Since my lights are powered by nuclear fusion1, I will not be turning them off tomorrow night.
Instead I will be turning on all that I can, in order to celebrate human ingenuity and technology.
If you really care about the earth, why don’t you spend a month naked in the woods, without fire, which, after all, produces carbon emissions!
- The sun heats up the ocean, whence water vapor forms clouds, which precipitate rain onto the mountains, which runs into a turbine and powers my lights. ↩
That makes a lot of sense. If you don’t do anything the rest of the year to take care of the Earth, turning your lights off for 1 hour isn’t going to help. Kent and I were too busy watching The Bourne Supremacy to turn it off.