The global warming crowd apparently called for turning off lights Saturday between 8:30 and 9:30 pm to celebrate “Earth Hour.” Sorry I missed it. I must confess that I was burning carbon watching a movie with my daughter.
However, while capitalist, destroy-the-earth pigs like me enjoyed a Saturday evening, Watts Up With That? reports that “Earth Hour” was a stunning success in North Korea. Look at this satellite picture:
Actually, it is always “Earth Hour” in North Korea. The lone light probably comes from deranged dictator Kim Jong-il’s palace. It is easy to “go green” when you starve your people.
Alan Caruba comments on his blog:
For all those Green morons calling on us to turn off our lights Saturday evening from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM to celebrate “Earth Hour”, this is what it looks like every night in North and South Korea. The North is in the grip of a Stalinist dictator and the South is a thriving democracy.
Like fire, electricity is truly a gift of the gods. It is the difference between the Dark Age and the present age…but not for everyone. Much of Africa is in darkness. too. People who hate civilization and the humans who created it are welcome to live out in the wilderness or in some primitive backward country where they burn dung to cook their meals.
If America doesn’t start building more coal-fired plants, nuclear plants, and other generators of electricity, we too shall live in darkness when the sun goes down. Be warned, the present administration is doing everything possible to make that future happen.
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