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[noodleann]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

Switch off your lights for the hour - purpose is to spread awareness of sustainability and climate change. 

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I'm missing something here. How does sitting in a dark house for an hour spread awareness of anything? A dark house is a dark house. I don't need the lights out to know that climate change is here. I just look at how much I've spent on #2 fuel this winter, and that's keeping the house at 56 to 58 degrees. The A/C won't go on this summer--and that's in one room only--until we hit triple digits or have a run in the 90s.

AFAIC, I've seen the light, so I'm keeping mine on. They're CFL or LED, used as needed.

[ValuSkr]

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@noodleann wrote:

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@ValuSkr wrote:

Switch off your lights for the hour - purpose is to spread awareness of sustainability and climate change. 

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I'm missing something here. How does sitting in a dark house for an hour spread awareness of anything? A dark house is a dark house. I don't need the lights out to know that climate change is here. I just look at how much I've spent on #2 fuel this winter, and that's keeping the house at 56 to 58 degrees. The A/C won't go on this summer--and that's in one room only--until we hit triple digits or have a run in the 90s.

AFAIC, I've seen the light, so I'm keeping mine on. They're CFL or LED, used as needed.

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@noodleann   That's okay, you're excused.  I think the idea is to increase awareness / get people talking about it.  And in that it succeeds.  I'm like you - I don't run the A/C at all in summer and in winter the house temp is never over 60 and rarely over 58.

[aroc3435]

@CherryHugs   Thank you for the "heads up" since I didn't see it mentioned on the newcasts this year.  I will be participating.  It's a small thing but the power of one can help to affect the greater good, or so I believe.

[sidsmom]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

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@froggy wrote:

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@ValuSkr wrote:

Switch off your lights for the hour - purpose is to spread awareness of sustainability and climate change. 

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How about if all those VIPs who go to climate change conferences stop taking their private jets when they travel?

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That's a good idea.  I don't know if it really happens but, if it does, they can telecommute next time.  We appreciate their efforts to address such intractable problems.

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Analogy

It’s easier to ask a million people to give $1 than

asking 1 person to give a $1,000,000.

Proves just how much power the ‘little man’ has.

I might be the equivalent of a micro-mini mini on the World Scale 

but my actions still matter.  Cumulative Effects count.

[Pearlee]

I sure hope the lights don't go off on runways!  Although that would certainly help with world overpopulation.   

[shoesnbags]

Well, I'll be at a play tonight.  I can't imagine that they will switch off the lights lol.

[sidsmom]

[this is my nic]

Has Earth Day been downsized? 

[ValuSkr]

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@this is my nic wrote:

Has Earth Day been downsized? 

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LOL  One would think!  Actually Earth Day is April 22.  I don't know why Earth Hour is another day but that's okay.

[PickyCindy]

Oh my word, I thought at first you were referring to the Earth brand shoes.  lol