Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing not just the ‘western’ world, but humanity as a whole. Turn your lights off, but film it on your battery-powered smartphone.
We’ve had U2’s Bono flying in his aviation fuelled [avgas] jet flying around the world to ‘save the planet’ in the past whilst fighting for climate change.
Tonight we have ‘Earth Hour’ whereby the lights go out for an hour. How many are driving to the city to see it? Petrol.
The irony is I’ll be using electricity myself to cover the event, take photographs then process and publish them. All of this uses power too. Camera, laptop, phone, internet. They all use -you guessed it – power.
If one truly believed in climate change they wouldn’t be flying around the world in private jets fuelled by aviation fuel “avgas” but would sail a ship instead, without motor power, using wind power. Like Captain Cook did.
Problem with that though is that sailing ships still need cotton (from plantations) or other fabric and timber to build the sailing ship’s sails and for the sails’ mast.
Every time a climate change representative is talking on the news, they are using power for the cameras, microphones, feeds, broadcast transmitters and relays to the TV studio (that use a lot of power) and more.
I’m considered left, or left of centre in political parlance and will be attacked for this article no doubt.
“To truly combat climate change, we all need to take our cars to the tip. Trains (electric and diesel), trams and buses need to stop running unless solar powered. They all use fuel in various direct or indirect ways. Trains and trams need direct current (DC) electricity – from power stations to run and cars need petrol or diesel.”
Remember that the Gippsland country line was electrified to Traralgon for many years as the electrical infrastructure existed from the coal-fired plants in the La Trobe Valley. This doesn’t mean I support coal per se but demonstrates that everyone wants the services, but also want to save the earth. Society – we – can’t have both.
Therefore, the obvious conclusion is to go back to horseback, but even then one needs leather and metal to make saddles, stirrups and reins. That’s before we worry about the methane output from horse droppings.
Perhaps, we should investigate going back to the milkman and ‘slades’or ‘loys’ soft drink in returnable bottles?
How many people participating in tonight’s ‘Earth Hour’ will be filming it on their mobile ‘smartphone?’ How much power has been used today in charging that phone to film tonight’s Earth Hour? Will they use a solar-powered computer to upload the shots?
“No my battery is fully charged.” So how did your battery get fully charged?
Don’t forget the minerals that needed to be mined from the earth in order to produce your smartphone so you can film Earth Hour tonight and share it on social media? (More power used).
A true environmentalist walks everywhere – even interstate – and doesn’t use a phone that requires constant charging.
If one is truly for the environment you’d have to forego every modern convenience, from the motor car, mobile phone, internet, computer, public transport and flushing toilet. Not to mention your home’s lighting.
