Earth Hour

[Soup du Jour]

Some pictures of cities before and during Earth Hour.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...hour_2009.html

[PaulOakenfold]

Some pictures of cities before and during Earth Hour.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...hour_2009.html

They didn't show any view of Manhattan, whether the view of C-Park, Wallstreet, Midtown, Upper Midtown, the Village, or any of the Boroughs. I wonder why that is?

New York gives no FUCK.

[kthx]

Alot of those pictures were taken during daylight/nighttime to make them seem like people turning off their lights actually made any difference at all besides a Southparkesque Hybrid Episode sniffing of their own farts.

[Capital Knockers]

Alot of those pictures were taken during daylight/nighttime to make them seem like people turning off their lights actually made any difference at all besides a Southparkesque Hybrid Episode sniffing of their own farts.

Wark, if you want to say this shit won't work, fine go for it, don't participate. Why you're taking a completely opposite attitude just to be a jackass is my question? Just baiting? Or are you actually that much of an ass? Can it really hurt to TRY and save power, do something for the Earth? Or should we all continue wigglin' our thumbs around in our assholes constantly sayin' 'that's not a good enough idea, wait until we have a real one, fucking idiots' - and continue along that path. I'm sure that's really productive.

[PaulOakenfold]

I turned on all my computers/lights/cars/children and ran around the neighborhood with a tesla coil during Earth Hour, pumping Fuck the Police from my house.

[gran guerrero]

I downloaded porn

[DankNuggets]

i'm not sure that it would cause a huge strain... it's not like they would cease production during earth hour... and power is spread out in overly redundant grids to combat that. however, if it was a problem, they should have kept production low so that we'd all experience rolling brownouts.

THAT would send a louder message than anything else i can think of now.

[kthx]

Wark, if you want to say this shit won't work, fine go for it, don't participate. Why you're taking a completely opposite attitude just to be a jackass is my question? Just baiting? Or are you actually that much of an ass? Can it really hurt to TRY and save power, do something for the Earth? Or should we all continue wigglin' our thumbs around in our assholes constantly sayin' 'that's not a good enough idea, wait until we have a real one, fucking idiots' - and continue along that path. I'm sure that's really productive.

What the fuck is the problem, where is the fucking problem, I don't see a problem with the amount of electricity we are able to generate, nor do I see a problem upcoming in our lifetime or even our kids lifetimes because we still have at the minimum 150 years with population increases included of nuclear power left. There is no fucking problem, the environment doesn't need saving, and even if it did who the fuck really cares. No matter what we do were going to eventually use up every last resource on this planet there is nothing we can do about that. No matter what kind of hippie ass liberal you are you have to realize that people saying we have a problem is nothing but bullshit. Can it really hurt to try? Yes, because it is useless and fucking stupid, and if some random douchebag who makes up a day can convince you to turn off your power for a hour then what is next, are you going to change your lifestyle to that of a third world countries lifestyle? Are you seriously going to start grinding wheat into flour with windmills, and washing your clothes in the river? Our lifestyle is our lifestyle, and I am not going to go back to the days before AC and the other things that make my life comfortable because you think that the planet is going to die like some Al Gore version of Final Fantasy 7. So yes, you can sit here and cry and whine about me not caring because you are right, I really honestly don't give a shit about the planet, and im not going to go back to living in teepees and sending up smoke signals to communicate with people because you are a brainwashed liberal douche who has some sort of warped sense of an environmental conscious.

Look, in that picture about you can see the same fucking people who told you to turn off the lights and save the planet in a room with AC and 10 computer monitors on while all of you had to sit there and sit with YOUR thumbs up your asses in the dark without AC. Fuck that.

[Capital Knockers]

What the fuck is the problem, where is the fucking problem, I don't see a problem with the amount of electricity we are able to generate, nor do I see a problem upcoming in our lifetime or even our kids lifetimes because we still have at the minimum 150 years with population increases included of nuclear power left. There is no fucking problem, the environment doesn't need saving, and even if it did who the fuck really cares. No matter what we do were going to eventually use up every last resource on this planet there is nothing we can do about that. No matter what kind of hippie ass liberal you are you have to realize that people saying we have a problem is nothing but bullshit. Can it really hurt to try? Yes, because it is useless and fucking stupid, and if some random douchebag who makes up a day can convince you to turn off your power for a hour then what is next, are you going to change your lifestyle to that of a third world countries lifestyle? Are you seriously going to start grinding wheat into flour with windmills, and washing your clothes in the river? Our lifestyle is our lifestyle, and I am not going to go back to the days before AC and the other things that make my life comfortable because you think that the planet is going to die like some Al Gore version of Final Fantasy 7. So yes, you can sit here and cry and whine about me not caring because you are right, I really honestly don't give a shit about the planet, and im not going to go back to living in teepees and sending up smoke signals to communicate with people because you are a brainwashed liberal douche who has some sort of warped sense of an environmental conscious.

Look, in that picture about you can see the same fucking people who told you to turn off the lights and save the planet in a room with AC and 10 computer monitors on while all of you had to sit there and sit with YOUR thumbs up your asses in the dark without AC. Fuck that.

It's about having a positive mentality towards change. I agree one hour in a day of turning out lights once a year won't do shit, but you're attitude is poison. It can't hurt to try, because no one is asking you to break your fucking back or wash your clothing in a river. You're just pushing shit way out of proportion. Keep an open mind maybe rather than just holding your hands over your ears going NO NO NO CAN'T HEAR YOU, CAN'T BE HELPED, LAH LAH LAH. You're the kind of people future generations are going to hate, and while I'm sure you're fine with it, I'd rather say I at least was open to change, or attempting it. As long as I think it's something that would actually accomplish something.

Tell me, if an idea came along, that somewhere in your head you figured 'hey that might do some good, and wouldn't really inconveince me all that much' - would you do it, or still be a jackass out of principle?

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

What the fuck is the problem, where is the fucking problem, I don't see a problem with the amount of electricity we are able to generate, nor do I see a problem upcoming in our lifetime or even our kids lifetimes because we still have at the minimum 150 years with population increases included of nuclear power left.

It's times like these when I'm glad you have that double PhD in nuclear engineering and economics. DeVry saves the day again.

There is no fucking problem, the environment doesn't need saving

Again, your qualifications put my mind at ease.

and even if it did who the fuck really cares.

I live on this planet. I kind of like it here. Even if I didn't, there's not really much of a choice. You know, you live here too. Don't you like keeping your house clean? Does that not matter?

No matter what we do were going to eventually use up every last resource on this planet there is nothing we can do about that.

Sure, a lot of materials are finite--no one's disputing that. What we can change is the rate at which we use them up. We waste ENTIRELY too much, and don't think twice about it.

I'm not talking from some sort of neo-hippie perspective, I'm talking from the perspective of a guy who used to put out two or three bags of trash per week (for two people), and now only puts out about a bag of trash per month. From the perspective of a guy who used to buy a cup of coffee on the way to work every morning, and now just makes some at home and puts it in a reusable cup. It's not like we decided to stop doing things wholesale, we just decided to be a lot more conscious about what we buy and how we deal with waste. It's fucking SIMPLE and doesn't necessarily have to involve a big investment.

There ARE sustainable practices. Just because you're too thick to look them up or act on them doesn't mean they don't exist.

No matter what kind of hippie ass liberal you are you have to realize that people saying we have a problem is nothing but bullshit.

If Rush says so, it MUST be true!

Can it really hurt to try? Yes, because it is useless and fucking stupid, and if some random douchebag who makes up a day can convince you to turn off your power for a hour then what is next, are you going to change your lifestyle to that of a third world countries lifestyle?

I like how "being mindful of your energy waste" is somehow synonymous with "living like you're in the Sudan." You're such a stupid, stupid fuckface.

Are you seriously going to start grinding wheat into flour with windmills, and washing your clothes in the river?

No one's asking you to, but to think that we currently have all the best methods for doing things--well, that's just plain hubris (and again, fucking stupid).

Our lifestyle is our lifestyle, and I am not going to go back to the days before AC and the other things that make my life comfortable because you think that the planet is going to die like some Al Gore version of Final Fantasy 7.

The whole "our lifestyle is our lifestyle" excuse is total bullshit. No one gives a fuck if you grew up with the AC on high and the windows open. Fucking NO ONE. It doesn't make it right, or responsible at all.

I bet if your neighbors had a party and started bumping some loud music, you'd call the cops, right? You'd want them to turn it down. What if the owner of the place told you that you couldn't tell him what to do because his "lifestyle is his lifestyle?" Would you shrug your shoulders and be all "alright homey?"

My bet is that you'd call bullshit. I'm doing just that.

So yes, you can sit here and cry and whine about me not caring because you are right, I really honestly don't give a shit about the planet, and im not going to go back to living in teepees and sending up smoke signals to communicate with people because you are a brainwashed liberal douche who has some sort of warped sense of an environmental conscious.

No, you're being some stupid fuck who's too lazy and bullheaded to take responsibility for his own actions. Not that that's a shocker.

[kthx]

So what if I am too lazy or thoughtless to give a shit what happens to the planet a hundred+ years after I am dead and gone. I am sure you believe in Evolution being a liberal douche and all so I am sure you can understand that no matter what the human race evolves into something better eventually. Humans adapt to changes in our surroundings, thats why black people are black, mexican people are brown, and white people are white, we all adapted to where we lived. The same thing will happen WHEN and IF there is a problem in the future humanity will adapt and change when it is needed to survive. Turning off power for one hour, or cutting back your trash output from 3 to 1 bags a week, or not getting a cup of coffee in the morning isn't going to save the planet. And in the end, nobody gives a shit except yourself, so you can die happy with the earth being perfectly ok with your sense of accomplishment over all the trash that you didn't use. I personally plan on being cremated to pump out that last bit of Co2 into the air as one last fuck you to environmentalist faggots like you.

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

So what if I am too lazy or thoughtless to give a shit what happens to the planet a hundred+ years after I am dead and gone.

So let's say some guy with terminal cancer decides "fuck it" and singles out your family and goes on a homicidal ass-raping spree. Again, you'd just shrug your shoulders? I mean, he's not going to be around to live with any of the consequences, so why should he care?

I am sure you believe in Evolution being a liberal douche and all so I am sure you can understand that no matter what the human race evolves into something better eventually. Humans adapt to changes in our surroundings, thats why black people are black, mexican people are brown, and white people are white, we all adapted to where we lived. The same thing will happen WHEN and IF there is a problem in the future humanity will adapt and change when it is needed to survive.

If this is an evolution baiting, it's terrible. Even if I were a die hard evolutionist, it's generally accepted that it happens over MILLIONS of years, not a century or even two. Not that I think you have even the FIRST notion of what the theory even states. Either way, you're still uneducated. And this isn't a "gut feeling" sort of issue.

Turning off power for one hour, or cutting back your trash output from 3 to 1 bags a week, or not getting a cup of coffee in the morning isn't going to save the planet.

By myself? No, I wouldn't claim it would. But if lots of people do it, you better believe it would make a difference.

And in the end, nobody gives a shit except yourself, so you can die happy with the earth being perfectly ok with your sense of accomplishment over all the trash that you didn't use. I personally plan on being cremated to pump out that last bit of Co2 into the air as one last fuck you to environmentalist faggots like you.

Good for you, holmes. I don't ever want to hear some bullshit story from you about how someone has done you wrong, EVER, because hey, they're just living their lifestyle.

[kthx]

Yeah the only difference is... your comparing murdering or raping a family to polluting the environment, I don't see how you can even say that seriously. Of course liberal douches like yourself do see environmentalism as the new religion I guess. Do you know what would be even better for the planet, if you just killed yourself, then you won't cause the planet any more harm because you won't be here to create carbon gases that are turning the planet into a boiling inferno of scorching hellfire!

[kthx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyWmgU2t4WI

This is you, faggot.

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Yeah the only difference is... your comparing murdering or raping a family to polluting the environment, I don't see how you can even say that seriously.

You said that you didn't care about what you did because there were no immediate consequences. "Cancer man" is doing the same thing. Want me to draw you a picture? Maybe annotate that shit with some pie charts? Drop some muuufuckin line graphs with footnotes?

Of course liberal douches like yourself do see environmentalism as the new religion I guess. Do you know what would be even better for the planet, if you just killed yourself, then you won't cause the planet any more harm because you won't be here to create carbon gases that are turning the planet into a boiling inferno of scorching hellfire!

What a creative reply! Generally, though, it'd probably be better for the planet if I just killed you. After all, you're admittedly a bigger polluter. You're cool with that, though--right?

I mean, that's my lifestyle, mayne. No one tells me how to live my life!

This is you, faggot.

Looks like I touched a nerve! That's my lifestyle too!