Time to turn all the lights on

From the Seattle station KIRO - Jesse Jones writes:

Seattle goes dark for Earth Hour 2016
Thousands of locations across the globe will go dark for about an hour on Saturday to raise awareness for the impact of energy use on climate change.

The effort is summed up in a movement called the ‘Earth Hour’ campaign, organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

The group is urging local families and organizations to turn out their lights and refrain from using any unnecessary electronics from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time.

The WWF calls it a ‘commitment to the planet’.

commitment to the planet? Give me a break. The planet is doing fantastically well. The very idea that we have the power to dramatically alter it is pure fscking hubris. The Earth is huge and most people have zero conception of just how huge it is. You could take the entire Earth's population, move them to Texas and the population density would be one third that of New York's Manhattan.

Feeling tired tonight otherwise I would go out to the shop and fire up the welder for a while.