New Zealand Conservative

Earth hour must be resisted.  It pays homage to the pagan gods of the planet.  It signifies a guilt for our human presence here on this planet.  It calls for cultural suicide. Previous Earth Hour Posts: Not dancing naked under a full moon ~ 2008 Worshipping the Environment ~ 2009 --ZenTiger Neighbourhood Message Insert-- Read about Dirt Day and Save the Planet in one hour and other ideas

I forgot to add The Environment when I listed the modern gods we sacrifice our unborn babies to. While I won't be joining the anti-Earth hour protest (hattip M&M ), I also will not turn anything off in order to join in with those who want to turn the lights off for the planet. --ZenTiger Neighbourhood Message Insert-- Read about Dirt Day M and M ask the tough questions: What are you doing to protest Earth Hour

I see the concept of turning the lights out for an hour a year gaining momentum . Christchurch has placed dibs on being the city of darkness for New Zealand, but Wellington also promises not to use the new wind turbines at Makara for an hour in March 2009. They call this Earth Hour! Since the greens, the political left, politicians, children, and the politically correct think this such a powerful statement, I am willing to consider getting behind the idea and using it for other political statements. For example, Rocket Hour! Israel could be invited to fire rockets into the largest city of each country in the world. They would have a cap of the number of rockets fired into Israel over the year (so a mere couple of thousand). They could do this for just one hour every year. The main stream media would apparently say bugger all about it (as they do now when rockets fall into Israel), and we all accept this new form of "news in empathy". The world pretends Isra...