now in Facebook .
yeah. if we did our part of recycling and all, it’s obviously better than those who just switched off their lights tonight and then continue wasting electricity after that.then the next morning they go tell everyone:”hey! i joined earth hour yesterday(i’m such a great person)!”
and then some even organized countdowns to this earth hour thing.ugh.really.agree with you.Totally defeats the purpose.and lame way to gain publicity.
i mean, if you wanna join this, just join it la. why need to advertise.they don’t advertise on HOW to join earth hour, but HOW GREAT are they to join this campaign.

but then the objective behind this campaign isn’t really that stupid after all.just the people who misused it for their own interests.

jo: EXACTLY. I can’t stand it how it’s so cool to be doing this Earth Hour thing on facebook. it’s like doing charity and shouting it out to the world.

By: sue me

sue me — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:20:18 +0000

Earth Hour is soooooooooooooo overrated. As if that one hour of no lights can help the world from avoiding global warming. Helping the planet is all about practicing it even without this Earth Hour thingy.. I am going to be out tomorrow and see what will happen to KL..doubt much lights will be switch off..

jo: so was KL nice to look at during Earth Hour? LOL funny thing is that I do earth hour for approx 10 hours each day. Such is the life of a busy student.

By: vern

vern — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:31:45 +0000

well, i really think it’s up to how you wanna see it.

if some ppl decide to use it as a publicity stunt, then that’s too bad. but if you look beyond these ppl who misuse this noble cause n into the in the humble intention, maybe it’s not so stupid afterall.

maybe one hour is not so much but at least it’s a good start for some ppl. it’s to raise awareness.

if one person were to switch off his/her electricity for an hour, maybe that won’t make much of a difference. but when ALL malaysian were to be united (for once irrespective of race n religion for the good of mother nature) n switch off everything for an hour, now THAT would make a lot of difference.

what is the amount of energy consumed taken to restart the aircond in ur room n fridge compared to the amount of energy saved in tt one hour when klcc, kl tower, malls etc. etc. switch off and all malaysians switching off as much electricity as possible?

we lose ntg by swtiching off electricity in tt one hour. at most u’ll feel a bit hot n in the dark. on the brighter side, u save some $ also in ur bill.
the biggest loser is probably TNB but even they lend their support to this cause.

well, don’t mean to lash out at ur personal theories but tis is just my 2 cents

jo: ahh.. no difference if one malaysian turns off his/her light and plenty malaysians turning off their lights would make a difference! But imagine the power surge this collective group of people would cause when the clock struck 9.30 that night. Nah, no worries. it’s good to have a bit of a discussion every now and then.

By: lincll

lincll — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:49:27 +0000

yeah jolene~~!
earth hour is waaay overrated, switching off “non-essential” lights for one hour definitely isn’t gonna do anything concrete to “save the earth”.
it’s pure “symbolism” (that’s how one of the ads defended earth hour) which is just another word for “pr stunt/gimmick.”
especially to those who r planning on candlelight dinners to celebrate earth hour: did you ever think all those smoke from the candles kinda defeats the whole purpose?
the cause earth hour is highlighting (global warming) is definitely noble, but we can+should do so much more is we really wana save the earth. eg: switching off the air-cond when your room is already cold, avoid using water-heater as much as possible, maybe designate a day every week where you don’t use your car…
these steps are definitely more meaningful than sitting in the dark for one measly hour.

jo: yeapp..pr stunt. that;s what i read in one of the articles. yalor.. i too think that if we want to be good to the planet, we should cultivate it into our habits.