Earth Hour

Alright, one of the fun parts about being a teacher is you get to learn while the children are learning.  We read different articles that are much more interesting as an adult.  One of the articles the other day just made me laugh though....it was about Earth Hour.  For those of you that don't know what earth hour is I will tell you.  Earth Hour is one hour where people around the world are supposed to turn off their power and electronic devices.  Some entire cities have begun to participate like Sydney, Australia.  The purpose being to show mother earth that we care about it and the effects of global warming.  We care about the damage we are causing the earth we live on.  Ok, in one year there is something like eight thousand seven hundred hours and we are showing mother earth how much we care by giving her one hour for all that she has provided for us.  We might as well have made it a minute.  I sometimes pray for more radical environmentalists and vegetarians.  Where are the vegetarians who kidnap the babies of slaughter house owners and eat them to protest against veal.  Where are the ones that dress up as a cow and light themselves on fire in front of McDonalds.....or how about the vegetarian who eats him or herself live on webcam in protest to eating other animals.  Where are all of the crazy environmentalists that want to bomb us back to the stone ages.  Corporate America has just bought the new age yuppie environmentalists for an hour.  We have become so complacent in todays day and age.  We keep on getting screwed over so much that we forget how good we had it.  Eventually we become accustomed to things being terrible so much so that when the time arises that they give us a little back, not only are we happy but we feel like we have managed to fight a good fight.  The corporate world even joins in and helps out with this new commercial event after knowingly smiling about the fact that after all the rioting and protest they only had to give us an hour to put a smile on our face.  In fact Nelly Fortado put on a concert using man powered energy so people could have a blast during Earth Hour.  Earth Hour could be beneficial if people spent that hour running bomb raids on power plants.  Instead I guarantee people are saying in towns..."hey have you prepared for earth hour?"  or "What are you going to do to prepare for Earth Hour this year?"  People go and buy a hundred candles to have fun and think that they did their part in helping the earth show that they care.  The earth doesn't need one hour out of your busy schedule it needs a decade or a century just to barely begin to undo the millions of ways we have raped it.  I know that people will say that this is at least a start but it's that same carefree mentality that lets corporate America have the upper hand.  By the end we are going to be eating chicken feed out of their hands.  At least we could have had Earth Day.  My friend said that that would be impossible to do because so much of our lives rely on technology.  It's not impossible we could live without lights and power in our houses for a week no problem.  Maybe our work places could keep everything on but if you wanted to show mother earth that you care then give it the respect it deserves.  If I was the earth and I found out that people were giving me an hour out of their whole year to tell me they care then I would be performing earth quakes and volcanoes with the likes that no one has ever seen before.  I know some people will get the idea of what Earth Hour is supposed to represent and they'll reflect on ways that they need to change in this hour...but they should do that every day.  Knowing what people are like though now a days I think that most people will turn off their lights for an hour and have fun with candle light and then say they did their share to show they care and go back to living the exact same way, not think anything of it until next years commercial Earth Hour.  This event is retarded in my opinion but obviously if you celebrate it Im not calling you retarded.  I'm just saying to use it in the way it was intended, which is to find ways to change your life to help out the earth.  In my opinion though it makes all of humanity look like inconsiderate assholes.  It belittles us as human beings and destroys what little self respect we had left as a species.....what I'm really trying to say is that I will be attending Earth Hour next year.  Hopefully their will be a concert featuring Fall Out Boy.  (For those of you who like Fall Out Boy I have only one thing to say to you....have some self respect)  Im going to rage against global warming in that hour while singing Fall Out Boy with a giant candle in my hand....hopefully by then they will have electronic candles running off nuclear power.   During the raging concert Im going to make sure to litter as much as possible which is what everyone does at concerts to say "hey mother earth I care."  Have you seen the grounds after a concert.  Could you imagine after a Nelly concert all the garbage that people leave?  Sounds like a great time...I hope to see you there.