Or at least the people promoting it. Check out the AP video above (via Newsbusters) in which Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore says:
“We are sending a very strong message to our world leaders tonight and now we are asking our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to lead the charge with what is happening in Copenhagen.”
You’re also voluntarily allowing the cameraman taping you to use plenty of additional lighting based on your appearance in the video, very smoothly and evenly lit amidst a darkened nighttime background. But then, that’s par for the course.
Update: In the comments, polite, enlightened Aussie Earth Hour practitioner “Wadard” sagely writes:
OK numbskull, would you prefer a darkened image of her?
I mean, seriously, just how damned thick are ya, cobber? Are you the type whinges about hospitals leaving life-support systems on during Earth Hour? Bet you are.
I have to go now Duane, because I’m due back on Planet Earth.
But taking the mayor’s mindset to its illogical conclusion, she shouldn’t allow herself to be recorded at all, given the electricity and lighting required to transmit her images. (And what about all the trees destroyed for newsprint?)
However, this isn’t my religion, so I’m not bound to follow its self-imposed “rules.”
In actuality, I’m quite relieved that hospitals, airports, and every house in my neighborhood hasn’t succumbed to this new re-primitivization. Including Wadard himself, who is at least illuminated by the light from his computer’s monitor. I wonder if he even voluntarily deleted his blog during Earth Hour so as to conserve its server’s electricity.
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1. Ed Driscoll » The New Endarkenment:[...] More Earth Hour video madness here. Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, Liberal Fascism, Muggeridge’s Law, [...]
Mar 28, 2009 - 8:57 pm 2. Wadard:OK numbskull, would you prefer a darkened image of her?
I mean, seriously, just how damned thick are ya, cobber? Are you the type whinges about hospitals leaving life-support systems on during Earth Hour? Bet you are.
Sense of proportion, please?
Mar 28, 2009 - 9:19 pm 3. Jim Clarke:Dear Wadard, In answer to your first question, YES please! Infact we would rather she wasn’t preaching to us at all.
Mar 28, 2009 - 10:07 pm 4. Wadard:In answer to your second question, you don’t understand irony at all, do you?
Jim Clarke:
“Dear Wadard, In answer to your first question, YES please! Infact we would rather she wasn’t preaching to us at all.”
OK monkeybrain, then it’s wholly up to you to not press the play button on the UTube thingy!! You are an adult, are you not?
“In answer to your second question, you don’t understand irony at all, do you?”
Errr, you are the twit who doesn’t understand irony. Let me give it to you in baby pieces…
1) Earth Hour is an awareness raising event
2) That camera thingy, with it’s ability to record images for transmission…. that’s an awareness raising tool (as opposed to the author of the blog, who is an awareness-deficient tool)
So I’ll say it again… WTF wouldn’t Clover Moore want to be illuminated for the camera on Earth Day if she is raising awareness????
Jesus, you two are prime idiots!
Mar 28, 2009 - 10:33 pm 5. Wadard:“In actuality, I’m quite relieved…”
Oh gawd, Driscoll has been knocked-out by his own strawman one time two many, and is now showing symptoms of being punch drunk. Any other irrational mood swings brought upon by you over-coming your imaginary fears? Checked under your bed for reds lately?
Mar 28, 2009 - 10:44 pm 6. Bob's Kid:This is a strange one, Ed. But let him vent. It probably boosts his self-esteem thinking he’s so much cleverer than you, and he clearly needs to feel good about himself for something (because he doesn’t have a very good grasp on reason).
Mar 28, 2009 - 10:46 pm 7. Ed Driscoll:“and is now showing symptoms of being punch drunk.”
Punch drunk? That’s above my pay grade.
Mar 28, 2009 - 10:51 pm 8. Topics about Religion » Irony, Thy Name Is Earth Hour:[...] Private Beach created an interesting post today on Irony, Thy Name Is Earth HourHere’s a short outlineHowever, this isn’t my religion, so I’m not bound to follow its self-imposed “rules.” [...]
Mar 29, 2009 - 12:43 am 9. Eric:Then of course there’s the scene at the end of the video where dozens of hot air balloons are firing up their fossil-fuel powered propane burners to point out to us how important it is to reduce our carbon footprints. Awareness-raising indeed.
Mar 29, 2009 - 6:13 am 10. Wadard:Ed, we’re just asking you to reason, not save the global economy.
Mar 29, 2009 - 6:42 am 11. steveaz:Loved the Annie Walken youtube clip, Ed.
You put the perfect metaphor in there – scarily perfect.
Mar 29, 2009 - 8:52 am 12. Ed Driscoll » Al Gore Leaves The Light On For Ya:[...] guesses as to the level of illumination at Chez Gore during this sacred event. Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Liberal Fascism, The Assault On [...]
Mar 29, 2009 - 12:16 pm 13. Christopher Taylor:we’re just asking you to reason,
This coming from the guy who can’t work out the irony and hypocrisy of burning all that energy and those lights celebrating the attempt to not use energy and turn on lights?
Heh…
Mar 29, 2009 - 6:05 pm 14. Ed Driscoll » New Silicon Graffiti Video: “I’m From The Federal Government…”:[...] on Saturday March 28th, we were hectored about our energy use, in the form of the anti-progress “Earth Hour.” On Saturday March 29th, the CEO of General Motors was ousted by President Obama, because he [...]
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