marco: … It’s easy to turn off your lights for an hour on a Saturday evening. Was anyone inconvenienced by that, really? Did anyone need to change their plans, their diets, or their habits? Of course not. Everyone just sat on the internet for an hour with their 50-250W computers, using services requiring tens, hundreds, or thousands of 400W servers and countless switches and routers along the way, all in air-conditioned datacenters. And afterward, everyone turned their lights back on and continued their lives with no significant changes whatsoever. … read the rest here I must say that this “Earth Hour” thing is the most overrated thing ever because of what Marco mentions in his post. It’s easy to turn off the lights, but this energy-saving-stuff would probably be more effective if we turned off the whole Internet, didn’t use any cars and so on. But that just wouldn’t work, at least not without months of preparation. I did turn off the lights, but I would probably have done so even if it wasn’t an Earth Hour. Also, I was still playing World of Warcraft on my computer. And I use low energy lamps anyways.
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marco:

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It’s easy to turn off your lights for an hour on a Saturday evening. Was anyone inconvenienced by that, really? Did anyone need to change their plans, their diets, or their habits?

Of course not. Everyone just sat on the internet for an hour with their 50-250W computers, using services requiring tens, hundreds, or thousands of 400W servers and countless switches and routers along the way, all in air-conditioned datacenters.

And afterward, everyone turned their lights back on and continued their lives with no significant changes whatsoever.

… read the rest here

I must say that this “Earth Hour” thing is the most overrated thing ever because of what Marco mentions in his post. It’s easy to turn off the lights, but this energy-saving-stuff would probably be more effective if we turned off the whole Internet, didn’t use any cars and so on. But that just wouldn’t work, at least not without months of preparation.

I did turn off the lights, but I would probably have done so even if it wasn’t an Earth Hour. Also, I was still playing World of Warcraft on my computer.

And I use low energy lamps anyways.

Source: thedailywhat

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    katieschenk disagrees:...Um, no. I’m with Marco. Symbolism is nothing without effective...
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    Earth Hour, you’re doing it wrong.
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    Chili’s during “Earth Hour”...if anyone was even...slightest...
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    So I forgot to take this offline. Oops. Never make promises… Marco Arment has an interesting perspective on it (and he’s...
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    Marco hits the nail when it comes to Earth Hour and what I think about it. While I certainly did follow it, I am more in...
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    last part “It’s...time-consuming” any other reasonable person would say well then dont do...
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    Shh, ¿que tanto monitorean? xD
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    Alô, hipocrisia!