They showed Earth Hour celebrations around the world on last night's news. In Greece they turned off several hundred spotlights around the various ruins, and the rest of the news stories showed similar world landmarks that have round the clock lighting running in the 10's of thousands of watts.
So, which is better for the environment; that we don't waste very much the other 8759 hours of the year, or that we didn't turn what we had left off for that hour.
It just bugs me, a neighbour who refuses to use CFL bulbs in their house called to tell us we needed to turn off our lights; meanwhile I can count on one hand the number of incandescent bulbs I have in my house.
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