If you are reading this, you should be quietly saluting the people on this
list, from Ampere to Watt.
They were some of the people that changed the world.
They are some of the people that took humanity from the darkness, from poverty, from scarcity, from the cold, and slowly through their efforts, their discoveries and achievements, brought humanity into comfort, convenience, and global communication. So that you can now sit in front of your computer or tablet device and read this.
Those people made affluence accessible, so that even the poorest people in Canada have luxuries that royalty could not have imagined 100 years ago.
Yes, the planet is where we live, but it does not give us anything that we do not first take from it for ourselves.
There is no need to thank the planet. The god
Gaia will kill you or support you, but that is entirely up to you, and Gaia doesn't care.
Thats right, we must actively build our homes, stock them with food, keep ourselves warm and dry, because the alternative is a short brutish existence. As the writer of
this article suggests, nature is there to be visited, not worshipped.
Earth Hour is the celebration of ignorance, poverty, scarcity, pestilence, and it's distressingly political. Worse yet, it's the wrong kind of politics, read
this.
Leave your lights on, and go see a movie tonight, because you can.
HAH2012
