By royal command: Earth Hour

Toronto motorists were warned on traffic highway signs yesterday that lights in the city should be turned off between 8 & 9 p.m., Saturday, March 29 for Earth Hour. Here’s hoping that all would-be home invaders, pedophiles, rapists and burglars don’t drive. Lights have always gone a long way in keeping John Q. Public safe from criminal elements up to no good.

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And if there is any world-class city that should be well lighted, it is Toronto which counts more than 70 shooting and stabbing deaths within the last year alone. In the same era when the fervour of global warming banned Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, the world is being plunged into darkness. Only for an an hour and non-mandatory for now, but count on Earth Hour becoming a permanent trend. In Australia where Earth Hour already happened, only fireworks lit up the night sky over Sydney. Earth Hour comes our way somewhat by royal command. Earth Hour is the initiative of the World Wildlife Fund. Prince Phillip, husband of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II helped start the Wildlife Fund with former Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. (Aftermathnews.com May 11, 2007). Being a party to a world plunged into darkness is not the only sign of activism from this blueblood, who bears the title of Duke of Edinburgh. This is what Prince Phillip had to say on the subject of overpopulation:

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to overpopulation. (Deutsche Press Agenture, August, 1988).

By switching off their lights, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities across the globe are making a statement for so-called Global Warming aka Climate Change. It has been estimated that the average American produces about 20 tons of the major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (C02) every year. That might sound like a lot when it is lamented by your Al Gores, Maurice Strongs and David Suzukis, and Americans do have among the biggest carbon footprints in the world, according to this trio’s count. But the entire world emits around 27 billion tons of C02 each year, through transportation, electricity use, and deforestation among other things. (Al Gore’s household lights being among the other things). By simply doing the math, one soon recognizes there’s very little that any one can do on an individual level to stop climate change, which without all the hype is perfectly natural. A leading light on the global warming hoax in Canada is the website www.ADogNamedKyoto.com.

…:We here at A Dog Named Kyoto know better, much better. We know that climate change is natural and that human activities, including carbon emissions, really have little or no impact on global warming or (or cooling).”

The Canadian mainstream media boasts Canada is leading the way for Earth Hour with more than 20,000 people, 1,000 businesses and 50 cities having signed up so far. Masterminded in Australia, millions of people in Sydney switched off non-essential light for the inaugural 2007 Earth Hour. In Canada, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Halifax will turn off the lights. In Halifax, even the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission will be turning off non-essential lights on two harbour bridges, says Coun. David Hendsbee. “Everyone…is invited and encouraged to turn off their lights for an hour on March 29th at 8 p.m.—whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo,” the city’s website says. Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly acknowledged not all municipal buildings will be plunged into darkness during Earth Hour. Recreation centres, for example, will probably still be operating as usual, he said. Earth Hour was originated to raise public awareness about the link between electricity usage and carbon-dioxide emissions that cause climate change, the Associated Press reported last year. “Reducing the world’s emissions is a shared responsibility. Each city must commit to reducing its carbon output and every single person, business and community should take it upon themselves to participate,” World Wildlife Fund Australia said in a statement. Earth Hour will be expanded upon in Toronto with Juno and Grammy Award-winner Nelly Furtado named as the first Canadian Earth Hour Ambassador, and who will be performing a free concert in the city today. Organizers say they’re taking steps to make the show as “carbon-neutral as possible”, including powering the event with green, renewable energy, according to the Canadian Press. Meanwhile, World Wildlife Fund and anti-population royals notwithstanding: Don’t curse the darkness, leave the lights on.