Earth Hour ? What An Exhilarating Jokes! :-)

There’s one thing in particular that bothers me about Earth Hour - these people who switch off electric lights and then go and light up candles in a form of happy hour celebrations, and think that they’re helping to reduce global warming or climate change. Worse still and exhilarating funny, some TV stations did even switch off the lights on their news studios meanwhile light up the candles beautifully within their studios while advocating & talking about saving the ailing planets from global warming to symbolize that they are supporting for Earth Hour. ha ha.. don't they realized that by burning candles, they are trying to send our Miss Earth way to hell even at a faster pace? :-)

It should be noted that construction industry is also one of the major contributions to Global Warming! So, how does a government strike a balance between economic growth and preservation of envrionmental quality? Who Cares? Some companies just concern about income (monetary) generating rather than air pollution or Global Warming.. haha.. For some, ethics, morality & corporate social responsibility (CSR) is listed far bottom or even not in their so called Mission & Vision agenda :-)

The widespread practice of misguided perception of turning off their lights for Earth Hour and burning candles as a source of light is grossly misguided and actually contributes to excessive increased carbon dioxide emissions.

Yes, I know candles are nice and romantic but you’re taking paraffin wax, in the form of a candle, and burning it, very inefficiently, at a low temperature. This stuff is pure hydrocarbon - it’s a heavy alkane fraction distilled straight off crude oil. This stuff is getting so scarce that nations are prepared to go to war just to secure it, remember?

A candle flame burns at a low temperature, so it’s a thermodynamically very inefficient source of energy, and most of the energy released in a candle is wasted as heat, anyway.
Even if 80% of your electricity comes from coal and fossil fuel fired power stations, as it does in Australia, burning candles is very polluting and certainly very greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions intensive, even more so than electric lighting.

Earth Hour should be about doing everything that you can to reasonably, sensibly limit your demand for electricity - and we can do this every hour of every day, of course. It makes sense for everyone - after all, you pay for the electricity.

I guess I have a problem with the idea that Earth Hour symbolises something.
It might symbolise something, but it doesn’t actually do anything!!!
The only thing it symbolises is primitive society.
I’d much rather see people spend their Earth Hour doing something that really does count for something.

Instead of spending your Earth Hour bearing with an uncomfortable, dark lifestyle, use that hour to think about the things that we can all do every day to limit electricity consumption, that we will actually bother to do every day, that are compatible with the fact that, yes, in our developed first-world society, we actually use electricity, and we work after the sun goes down.


Quantitatively, this use of candles during Earth Hour is responsible for increased emissions of greenhouse gases. I wouldn't be surprised if the candle burning caused more carbon emissions than running a few fluorescent bulbs! As we all noted, global warming is irreversible!!! Every carbon dioxide, monoxide generated can only accumulated & generate more heats and accelerate global warming! Poor Miss Earth, hope you won't fall sick and get sick of those carbon emitted by those irresponsible mankind :-)