31 March, 2010

Environmental Overload

News of Earth Hour, a campaign by the World Wildlife Fund for us to turn all our electrical appliances off at 8.30 pm last Saturday, did not reach me until it was too late - to turn everything on.

'A night to remember!' said the WWF website. I should certainly think it was if you were on a dialysis machine. The self-righteousness of these campaigns really makes me ill.

In Canada Mr Barry Penner, the Environment Minister of British Columbia, one of those preachy types who had been pushing participation in this worthless event, lit candles round his house, in the process setting his cat, Ranger, on fire.

As the cat lit up the darkened night sky of British Columbia, the Penner family's carbon footprint went through the ceiling.

Fortunately most people weren't so dimwitted. The province's electricity load reduced by only 1%, the lowest in the three years they have participated.

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