Why Earth Hour is wrong

A percentage of people in Sydney 2% last year will turn off their lights for one hour.

The generators still run, even these people's fridges, hot water heaters, electronic devices still
run.
It is a bunch of people trying to feel good about themselves. They are supporting a idea which is trying to make the rest of us feel bad about ourselves and our current way of life.

Their underlining argument taken to the logical conclusion would be for noone to use electricity, no lights anywhere, not just in Australia but the entire globe. They would deny this but this mentality is anti-modern life, and for most people this means anti-human.
They want people to go back to the pre-modern times without electricity and without light (after dark).

Turn your lights off and go back to the stone age.
OR
Leave you lights on and enjoy your weekend.

I keep writing these rants as I believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

1. Life: The sanctity of human life, no-one has the right to demand human sacrifice of any kind, physical, mental or economical.
2. Liberty: Freedom from the use of arbitrary force.
3. Pursuit of Happiness: Be happy as long as you don't violate the first two rules.
   

Have Fun

Paul

Earth hour < Green vote

Hat-tip to Institutional Economics blog for this link to a discussion about Earth hour and its insignificance.

Lets jump straight the conclusion the irrelevance of 2% in the normal variance is actually less than the Greens vote in the recent NSW state election.
The Greens got 8.15% for the legislative Council (equivalent to the senate), slightly less than the informal vote. The informal vote is actually a good indication of the number of people protest against having to vote, as it is compulsory to vote in Australian elections.

So does this means that people who vote for Green candidates actually are not really green at all?

Am I going to mine the data from the recent election, get a total primary vote for Green votes in Sydney?
no, I don't have to time and the data is not available in a nice format.
Here is the SQL I would run if I could...

select party,count(*)
from election_results_2007
where area = 'Sydney'
group by party order by 2;

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Climate Change = Fear campaign

I am going to out myself, yes am I a heretic amongst my heretic leanings...

1. Who cares about a foreign trade deficit when the domestic economy is much much larger.
2. Who cares about foreign debt as it is about 10% of total domestic assets.
3. The claim that the Western economies are hollowed out of manufacturing, when it remains much larger than retail, second only to financial based companies.
4. Your job as a DBA is to make business tasks run as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Businesses will only care about block internals and x$ tables if it helps that process.
   

What is the latest outing? From the heading I am guessing you already know.

In NSW, Sydney, we have been bombarded by the need to follow the crowd, peer pressure etc etc and turn off your lights for one hour on Saturday 7.30pm. Not your fridge, heater, air-conditioners, laundry dryers, just your lights. Maybe they will take a satellite picture and send around the energy saver enforcers so that all conform to the new religion.

Here is a article to read about consensus.

I am frankly over the Fear and Doubt campaign being run to propel what was global cooling, then global warming, now climate change. I have no problem with the world warming up, my problem is the root cause.

My objections as a 15 second elevator pitch.

1. The sun is the biggest source of heat energy.
2. Water is the biggest greenhouse gas.
3. I reject that human related activity has any impact of the current increase in temperatures given the many such occurrences in the past.
   

Please read this post. We have a bunch of people who are believe (and most likely profit) in a delusion of a romantic utopia something along the lines of the garden of eden, but without mankind involved of course.
They push this massive guilt trip (like most other religions and cults) that humans have committed the original sin, in their utopia perspective, of being industrialized and technological rather than remaining in harmony with nature as a pure animal.

Now the underlining reason why I am passionate about technology and freedom to think and develop new technologies.

Technology will set you free and make you live longer.
Less than 100 years ago before wide spread availability of antibiotics, I would have been dead at 2 years old, one of the countless infants who died before reaching the age of 6. I asked my colleagues at a past workplace and 4 out of 5 would also have been dead.
I live because of human technological progress. As a parent now I can't imagine the extreme grief at losing any of your children to random colds or flus. You have got to be joking if I want to regulate and reduce living standards to conform to some deluded Utopian version.

A local TV channel run a hour long program about climate change. As soon as I saw the fake headlines I knew that was going to crap. 8 metre storm surges on the Gold Coast, ho hum. As I do on occasion I interacted with the TV and told it/them that sentence completely crap and switched channels.

Such fate d'compli, do your best old chap to reduce emissions and we might save the planet. (Yes I happened to see that last 10 secs of the show).
Nevermind that is the sun which is causing most of the warming due to increased solar activity and CO2 is not a major greenhouse gas (water and methane are). I even saw some experts actually talking about having to limit population growth again.
Who makes the decision who lives or dies or has children, you or I or some faceless person in the Department of Family Services and Planning?
Anyone bothered to read about about the demographic nightmare which is going to happen to China because of their one child policy.

The method being used by the people who are benefiting both material and otherwise is the classic crowd control/conformity. The scare tactic, with of course the guilty or scapegoat.
Look at big business, look how long and crooked their noses are, behind closed doors they secretly plot to rule over all that is good and just in the world.
Look at the inequality of the world. Why should anyone live better than the lowest common denominator.
We have a solution, we have a romantic vision of a green paradise, a garden of eden utopia where humans are no higher than other beast, we are all animals. Rid to world of business, technology, (and humans) and let Gaiga rule again.

Now a better show was WestWing, damn I can't believe I never watched this show until now.

Have Fun, live long.

BTW, if you want to comment, blog this post and link to it.

Liberty World Series

I was watching a TV show about the Waffen SS and how the defeat of the axis left the survivors of that army with nothing. Indoctrinated into the beliefs of the Nazi war machine, left with nothing when defeated, realizing in fact that they were the baddies. I have also been reading the Constitution of Liberty by Hayek.

The fight for freedom.

Liberty the freedom from arbitrary coercion.

The prize fight of history
In the blue corner is liberty in the red corner arbitrary rule.

1788 - US vs British - in the form of Imperialist Monarch
1815 - Allies vs France - in the form of Imperialist Emperor
1914-18 - Allies vs Germany, Austrian Hungarian and Turkey. - in the form of Imperialist Kaiser
1939-45 - Allies vs Axis. - in the form of Dictatorship
1945-90 - NATO et al vs Soviet Bloc - in the form of Dictatorship
1970-? - West et al vs Islamic Jihadist - in the form of theocracy dictatorship.
1970-? - Man vs Greens - Destruction of modern society, the removal of human environmental impact.

In between we have countries decimated by various forms of dictatorship taking the form of
1) People's dictatorship - reign of terror France
2) Communist dictatorship - Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea

The underlining theme is the fight against coercion.

It is a fight against a romantic ideal in the form of
1) People's utopia
2) Good and Just Kingdom utopia
3) Imperial Rome utopia
4) Some distant legend time utopia
5) Man as beast utopia
6) Garden of Eden Utopia
7) Heaven Utopia.

Do you get the drift. The aggressor is always looking at the past or the perceived or mythical past. Sometimes quoting holy books as evidence.
The defender (liberty) is looking forward what can I do now with liberty.

Have Fun

Paul