Citizens Action On Global Warming
January 30th, 2007 by SpaghetticodeHelp the the biggest citizens action against global warming!
The “Alliance pour la Planète” (national group of Global Warming foundations) is launching a message to all the citizens. 5 minutes for the planet : all people shut down your lights, television… on February the 1st between 19h55 and 20h00.
The aim isn’t to win 5 minutes of energy only on this day, but to alert citizens, medias and politicians about the Global Warning (which is also the aim of Global Warming Awareness2007 SEO contest), and urgent need to act.
5 minutes to help the planet is nothing for you, it costs nothing, and it will prove to the future president of France that Global Warming is an important topic.
Why February the 1st ? A new report from a group of specialists on Global Warming will be released this day. This event will take place in France (edit: but why not make it international right?): that’s why you must be involved in it to show how the Global Warming alert is important!
If we are all involved in this event, it will have a real impact on medias and politicians, and we are less than three months from the presidential elections. Please talk about this message on your web sites and newsletters
Remember, its GMT + 1 over there.
Here’s the official website, but it seems to be down at the moment:
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/
Cheers,
Daniel
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January 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Has anybody stopped to consider that global warming might be a good thing ? I for one am enjoying the warmer climate and if I had the time, I’d elaborate on several other fringe benefits. Even if the worst case scenario comes about and we make life on this planet unsustainable, well then we don’t get to “evolve/progress” long enough to colonise any other planets and fuck them up too. That’s good too is it not ?
January 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Rich.. has a point there on damage limitation through extinction…
How does this actually work though? How is it documented? How does anyone know you turned off your lights?
I like the idea, but what does it really achieve I wonder?
January 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Well, I bet if the power companies lose a few bucks then people will start raising eyebrows…
The goal is fairly simple, it just says that we the consumers want cleaner and more efficient power, and we can put a dent in profit margins to get it.
January 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Yup yup, and I agree 100% with the sentiment, I just wondered about how the effectiveness is measured…
I’m all for this idea, I’d just love to be able to see the results - I think it may be that the power companies accounting departments will be the only ones who will know how well this effort was co-ordinated!
January 31st, 2007 at 11:52 am
The amount of energy required to turn all those devices back on will far exceed the energy they would have used up in those five minutes. Power companies will love this.
January 31st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Oh that’s interesting… is that a certainty? How the hell would one measure how long we’d have to switch off for to make an impact?
January 31st, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Bummer. I didn’t think of that. We’re damed if we do and double damed if we don’t… or is it the other way around…?… Oh jesus, I just wanna go live in the wilderness, grow some veggies and make a few extra bux using a solar powered laptop. Who wants to start a commune? Preferably in Costa Rica.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Raya Ariella of the The Climate Crisis Coalition responded to my email to say that she didn’t think too many devices use a surge of energy to get turned back on so not to worry about it.
She did say she probably would have kept it to lights if it was her intiative, but they’re simply spreading the word on it I think.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Yeh!!!
February 1st, 2007 at 11:47 am
“The Climate Crisis Coalition” Have you lads seen “The Life of Brian” recently ? Because this thread ….!!!! Rich.. AKA “The united peoples front for the liberation of petrol heads”