Well, this is late, but well worth posting regardless!
Earth Hour shows how far we have come from celebrating human accomplishment to celebrating the lack of accomplishment as an accomplishment. For all the pretense of activism, environmentalism celebrates inaction. Don’t build, don’t create and don’t do– are its mandates. Turn off the lights and feel good about how much you aren’t doing right now.
Sultan Knish, “Night Falls on Civilization“
I abhor the ideas behind “Earth Hour” and its cousins; it’s all so perverse and regressive. We should celebrate the freedom and safety electricity has given us. If you want to see the stars, pack a light evening picnic, get into your car and drive to the countryside (of which, I assure you, there is a GREAT deal left in this country, and likely easily found within a half-hour’s cruise from your home). Man, I remind you, is part of nature—whether you buy into evolution or creationism or ID.
Continuing in his thoughtful, one-man battle against the mindset of environmentalists, Greenfield reminds us,
This preference is not scientific, it is emotional, rooted in an antipathy to industrialization and human development. It wraps itself in the cloak of science, but it is a reactionary longing for a romanticized past that never existed.
(emphasis added)
Go read the whole thing.
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