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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I don't think anyone is foolish enough to think that turning off their lights for 1 hour is sufficient to make a huge change on the environment.
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Nope but a lot of people think that the very best they can do is buy CF lightbulbs, drive a Prius and create awareness by burning a candle for an hour a year, none of which do a whole lot when you do a total energy balance calculation.
I have faith that consumption will go down in the long run (because of market forces) but I also believe that we will burn every last barrel of oil in the process. I'd rather that we did something about it now while energy is cheap like building a bunch of wind and nuclear power generation capacity but that will happen in the long run, it'll just cost a bunch more 20 years from now.