The bigger picture. (It's not about lights)?

Question

It's not really about the lights.

Has anyone maybe thought about why on a Sat night during premiere TV hours and family time they chose to do this?

Families are together at home with all the lights on with tv's, computers, sucking up energy while staring at the tv.

Maybe turning off the lights and other stuff builds some family time to share something bigger and better than staring at the tv, and gives the world something positive to share in rather than what B Spears or Iraq is doing this week.

It's a change and a positive change for you, me, our families, and our environment.

It brings people together to share in something that's bigger than the 4 walls of the room your sitting in. It has become an actual global event, but shouldn't stop an just one hour a year.

Answer 1

Doesn't  take all that baloney to bring my family together

thanks catso

Answer 2

Your right it is not about the lights. It is about the way we produce energy and the way we use it. How many power plants were turned off? If none, what did we save? Read Walt Patterson: Down with conservation.

Answer 3

You're exactly right.  Even if you don't believe Global Warming is happening (in which case you should probly go dig yourself a hole), if you did it, you realized that you DON'T need electricity to live (huh!! what a concept!).  But, only a very small fraction of the emissions-producing societies in the world actually turned off all electricity.  And even in the cities that pledged to turn off the power, do you know how many people DIDN'T turn it off?  You hit it right on the head when you said it shouldn't be just one hour out of the entire year.  Just this ONE hour of no electricity of what may be the smallest fraction EVER of cities, homes, and businesses turning off the power will have VERY little impact.  True, the whole point is to raise awareness, but while you're doing that, you could at least put a little more effort into it.

Answer 4

No, it is stupid. And it really is just about the lights.

Answer 5

Your right. I think that everyone should turn their TVs and Computers off for at least one hour a day and just enjoy the company of their family.

Answer 6

Its a good thought, but in all reality I think you are giving them to much credit. The same people you are talking about are the ones shoving all the doom and gloom down everyones throats why would they want you to stop watching. Good try though!

Answer 7

>humans psyches tends to dismiss threats because threats produce anxiety so natural defence mechanisms and self-survival instincts set in

> in 42 years the human population will increase by 50% to 9 billion

> in the past century total mass of vertebrates halved whereas total mass of humans quadrupled

> if everyone used the same rate of resources as America we would need 5 Earths

> 96% of glaciers surveyed are melting, some such as the Grindelwald , Rhone, and Gepatschfermer Glaciers are all but gone

> Himalayan glaciers are third biggest chunk of ice on the planet, two thirds will be melted in 42 years, 300 million Chinese will have no water for crops which as a single event is enough to throw the world into a global food deficit situation and a humanitarian catastrophe

> 15% of animals are threatened with extinction today, 12% of all birds, 20% of reptiles, 23% of mammals, 31% of amphibians, and 40% of all fish

> humans clear an area of woodland the size of Portugal every year

> there are 800 million cars in the world today, in just 23 years China will add 1100 million cars to that, then think about India with a billion people wanting westernised economic prosperity

> the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today is the highest for over 750,000 years

> economic growth is the guiding principal around which every society coheres however economic growth in the long term will cost more than it is worth (Stern Report 2006)

> Western countries export 2500 tonnes of electronic waste to Nigeria every month and yet thousands of miles away Inuit Indians in Greenland have amongst the highest concentration of E-Waste in their blood

> we as humans are currently taking a risk with the current state of the Earth by pushing toward a new state which we know nothing about and which we may not be able to cope with

> the 22 hottest years ever recorded have occurred since 1980

> in 1997 world leaders said “we have no time to lose, climate change is too serious for the world to ignore, and we must act NOW”. In 2005 world leaders (some the same people) said exactly the same thing.

> in just 2 years there will be 50 million environmental refugees

We are now armed with this knowledge and with knowledge we have a window of opportunity to fix things for our children.

Answer 8

No I did not think about why a saturday night was chosen. I agree with what you said.  You answered your own question or what there another question hidden in your rambling?

Answer 9

We all sub-conciously do what BIG BROTHER wants us to do.  It is all in the game of things. Our parents raised us with those ideas and we are mostly carrying them on in our life and actions.

Answer 10

I would like to see the big skyscrapers and factories go dark (except for safety lighting) when they are empty or closed.

Let businesses also do their part before we shut off too many of our CFL lights or TVs.