... was a complete, thorough, and unmitigated failure.
Last year when we drove around during the witching hour, there seemed to be a few more darkened houses than usual, especially in the more upscale "liberal" part of the city. That's where we saw a few houses with candles proudly displayed in windows as if to say, "look at me ... look at me ... I'm such a wonderful earth worshiper" ... even though I live in a 3500 hundred square foot, $750,000, energy inefficient character home and I'm 55 years old with no kids at home.
This year, the city was most definitely ignoring Earth Hour ... in fact, it looked more like Hour of Power in Saskatoon. Cars everywhere, lights gleaming, and an unusual number of Christmas lights on ... it almost made one want to begin gift giving early.
Anyway, that's that. The radio stations and media in general wanted us all to believe that there was some sort of "movement" afoot. The only movement I saw was that of cars whizzing by on their way to hockey games, bars, restaurants, and coffee shops ... which were all full.
Saskatoon gave the WWF and IPCC a big fat "screw you" tonight. I guess it just goes to show that when it comes to Global Warming, Westerners still have their heads screwed on straight.
Last year when we drove around during the witching hour, there seemed to be a few more darkened houses than usual, especially in the more upscale "liberal" part of the city. That's where we saw a few houses with candles proudly displayed in windows as if to say, "look at me ... look at me ... I'm such a wonderful earth worshiper" ... even though I live in a 3500 hundred square foot, $750,000, energy inefficient character home and I'm 55 years old with no kids at home.
This year, the city was most definitely ignoring Earth Hour ... in fact, it looked more like Hour of Power in Saskatoon. Cars everywhere, lights gleaming, and an unusual number of Christmas lights on ... it almost made one want to begin gift giving early.
Anyway, that's that. The radio stations and media in general wanted us all to believe that there was some sort of "movement" afoot. The only movement I saw was that of cars whizzing by on their way to hockey games, bars, restaurants, and coffee shops ... which were all full.
Saskatoon gave the WWF and IPCC a big fat "screw you" tonight. I guess it just goes to show that when it comes to Global Warming, Westerners still have their heads screwed on straight.
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