Last night was supposed to be the Greenies’ yearly tribute to Gaia – “Earth Hour.” Don’t know about you, but I forgot. In fact, I was busy with computer work and stayed up two hours later than usual – lights on, music playing, tv blaring. Oops.
 
The World Wildlife Federation organized this annual ceremony during which – under the guise of saving the planet – everyone is supposed to turn off all power and sit it the dark for an hour (and sing Kumbaya?).
 
Turns out Earth Hour is nothing more than a propaganda campaign. We know this, because it actually wastes energy to turn power on and off, as Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish astutely points out ~

Like all environmental gimmicks, Earth Hour is self-defeating as anything other than an assertion of identity and faith. Far more energy is consumed promoting it, than is saved by practicing it.
 
Websites switch to black, even though displaying black on television sets or monitors consumes more energy. Turning off electricity to entire buildings after working hours and then turning it on costs more than letting it run. And getting 90 million people across the country to turn their power on and off at a scheduled time is an energy savings disaster. And since power companies draw down on their more expensive ‘green’ generators first, Earth Hour actually shuts down ‘green’ power.

 
So if it’s not about saving energy, what’s the deal? Well, the real goal of Earth Hour (or we should say “surreal”) is to fundamentally change human nature. To knock us down to the level of say, locusts.
 

 
It’s all well and good to joke about this silly event but there’s a much darker side to the enviro-extremist movement, as Greenfield explains ~

The most active non-Muslim domestic terrorist group is environmental. The undercurrent of violence finds easy purchase in environmentalism’s creed that the only real problem with the world is people.
 
No amount of turning off the lights is enough. Eventually you come around to having to turn off the people.
 
The Nazis were among the most enthusiastic environmentalists of their day, even the term ‘Ecology’ was coined by Ernst Haeckel, whose racial views served as precursors to Nazi eugenics. But while Nazi environmentalist believed that we were all animals, they insisted that some animals were better than others. Modern environmentalists believe that we are all worse than animals. In their view we are both natural and unnatural. Natural because we come from the ape and unnatural because we are intelligent. We live on the planet, but our intelligence excludes us from ever belonging to it.

The incompatibility of productive man with the natural world is a fundamental tenet of the environmental movement. Everything we do is destructive because of what we are. We are tool builders, inventors and producers. And the environmentalist movement is aimed at convincing us to stop being these things. To turn off the lights, make do with less and march back to the caves with a few clever ad campaigns and a catchy tune […]
 
Man is the environmentalist’s devil. He must be beaten, broken and subjugated. Even the animals he has bred, who are the spark of his genius, must be taken out and killed. Take away his food and his power. Blame him for the natural cycles of the planet and the inevitable extinction of species that goes on whether he is there or not. Take away his technology and his inventions. Tell him that the humblest bacteria is better than him for it is dumb and follows its natural instincts while he insists on using his mind. Take away his primacy and his learning. And then leave him in the dark […]
 
Civilization and the moral code exist in the light of awareness, but the darkness is home to unthinking bestial things. To call for a return to the darkness is a profound act of symbolism. A civilization that celebrates a return to the darkness for even a single hour is longing for a return to a deeper state of darkness.

And so folks – on that cheery note – if you missed Earth Hour 2014, there’s always next year, when the slogan will be “Let’s all emulate North Korea!”
 

 
You should Greenfield’s entire article. He really nails the Extreme Green worldview for the dark soul-sucking philosophy that it is: Night Falls on Civilization.
 
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