Earth Hour Page 2

Started by Eruption March 29th, 2008 10:18 AM
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Posted April 20th, 2020
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Has anyone heard of Earth hour?

Today, Saturday 28th, Earth Hour will make an effort to tell everyone to turn their lights out from 8-9PM to help stopping climate change.

Personally I think it wont stop climate change much but it could be my chance to experience blackouts like in WWII.

Still I think its a bad idea.

Your thoughts?
Everyone go on google. They've made it black to raise awareness for Earth Hour.
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Just finished it here. My brother and I were the only ones home but we got up and... made sure all the lights were off (we didn't have any on to begin with XD) and then we turned off the TV and the computers and played a few games by candlelight. It was kind fun. :D


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Well I'm the pessimist who thinks that we will defeat ourselves, so I'm all for this. I've only heard about it recently, but I did turn off everything in the house today and played basketball outside for a few hours.

Ironically, we had a power outage last night for about an hour...seriously :0
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so this is why google changed there theme. i was wondering why they did that. i dont know if this will work. not everyone will do this the world is to messed up.
But the point is that some will.

I think this is a great idea. Unlike a lot of people, I believe in global warming and I think I can make a difference. Say whatever you want, but haha you can't change the fact that I'm now a blackle user ^^.

It's been long but we can do it; let's make this our dream

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I did it, although I didn't find it productive at all. It was really dark out, so i couldn't do anything, not even read. I ended up just taking an hour long nap. It might be a meaningless gesture, but it's nice to know the world recognizes the need for energy conservation... although I'm sure some people just went double time on their consumption after being off for an hour.

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Did I miss it? Smeh... Problem with this Earth Hour is no one knows about it (at least no one I know including me...), so I laugh at its creators' lack of the ability to inform the public.

On a note on lights, everyone has them on unnecessarily, I even have mine on when right now my laptop's screen would suffice...

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I only just found out about it. So I had no idea it was happening. I think there should have been more done about it. it is a good idea and i think we need to start doing something about changing the environment.

I wondered why google was black. I thought it was my computer messing up.

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That's funny cause I didn't actually know about it until like... 10 that day ._.

Google inverted the site that day too. I was caught off guard. I was like "What in holy hell is happening? o___o;". I even thought I'd be smart by checking the colors on my computer xDD;

Oooooh geez I disappoint myself sometimes.

Ryoutarou

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Posted December 29th, 2020
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I don't know anything about this...o_0
Anyways...I don't think it is going to help change the climate anyhow. It sounds stupid to turn off the lights...xD
Reports are showing that (just like last year) this actually did a lot of good.

I think this should be made a monthly thing, but I'm not sure we're ready for it that often yet.

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Sorry if my views annoy you. Actually, to be honest, I'm not sorry, but... Yeah. =/Also, I'm not saying these people are representative of the majority, but I'm just commenting on these people.

Me? I didn't participate, actually -- but I know a fair few people who did. And I was honestly appalled at some of them. The general attitude with these people was... a kind of complacency. They turned off their lights for an hour, and this makes them EPIC SUPER CAPTAIN PLANET GREEN WARRIORS who had done a good thing. But, honestly, I think people are taking Earth Hour the wrong way. I think it was intended to be symbolic, to raise awareness if anything, because one hour without a light really doesn't add up to much. Congratulations if you didn't, but it doesn't mean you're some environment saver -- especially if you're doing it blindly. People will just do it because it's trendy to save the universe, but they don't actually put thought into it, which defeats the whole purpose.

My friend: Well, I did it. ^_^ I always like to save the environment~!
My friend II: ...But you were on the computer.
y friend: Oh... Haha... Yeah... I did turn off the lights though. ^^;

What the hell? This person had just done it like that without even thinking about what they were doing. They'd just turned the lights off and thought it stopped there. But, you know what, people? An hour's commitment means nothing, especially if you do it blindly.

I did a little research and your computer apparently can take from about 50-200 watts per hour. My figures are probably a bit rough, but they'll suffice.

If you really wanted to save power, turn your computer off as well. Turn off your television. Turn off your electronic devices. The lights for one hour is just a gesture.

If you really care so much, put in some effort.

No, I didn't do it, so maybe I seem hypocritical. But my reasoning still stands.

Okay, done with the angry rant soapbox crap now. Congrats to everyone who did it; I think it's great. I think it's great we can work together to do stuff like this.

Kinda irrelevantly, I didn't know Google went black, but then, I use an add-on to Firefox to make Google always black for me, so yeah. =o
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