Sunday, March 24, 2013

Belated

I think I may have missed Earth Hour this year, but I did want to commemorate it, however tardily, by citing Lord Byron's apocalyptic poem, "Darkness".

If he were writing today, Byron might have entitled his poem, "Hey, what if the whole world looked like North Korea, 24/7?"


The Green paradigm: to be accomplished without concentration camps...unless they're absolutely necessary.
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6 comments:

  1. IsophoroneMarch 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    You didn't miss "Earth Hour," you were just celebrating Human Achievement Hour!

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  2. IsophoroneMarch 25, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    You didn't miss "Earth Hour," you were just celebrating Human Achievement Hour!

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  3. RebeccaHMarch 25, 2013 at 12:24 PM

    I missed Earth Hour too, but since I was simply carrying on with my usual, electricity-enhanced life, it was no great failure.

    That Lord Byron sure was a gloomy Gus, wasn't he?

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  4. RebeccaHMarch 25, 2013 at 12:25 PM

    I should have said, my "carbon-fueled" life, as I indulged some sins against Gaia that didn't require electricity per se.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 25, 2013 at 4:55 PM

    Deborah said...But NK has...oh, wait.

    Richard and I were sitting at our post-gun show dinner when the news of Earth Hour flickered like a flourescent light. At least my the light above the stove was on.

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  6. Robert of OttawaMarch 26, 2013 at 9:17 PM

    RebeccaH,

    Byron was a great person; he incidentally wrote poetry, much of which I have not read, that of which I read I do not like.

    BUT, this poem of his, Darkness, is magnificent.

    Thanks for introducing me to it, Paco. I shall buy products in your stores wherever I see them in the future.

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