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by the way, kingryan, if you were burning candles, weren't you making greenhouse gases anyway?

Err, Gore does follow it, he's not as Liberal as people make him look, and the fact is he PAYS carbon cash. No one else does. He's not saying use candles and stop electronics for ever. He's saying push money into conserving and studying other ways to survive. You can't run a company on Air power right now, you just can't.

And I shouldn't be on this computer right now (it's 8:15 in L. A.).

Look, i'm just saying that with China and India developing like crazy, 1 hour turning out the lights won't effect the ozone layer that much.

We know it won't, but it might put some activating pressure on the thought to conserve and help the enviorment.

Well, I skipped your "Earth hour". Because like I said - I'm not turning off my computer.

Da Masta doesn't even care... yeah God told us to be good stewards of the earth, but He also said for us to have dominion over it.

Meh, I think we work more on having dominion over others than the earth itself.

Well Earth Hour Is almost over now and this topic should be locked by a mod now.

It'll die on its own, or another discussion will fly up, or it'll die. Mods don't have to lock everything, and aren't always on to do so. So announcing it wun do much :P

Ya Armed Blade is right. We can still talk about the aspect of doing this even though it is already over.

ya i guess you guys are right about that, we can still discuss about it. Even though it is over now.

To what someone asked earlier -
'Doesn't buring candles release greenhouse gases as well?'

I think that burning one or two candles would release hardly as much greenhouse gases then having lights on...
I think that the main point of Earth Hour was to make people realise that there are ways that they can help reduce Greenhouse gases.

Earth Hour shouldn't just be one hour. Everyone needs to take the initiative and turn of lights in empty rooms, switch off appliances at the wall if you're not using them...etc...

What can you do?

I spent Earth Hour this year with all my light off, eating dinner by candle light.

To the third poster, Skipper, I believe: Being a vegetarian does not make the world any less polluted... lolz?

The processing and production of meat does, if fact, emit a lot of greenhouse gases and pollution into the atmosphere.
Cow flatulence is becoming quite noticeable worldwide (I'm being totally serious) and meat processing and packing plants typically generate a lot of waste.

You know, Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient truth" Is all based on models. We cannot prove that the polar icecaps would indeed cover the surface of earth. I find it hard to belief that people would automatically accept what was being told to them without finding at least a couple more sources.