We Did Not Participate In Earth Hour

We love the environment here at FITS.

In fact, we believe that protecting our natural resources (particularly in a tourism-driven state like South Carolina) is absolutely critical to our economic development efforts as a state – assuming we ever make any economic development efforts as a state.

That’s why we support the development of alternative fuels and alternative energy sources. It’s also why our house is filled with those longer-lasting alternative light bulbs.

We also support expanding funding for the Conservation Bank, even in budget times like this.

On top of that, we recycle (a little bit, anyway) – and we always cut those plastic soft drink rings so that dolphins don’t get their noses stuck in them … on the off chance that actually happens.

Yet while we love the world around us, the brutal truth is that we cannot stand many of the people pretending to protect it.

In fact, ever since a bunch of commie John Edwards’ supporters plastered our windshields with fliers telling us to use recycled paper (fliers which were printed on non-recycled paper) we’ve had some real doubts about our state’s enviro-kooks.

Also, the chronic crookedness of our state’s official environmental lobby has only added to our lack of trust that the messengers are really advancing the message.

Seriously, these people are even more corrupt than Palmetto politicians … which is saying something.

Their latest offense?

Fooling Gov. Mark Sanford into opposing a coal-fired plant in the Pee Dee with outright phony numbers, estimates of energy demand that even a fourth-grader educated in South Carolina’s public schools should have immediately recognized as fraudulent.

Of course Sanford’s opposition to the plant didn’t impact the debate – or at least it didn’t change the outcome of the debate – but it was yet another example of the misleading depths to which South Carolina’s “greenies” will stoop to in order to get what they want.

In fact, they’ve so soured us to all things environmental that we didn’t even participate in “Earth Hour,” and in fact are taking this opportunity to make fun of “Earth Hour.”

From AP:

For environmental activists, the message was clear: Earth Hour was a huge success.

Now they say nations have a mandate to tackle climate change.

“The world said yes to climate action, now governments must follow,” the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said a day after hundreds of millions of people worldwide followed its call to turn off lights for a full hour.

We hate to say it like this, but getting a bunch of anally PC governments and multinational conglomerates to sign off on a meaningless PR stunt for a full hour does not a revolution make.

“The world said yes to climate action?”

Please.

The powers that be said “alright freaks, we’re going to appease you and your hairy-pit, pot smoking legions for an hour so you won’t protest us, but that’s it.”

Now if “the world” cut its lights off for an hour every day, that’d be something.

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