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DUBLIN, Ireland — From Rome’s Colosseum to the Sydney Opera House, floodlit icons of civilization went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. The environmental group WWF urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were.The campaign began last year in Australia, and traveled this year from the South Pacific to Europe in cadence with the setting of the sun. Several U.S. cities also planned symbolic blackouts or dimmings of monuments, including at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Read the rest here.  I really can’t get beyond burning candles made of paraffin and stearic acid as an environmentally correct and emissions free source of light to go any further. 

Really, WWF, if you were serious, you’d advise your acolytes to forget the lights entirely and go to bed at dusk, get up at dawn, and live in a one-room hut made of indigenous renewable materials without heat, air conditioning, or running water, and toil all day in the fields so that nasty diesel-drinking equipment doesn’t have to be used in agriculture.  Think of the CO2 savings as everybody once again achieves a global life expectancy at birth of 30 years!

I suppose it’s just another excuse for self-absorbed people to once again feel all superior about themselves without any hard evidence to support such feelings of superiority.