Boycott Facebook!
Do you have an account on Facebook? I had. I deactivated it today, after receiving this little email.
This Saturday we are shutting off all of our lights from 8-9pm!
Why are we doing this?
If all Where I’ve Been users turns off their lights for one hour, we can reduce this year’s carbon footprint by approximately 22,290,910 pounds. That’s equivalent to saving 400,000 trees or preventing 8.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. WOW!!!What can you do?
Turn off your lights!Last year 2.2 million people shut off their lights for one hour to show their awareness towards global warming. If we can help to spread the awareness, we can become a part of a great cause that will help to preserve the earth!
Join Where I’ve Been in this Earth-saving crusade by visiting our page and signing up!
Let’s help fight global warming together and keep our Earth a spectacular place to travel!
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Where I’ve Been
“The travel industry’s leading social networking application.” - Forbes
On the website I feel Al Gore breathing down my neck.
When AGW infiltrates social networking I feel sick.
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Now you only need to boycott buying electricity and gas because the producers at least pay lip service to the threat of global warming. Then stop buying food for the same reason. If you go on boycotting everything, soon you will have a smaller carbon footprint than anyone else!
Thomas, I can see the possible connection between electricity and gas and global warming. However, I can’t figure out how social networking through the Internet could be heating the planet.
I will not be at home Saturday night, thus no lights to shut off. Should I ask my neighbor to go into my apartment and switch the lights on after 9 pm for a maximum effect?
Maggie, don’t underestimate the electricity used by Internet and all the servers connected to it.
Facebook are turning off the lights at their own building. How does that affect you? Had they shut down all services for that hour you would at least have some minor reason to complain, but now you just show yourself as a fanatic, boycotting Facebook just for speaking out. If you do that, be consistent, boycott everyone.
Thomas, now I get it. You want me to shut down this blog. You might have said so from the beginning. Then, on the other hand, it seems you enjoy critising me and the other bloggers. So it would be like shooting yourself in the foot.
That sounds hard. Does Facebook even realize how difficult that would be:
My microwave has a clock on it, which is technically a light. If I turn it off, then I have to reset the clock when I turn it back on. Do the LCD displays, like the one on my watch count as lights? I really don’t want to turn off my watch because the only way to do that is to remove the battery and resetting everything is a major pain. There’s also a little light on the power strip to my entertainment system. The only way to get it to go off is to turn the power strip off, but that would cut power to my TV which means I would have to also reset its clock when I restore power to the TV. There’s a light on the little button that opens my garage door. To get it to go off, I would have to unplug the unit, which is plugged into the ceiling of the garage which means I would have to stand on the hood of my car which probably wouldn’t be good for it. I also have motion detector security lights around my house, so I can’t guarantee that those will stay off the whole time because someone may walk by and activate them. But I think that’s okay, because as long as I’m not the one that activated them, I don’t think I should be credited for their illumination. Then it gets really hard. I’m part of a homeowner’s association and they have lights in the common areas that I can’t control, but technically part of those lights are mine. And since I’m a city, state, and federal taxpayer, I have partial responsibility for any lights they leave on.
Sheesh! I don’t think I’m going to do this.
“That’s equivalent to saving 400,000 trees…” Someone please explain this to me. My power source is either hydro-electric or coal. How does turning off my lights save a tree?
I will turn on extra lights on Saturday night to protest this nonsense. Emotion, rhetoric and scientific illiteracy are conveying us towards a new dark age. Shine a light to banish this darkeness.
If people like Al Gore have their way there will be many more hours of darkness and it won’t be voluntary. It be the inevitable result of insufficient generating capacity.
Should we return to the Middle Age? Why we? Why not leave this to future generations when Al Gore’s prophecies will have become reality. But what if not?
I have an even better idea on how to save trees: ban the Olympic games, ban Euro 08 football in Europe.
In the meantime, I’m planting Geraniums on my window sill. How many Germaniums are equivalent to one tree?
I would take 20 minutes for Al Gore to turn off ALL the lights in his humble abode.
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