Comments on: Earth Hour http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/ News and Analysis from Different Moderate Perspectives Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Free Thinker http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36570 Free Thinker Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:28:13 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36570 <strong>With a snowstorm raging on the eastern prairies during earth hour it would seem to be incredibly stupid to sit in the dark and freeze. </strong> With a snowstorm raging on the eastern prairies during earth hour it would seem to be incredibly stupid to sit in the dark and freeze.

]]> By: Sy http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36524 Sy Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:08:48 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36524 "It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour ..." In the dark? "It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour …"

In the dark?

]]> By: Rockeyes http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36483 Rockeyes Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:49:48 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36483 Got to start somewhere. It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour without the drone of a poor quality program on the TV in the background.  However, if we really care and the government practices what it preaches, why are we and it hell bent on disrupting millions of lives by destroying houses and pastures, creating tonnes of polluting gases and producing unwanted noise pollution by expanding air traffic and airports? How is it the Spanish owned company BAA can dictate to us these demands?   Is it morally acceptable that every person is paying more and more tax in the name of the environment yet it?s still cheaper to fly from one end of the UK to the other for a ?Good night out? than it is to drive or catch a train to see friends or family that are only a fraction of that distance away?  When we start to pay congestion charges to pop into our local town and paying per mile to get to work via ?smart CCTV?s? and ?chipped cars? will it be then that we ask who is really gaining from all this?    Got to start somewhere. It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour without the drone of a poor quality program on the TV in the background.  However, if we really care and the government practices what it preaches, why are we and it hell bent on disrupting millions of lives by destroying houses and pastures, creating tonnes of polluting gases and producing unwanted noise pollution by expanding air traffic and airports? How is it the Spanish owned company BAA can dictate to us these demands?   Is it morally acceptable that every person is paying more and more tax in the name of the environment yet it?s still cheaper to fly from one end of the UK to the other for a ?Good night out? than it is to drive or catch a train to see friends or family that are only a fraction of that distance away?  When we start to pay congestion charges to pop into our local town and paying per mile to get to work via ?smart CCTV?s? and ?chipped cars? will it be then that we ask who is really gaining from all this?   

]]> By: Michael van der Galien http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36446 Michael van der Galien Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:41:28 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36446 It's earth hour here as well Dylan and... no one's doing anything here either. Or they just have very strong candles. Susan, thank you! It’s earth hour here as well Dylan and… no one’s doing anything here either.

Or they just have very strong candles.

Susan, thank you!

]]> By: Dylan http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36445 Dylan Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:35:28 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36445 Michael, check out google.fr or some of the other Google sites in Europe (google.de or google.com/intl/sl for Slovenia). None of them are blacked out. Seems Google is all for Earth Hour as long as you only search in English. (BTW - As I type it is still Earth Hour here in France and no one is doing anything as far as I can see...) Michael, check out google.fr or some of the other Google sites in Europe (google.de or google.com/intl/sl for Slovenia). None of them are blacked out.

Seems Google is all for Earth Hour as long as you only search in English.

(BTW - As I type it is still Earth Hour here in France and no one is doing anything as far as I can see…)

]]> By: Susan Duclos http://www.poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36440 Susan Duclos Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:24:02 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour/#comment-36440 Good for you. These feel good gimmicks are nothing more than that, they accomplish nothing and ignore any long term ideas or solutions. Well said Michael. Good for you. These feel good gimmicks are nothing more than that, they accomplish nothing and ignore any long term ideas or solutions.

Well said Michael.

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