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Originally Posted by Uber Gruber
One word....GLOBAL WARMING.....damn, I mean two words.
Seriously though guys, try and arrange it so that you turn as many things off that you can. Even leaving something on standby is a waste of energy.
And hey, if you don't care about Global Warming, fair enough, bu
t do it anyway, for your kids at least.
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This is where the German language is truly superior for its ability to cram dozens of words together into a single monster. I've got one word for you: And the word is two lines long! Ah the flexibility!
Forget about global warming, don't you have something better to do with your money than spend it to run something you're not using? And your computer is likely not your worst offender. How about all those wall wart transformers you leave plugged in 24/7 that aren't powering anything right now. Well, they don't know they're not doing anything useful and are gleefully sucking money out of your wallet right now.
Even if the earth warms, as it was warmer around the year 1000 when Greenland was green, there is no disaster there. But shouldn't we act in our own best interest? Your income does nothing to make you prosperous. Your wise use of whatever assets or income come your way determines that. Conservation makes sense from a personal point of view and makes sense from a societal point of view without necessity any apocalyptic paranioa.
Mount Pinatubo in its eruption emitted more pollutants than humans in all of history, and did it in a couple of months. Any climactic effects were temporary. Apocalyptic paranoia is a phenomenon of left and right. For the first Earth Day, the apocalypse of the day was Global Cooling: coming of the second Ice Age. Chicken Little is always entertaining, no matter whose Chicken Little is squawking at the time!:rotfl:I remember my buddies saying "The election of Clinton is the end of the US!" Hold it, they're saying it now!
Most entertaining!