Who's shutting down the Tank for Earth Hour Saturday

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Originally Posted by Parker

It amazes me how people take things so literal. Earthday is meant to promote awareness and to drive home the fact that one person can make a difference. Simply turning off your lights for an hour isn't going to ammount to much in the grand scheme of things, we all now that. The point is not to turn off your lights but to promote thoughtful discussion and self examination. If people choose to turn off the lights then great thanks for taking the time to at least think about it, it's step in the right direction if only a small one.

Exactly. The very fact that we are discussing it now is the whole point of it: awareness and discourse.

And for the whole light bulb thing, here's more entertaining proof that it does NOT use more energy to turn a bulb back on than leaving it running:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdu4wYu48uw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgM0N7GD5Ic