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I'm good thanks.

Yah, fudge the one planet we have! That'll show... the planet!

It seems like more of a feel-good way to think you are making a difference when you aren't actually making a difference.

365 days X 24 hours = 8760 hours in a year. So by doing this hour you are saving 11 hundredths of a percent of your energy use. If your monthly electric bill is around a hundred dollars, it will be a penny less.

But wait, in the US, residential energy use comprises only 16% of total energy consumption according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

So if we all did this it would represent sixteen ten thousandths of a percent difference. (0.00159817%)

Addressing climate change isn't going to happen from one hour of good vibes every year. It's going to take a lot of money (both big investments on the corporate end, and pain points on the consumer end). It's going to take governments cooperating to disincentivise profiting from climate harming business practices, which is going to take politicians who aren't actively anti-science and aren't bought and paid for by lobbyists for those climate harming businesses.

Ok....seriously...what past user is DGarcia?

DGarcia78part2

Sorry but I can only take seriously the comments of DGarcia78part4.

benstylus wrote:

Nobody is pretending this is going to solve any real issue. It's a demonstration to build awareness regarding pointless energy consumption, that's all. Openly refusing to do it solely as a flex is silly, easy enough to simply not do it if you don't want to do it for all the reasons you pointed out.

That said my post was entirely a tongue-in-cheek joke not to be taken seriously in the first place but I should've known better haha

I drive an EV, sooo....

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Yes, I know EV are worse for the environment than gas cars, don't @ me.

theJaw wrote:

My post was a reply to the original, just happened to be the post right after yours

I'll be watching TV. I consider it essential electronics.

I'm a vegetarian. That likely saves more of the planet per year than the entire site during off their power for an hour. So, I'm not going to feel guilty about watching TV tonight...

@Kommie no please! No… NoooOOOOOOO!!!

@benstylus no worries brother

John wrote:


There they go again... lol

Only announcing it because it is relevant to the discussion. I hear people all the time talking about the little things we should do to conserve water, reduce CO2, reduce power usage, and so on -- and the reality is that going vegetarian does all of those things many times over almost everything else we can do -- and yet I rarely see those people who are asking everyone to help do their part actually doing that themselves. Heck, even getting a "Meatless Monday" out of them is nearly impossible. But they'll ask the world to turn off their lights for an hour! *eyeroll*

I'm doing my part to murder global warming by not flying a private jet.

My comment was a joke. Fact is buying goods made in China, India, and other countries ignoring climate concerns is the biggest culprit to global climate concerns.

Doesn't matter, we will soon escalate to a nuclear war, so global warming is the least of our concerns.