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While Communists and human-haters everywhere are degrading themselves during Saturday’s “Earth Hour” by cowering in the dark, I’ll be turning on the lights and celebrating the glorious achievements of mankind during “Human Achievement Hour”! Won’t you join me?
In 2007, the World Wildlife Fund convinced 2.2 million Australians in Sydney to turn off their lights for the first Earth Hour. During this period, we presume the Aussies drank Foster’s lager and wrestled crocodiles.
By 2008, the WWF’s Earth Hour had already spread like a cancer throughout the civilized world; now, in 2009, the Empire State Building will go dark. (Will the janitors get paid for the time when they can’t see to work?) The Great Pyramid at Giza, the Roman Colosseum, the Golden Gate Bridge, and other landmarks demonstrating the glory of mankind’s achievements will all be cast into the outer darkness. There will be great weeping and gnashing of teeth, as liberals everywhere serve their penance. Perhaps they will dress in sackcloth and cover themselves in ashes . . . dolphin-safe, never-animal-tested, free-range ashes, of course.
During this period of darkness, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM (your local time) on Saturday, March 27, liberals want us all to think about the misery humans have brought to the world, and how horrible we truly are. But that’s not all!
This event is a devious attempt to influence world leaders to promote cap-and-trade restrictions throughout the planet! Not to promote green energy sources, not to encourage development of new technologies, but to punish those who can’t presently afford expensive solar panels or who can’t wait for still-in-development wave power turbines!
As Cord Blomquist at openmarkets.org, the blog of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes:
They even had to fight the presence of a Wikipedia article on Human Achievement Hour!
(That’s what liberals call “tolerance”.)
Another OpenMarkets.org article by Michelle Minton sums it up:
Brothers and Sisters, what will you do to celebrate Human Achievement Hour?
In 2007, the World Wildlife Fund convinced 2.2 million Australians in Sydney to turn off their lights for the first Earth Hour. During this period, we presume the Aussies drank Foster’s lager and wrestled crocodiles.
By 2008, the WWF’s Earth Hour had already spread like a cancer throughout the civilized world; now, in 2009, the Empire State Building will go dark. (Will the janitors get paid for the time when they can’t see to work?) The Great Pyramid at Giza, the Roman Colosseum, the Golden Gate Bridge, and other landmarks demonstrating the glory of mankind’s achievements will all be cast into the outer darkness. There will be great weeping and gnashing of teeth, as liberals everywhere serve their penance. Perhaps they will dress in sackcloth and cover themselves in ashes . . . dolphin-safe, never-animal-tested, free-range ashes, of course.
During this period of darkness, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM (your local time) on Saturday, March 27, liberals want us all to think about the misery humans have brought to the world, and how horrible we truly are. But that’s not all!
This event is a devious attempt to influence world leaders to promote cap-and-trade restrictions throughout the planet! Not to promote green energy sources, not to encourage development of new technologies, but to punish those who can’t presently afford expensive solar panels or who can’t wait for still-in-development wave power turbines!
As Cord Blomquist at openmarkets.org, the blog of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes:
Tomorrow’s hour in the dark—to take place between 8:30pm and 9:30pm—isn’t something to be celebrated. Its organizers are not asking for people to voluntarily cut back on their energy use, but are using the event as a way to convince those in power to restrict our ability to use energy as we see fit. In short, this is a world-wide call for energy rationing, taxing, and the hidden tax known as “cap and trade.”
This isn’t just a threat to basic liberties, but a threat to life itself. Contrary to the beliefs of environmentalist zealots, affordable energy has made the world safer and much healthier. Those who still live without clean drinking water, safe means to heat their homes, or life-saving medications that all rely on abundant energy aren’t crying out for a energy-restricted world—they want to be plugged in to the modern economy.
Right on, Cord! And we can’t put this any better:This isn’t just a threat to basic liberties, but a threat to life itself. Contrary to the beliefs of environmentalist zealots, affordable energy has made the world safer and much healthier. Those who still live without clean drinking water, safe means to heat their homes, or life-saving medications that all rely on abundant energy aren’t crying out for a energy-restricted world—they want to be plugged in to the modern economy.
So, instead of turning off the lights tomorrow and lamenting the very notion that human beings live modern lives, we encourage you to celebrate Human Achievement Hour. Rejoice in the fact that your fellow human beings have mastered fire, created an agricultural world, built wondrous monuments, invented miraculous machines, and otherwise exercised their creative powers to make the world the great place it is today.
Now, one would think that the environmentalists who hate human achievement would be happy with their own accomplishments, like eliminating lights in major cities across the planet. (Riots and widespread looting expected, film at 11.) But no!They even had to fight the presence of a Wikipedia article on Human Achievement Hour!
Almost immediately after the Human Achievement article was published on Wikipedia, environmentalists began attacking the idea and calling for its deletion. (see previous such examples reported on NewsBusters.org). Eventually, the editors were convinced this week to delete the HAH article on the grounds that it did not meet “notability standards,” despite the dozen or so newspaper articles (see the USA Today article), radio shows on the topic, and blog references (including Michelle Malkin). Many environmentalist blogs and news outlets have noted Human Achievement Hour as an alternative to Earth Hour, but the reports are usually peppered with pejoratives.
The article was finally restored on March 27. Don’t be surprised if the juvenile envirofascists have vandalized it . . . after all, it doesn’t agree with them, so they have to destroy it.(That’s what liberals call “tolerance”.)
Another OpenMarkets.org article by Michelle Minton sums it up:
We have no problem with an individual (or group) that wants to sit naked in the dark without heat, clothing, or light. Additionally, we’d have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That’s their choice. But when this group stages a “global election” with the express purpose of influencing “government policies to take action against global warming,” we have every right as individuals to express our vote for the opposite.
If our Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th I plan to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.
Indeed, Michelle. Indeed.If our Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th I plan to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.
Brothers and Sisters, what will you do to celebrate Human Achievement Hour?
HUNTING ATHEISTS SINCE 1989.
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