Manhattan, NY – In what it’s calling a “vote for the future of planet Earth,” the World Wildlife Fund wants every light in the world to go dark for one hour on Saturday [reported here by By VIN News] as a symbolic gesture to call for action on climate change.
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It’s called Earth Hour — and among the places where the lights will go out are the Eiffel Tower, the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the Pyramids of Giza and Niagara Falls.
And, for the first time in the event’s three-year existence, the New York headquarters of the United Nations will also go dark, a move officials say will save a whopping $102, a figure that fluctuated wildly when requested from U.N. officials.
Earth Hour — 8:30 to 9:30 p.m in every time zone on the planet — promises to be “the largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said earlier this month.
But critics say the U.N.’s participation in the event is a “self-serving,” thinly guised “gimmick” to sway public opinion ahead of the U.N.-led conference in Copenhagen in December at which world leaders will seek to approve a new global warming treaty.
“It’s like a lot of what the U.N. does — it’s a gimmick, it’s empty, it’s shallow and it’s not going to lead to anything,” said Thomas Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, a Virginia-based nonprofit organization founded by Oliver North.
“The bigger problem is that they’re doing this leading up to the conference in December. They’re trying to consolidate their authority to push their agenda.”
If the Ebeshter simply said “vayihi erev” for one hour, it would make it a lot easier and we would really know if global warming is truthful and we are obligated to take remedial actions.
While only symbolic in nature, it does bring more awareness to the issues of climate change and it doesn’t cost anything to turn your lights off for an hour, so what’s the big deal?.
My favorite part of this article is here:
“It’s like a lot of what the U.N. does — it’s a gimmick, it’s empty, it’s shallow and it’s not going to lead to anything,” said Thomas Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, a Virginia-based nonprofit organization founded by Oliver North.
The funny thing is, I don’t know how I’m supposed to take comments from an organization that is founded by a criminal who sold Iran the very weapons that Hamas and Hezbollah are using against Israel today. A man whose involvement in drug trafficking in Cost Rica has him forever banned from the country. What a joke.
close the UN who needs it its a waste of money hasn’t done nothing. sell it and make them pay all those tickets. what a fraud. who’s the chairman of human rights Iran or north kora maybe cuba. what a joke.
Instead of debating whether or not global warming is real and what the cause is, can’t we at least agree that energy efficiency and getting rid of the reliance on foreign oil is critical , and that we can’t rely on coal because acid rain and pollution are real. In other words, we can and should all get behind events like these and genuine conservation and development of clean fuels even if we can’t agree about global warming?
Motel 6 is shutting off their lights. Now you know the economy is in drerd.
Why does anyone listen to anything that criminal Oliver North says anymore?