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Holy Blackouts Batman!!
Google is urging us in the U.S. to participate in Earth Hour:
Don't mind me, though, I'm just catastrophizing.
(U.S. citizens: catastrophe here)
Damn. I gotz to learn to farm, find a cooperative bunch of Quakers, hippies, and Indians to get with. Might not be a bad idea to buy a gun, too--just in case.
Are we all fecked?![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Google is urging us in the U.S. to participate in Earth Hour:
Google users in the United States will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display. However, you can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation...
etc.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/earthhour/
Interesting event, interesting times. With the U.S. (and global) economy imploding, weird weather increasing (we have a couple of inches of snow on the ground here in late March; parts of Kentucky suffered massive flooding last week; tornadoes ripped through midland South Carolina a few weeks back; etc), oil production peaking and dropping off while consumption continues to soar, food prices escalating, food riots in Egypt (hope all is well with you, Sally) and elsewhere, and now google advertsing a massive token environmental initiative (good stuff, don't get me wrong), do all signs point to The Long Emergency? On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation...
etc.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/earthhour/
Don't mind me, though, I'm just catastrophizing.
Damn. I gotz to learn to farm, find a cooperative bunch of Quakers, hippies, and Indians to get with. Might not be a bad idea to buy a gun, too--just in case.
Are we all fecked?