Ah, it’s time once again for “Earth Hour,” a day (actually just one hour) where slacktivists swoon over themselves and pat themselves on their smug backs for continuing the global warming myth. How? By claiming to unplug and turn things off at 8:30 p.m. today in their local time zones. For a whole hour! Squee! Funnily enough, they seem to tweet madly about it.
@tommcfly trending second 😀 #EarthHour x pic.twitter.com/NSPFa4gCoM
— Charlotte. (@CharileRose) March 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/khaela/status/315327337933725696
It's a truth universally acknowledged that turning all your lights off for #EarthHour isn't effective unless you tweet about it too.
— Lucy (@LucyB_Ry) March 23, 2013
How are you marking Earth Hour tonight? Tweet us a photo at @CP24 and we'll add it to an Earth Hour gallery.
— CP24 (@CP24) March 23, 2013
If #EarthHour think electricity will destroy Earth shouldn't they throw away their laptops and iPhones? Is that Tweet worth killing species?
— Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) March 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/AndyBold/status/315571134718418944
Prague did a great job today, on #EarthHour! pic.twitter.com/swOSCbg7av
— Denča (@DeniBartova) March 23, 2013
People only do #EarthHour if they can brag about how saintly they are. No-one does it alone or quietly #cdnpoli
— Ezra Levant ? (@ezralevant) March 23, 2013
Bingo. Evidently, social media isn’t covered under “unplugging.”
Something stupid we can do together MT @AP AP PHOTOS: Cities around the globe go dark in observance of 'Earth Hour' http://t.co/jJcvIKlGti
— Aaron V (@PoliticsOfFear) March 23, 2013
Switch off your lights for EARTH HOUR tonight between 8:30pm – 9:30pm https://t.co/2CZyHbEVYa More at http://t.co/Jl1h0dQCM9 love, yoko
— Yoko Ono (@yokoono) March 23, 2013
Oh Yoko. On the plus side, the annual event inspires awesome mockery. Sun Media columnist Ezra Levant starts it off in style.
So room temperature. Yum RT @MikePMoffatt: Sparkling brut my wife bought informs I'm to celebrate Earth Hour. http://t.co/9ZlOjz1TVe
— Ezra Levant ? (@ezralevant) March 23, 2013
#EarthHour battle: open fridge door vs. space heater. Go!
— Ezra Levant ? (@ezralevant) March 23, 2013
Candles emit far more CO2 than light bulbs RT @Plattytalk: suggestion on the bottle: bubble bath by candlelight.
— Ezra Levant ? (@ezralevant) March 23, 2013
Firefox falls for the slacktivist scam.
*Deletes Firefox* RT @firefox: Today at 8:30 p.m. wherever you are, let's turn off our computers for #EarthHour.
— Michael Deppisch (@deppisch) March 23, 2013
Seriously.
The hilarity continues:
Celebrating #EarthHour is fairly easy for liberals; they spend most of their lives in the dark.
— Michael Deppisch (@deppisch) March 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/jaycaruso/status/315578003876900864
Don't reproduce. RT @ascenso_fb: 8:30 Earth Hour.Turn off electric power for an hour and help reduce approximately 10.6% of global warming.
— Michael Deppisch (@deppisch) March 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/kesgardner/status/315576568472817664
https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/315472732894683136
Oh, tonight is Earth Hour? Time to get some extra lamps out of storage!
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) March 23, 2013
Dish washer loaded. Clothes in washer. Clean, wet load of clothes in dryer. Checked all the light bulbs. Yup. Ready. #EarthHour #TRADITION !
— Harriet Baldwin Text Trump 88022 (@HarrietBaldwin) March 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/LisainDallas/status/315547127008862208
https://twitter.com/withoutsrains/status/315586661453008897
Candles are made from refined crude oil and emit more CO2 than lightbulbs. #EarthHour #IsAntiScience
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/315583231032426496
Earth hour happens for eight hours every day in my house. It's called "bed time."
— Jason B. Whitman, OD (@JasonBWhitman) March 23, 2013
And on a serious note:
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/315575396844322816
#EarthHour pic.twitter.com/HOIVZjgcWN
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 23, 2013
Truth. But, truth his hard for slacktivists. It’s much easier to use your iPhones and iPads to let everyone know how awesome you are.
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