"Earth Hour" fizzles as gun control marchers demand light to go home

The great cities of the Western World were supposed to go dark last night, to show the commitment to all right-thinking ["left-thinking", shurely. Ed.] people to reducing the use of energy produced from horrible fossil and horribler nuclear fuels. Didn't happen, or at least, didn't happen much.

The Eiffel Tower was not lit up for an hour, but the rest of the City of Light was about as light as usual. The Washington Monument may have been darkened but the rest of the area around Capitol Hill was blazing with lights, in case of riots or terrorism following the Children's Crusade Against Guns. (More on that later today.) Canuck meeja today showed this picture of what they called the "darkened Toronto skyline".

The only building visible darker than normal is the CN Tower. The Rogers Centre, right next door, and the big bank towers are lit up as usual. And there, dear friends, you have the "problem" in a nutshell. The biggest users of power are the owners of the big buildings and public spaces -- governments and corporations -- not the millions of Johnny Canucks huddled in their dens watching Hockey Night in Canada.

Aforesaid average citizens have cottoned on to the fact that "Earth Hour" is just another expression of tree-hugging, progress-denying liberal orthodoxy.The "environmental activists" -- that's what they call themselves -- want us to cast aside the modern conveniences powered by electricity, and go back to the days of candles and campfires. Indeed, in Toronto there were a couple of candlelight walks "to raise awareness about climate change and, more importantly, the need for 'climate action'" (whatever that is). As many as 80 people participated!

80 candlelight walkers. What a shock! [Couldn't resist, could you. Ed.] Proof that the other 3,999,920 denizens of the Wormy Apple don't give a shit. Toronto Hydro ["hydro" = "power" or "electricity" in Canajan. Ed.] usually releases information on the drop in power usage during Earth Hour, but declined to do so this year.

A spokesthingy said that while Earth Hour "did spark a movement", the mission to reduce electricity use is now happening "every single day." So, she said, the fact that the drop in electricity use during Earth Hour has become negligible shouldn't be viewed as a negative. "People are making it part of their every day, they are switching over to LED bulbs, our appliances are more efficient these days," she said. "It has become a part of our lives. People aren't wasting electricity any more." Yeah, right.