Earth Day

April 22nd, 2008 by admin | Posted in Events, Thoughts |

Okay, instead of writing a post about why I love Earth Day, I’ll give a post on why I hate it. Earth Day is a superficial method of making people think that they’re making a difference, while still doing relatively little. Oh, and yes, it’s just for a day. Not a year. That’s the thing about it, we should just be doing this one day, or one week, or one hour; We should be doing this every day, every week, every hour.

And we shouldn’t have to have some sort of gain for us to do this, because the real gain is our planet being healthier. Look at what happened on Earth Hour; We saved a ton of energy in just one hour. Now imagine if we were doing that at around 20-50% the level, all the time. We’d save at least enough energy to power over 459 million homes if just Toronto did Earth hour 24/7 for a year at 20% of the effectiveness of Earth Hour. Now imagine if the whole world did that. We’d be doing a great service to our lord, Mrs. Earthsberg, and a great service to ourselves. 

So, if you’re going to Earth Day, why not make it an Earth Year? It doesn’t take that much effort.