It's Earth Hour ... Fiat Lux!

So while the treehugging Greenies are busy sitting in the dark -- hey, it's Earth Hour so you're supposed to be guilt-tripped into turning off your lights for an hour or whatever.  Forget that, man -- I got basketball games to watch and homework to do!  Besides, I love my light bulbs heat balls.  Check out some gorgeous video footage of some brilliantly illuminated cities -- centers of learning and culture, places where people live and work and have better, longer lives because of technological advancement and human achievement.  

Remember this?  Notice how the most miserable and poverty-stricken swathes of the planets are the ones that have no lights?  

Besides, do you really think that sitting in the dark for an hour is going to do anything substantive for the earth?  The very idea is laughable.  See this factoid from that piece:

When we switch off the electricity, many of us turn to candlelight. This seems natural and environmentally friendly, but unfortunately candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights. Using one candle for each extinguished bulb cancels the CO2 reduction; two candles emit more CO2.

Earth Hour is really just an opportunity for more moral-pietastic posturing and self-congratulatory egotism on the part of the enviro-fanatics.  Let them sit in the dark.  The rest of us have better things to do!