*snarl* *bitch*

[lilacsigil]

The whole Earth Hour business is making me extremely cranky. It's all nice and good to promote ecological awareness, but it doesn't mean much to turn your lights off for an hour, especially after Australian households have been so ferociously competent at reducing water usage over the last few years.

What annoys me the most, so much that st_aurafina thought I was being cranky about her art, is all the proud, smug reports about all the businesses that are switching off
"all non-essential lights" for the hour or the night. If these lights are non-essential then why are they normally left on, you bastards? The shop where I work has to have a light on for security (and insurance) reasons, but when the shop was built, we had the electrician rearrange the wiring of the lights so that only one relatively low-energy fluorescent light would be on overnight in the necessary area. It wasn't hard to do, took the electrician about 30 minutes, and has saved us a good deal of money over the last few years. Why is saving money and reducing energy usage without even having to change a single thing about your life or business practices a difficult concept?

Bah. Humbug. *kicks the planet*