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Mogit

Sorry Freddie you’re ‘avin a larf !!! when the States lead by example and stop wasting millions of £££££s each year then I may do something about it, til then forget it!!!

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Eponine

Well, I for one think it is a great idea and we will be turning the lights off. My children are extremely excited about it and realise all too well what the reasoning behind it is. Just a shame that so many adults (?) are so selfish that they just cannot give a damn about the environment.

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Rozel Aubin

#4 Eponine

Adults(?)do more selfish things than leaving lights on.

45 years ago I decided not to have children as it was obvious even then that we were sitting on a population time bomb. Ever since I read “The Silent Spring”.

Throughout the ensuing years I have been convinced that it was the right decision and constantly wondered why the majority did not think the same way.

But, of course, the more people born the bigger
the market. That’s what really matters after all. Go for growth until we outgrow everything. Think of the yachts we can buy.

In Jersey there is an added imperative to have
superfluous children. They have financial value as 1(1)(a)s. An inestimable boon – as one of Jersey’s renowned sons once put it.

I was also a very early adopter of low energy
light bulbs and only use filament lamps for decorating and shooting blue films (joking of course, modern cameras don’t need bright light).

The utility companies encourage economy so that
they will be able to produce less while still
relieving us of even more cash!

How much energy has been wasted conceiving and publicising this event? How much infrastructure could be damaged when the load all comes back on simultaneously?

Anyway, have fun in the dark for the hour. Let’s
hope the possible baby bulge caused by this gimmck doesn’t hasten the living world’s demise.

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FUBAR

Eponine No.4. Its quite clear you have been sucked in by all this brain washing stop climate change nonsense. How can you stop the climate. We do not control everything. It changed before us. It will continue to change after us. Having to many children is a bigger problem on the plantet. If your not part of the solution your already part of the problem. SNAFU!!

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Slawek

Funny thing is that tha very latest researches shwos that global warming is the no longer the issue – we all are going to have global cooling period. Average temperatures are dropping and this year ice cover gets significanlty thickey on both poles. Too bad I don’t remember the source to qoute..

Anyway – saving energy is always very good idea no matter what is behind – global warming or just money savings..

Regards
Slawek

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Adrian

May I suggest we switch off the CoM this should save lots of money, help protect the environment and get rid of greed!

People need to be aware the planet is in big trouble, mankind is hastening its own demise by this rampant, capitalistic, greedy, self serving culture. When will people learn they have no option but to change their ways? If they don’t they are either too stupid, too self centred, ignorant, or just don’t give a damn.

Unfortunately those who give a damn are just as likely to be affected as those idiots who are responsible for this mess. Maybe it is about time people were made to be responsible for their actions. Anyone who contributions to the continuing damage to the planet should be either taxed out of existance or stopped by those who care about the planet. There can be no half way houses.

Yes the population explosion encouraged by the capitalists in their desire to sell often useless rubbish in the name of a free market economy, after the second world war is going to severly threaten all the planets eco-systems. Remember nothing is above nature. Nature has a way of culling animals that have outgrow their usefullness or niche. Man is but an animal and will be brought to heel.

One massive volcanic erruption or meteorite strike will see to this. Unless the microbes get us first. Refer to the War Of The Worlds and you will see how microbes can get the upper hand over so called superior civilisations.

As far as I am concerned Jersey in its role as a tax reducer is contributing proportionally more to the planet’s ecological demise than other poorer regions who don’t have the money to waste on frivolous items.

“Someone” unfortunately your attitude of why should I bother is held by many others. It shouldn’t matter what others do but what you do. Only you can change you and only others can change themselves. All this passing the buck gets no where. Maybe when you are starving due to lack of food, because of climate change, you might think you should have done something. However by then it will be too late for you. How many people like you will then blame others for the mess they end up in, when they know in reality they are the architects of their own misfortune?

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Rozel Aubin

Adrian, I couldn’t agree with you more.

Don’t get me going on useless rubbish being manufactured just to sell.

Let’s start with childrens toys. Yellow lorries and tractors for boys, pink dolls houses and dressing tables for girls. Plastics made from oil and coal both of which are better used in other ways.

Visit a car boot sale and see piles of this pony
trap. No wonder having children is encouraged by our industrialist masters.

Then teenagers need new trainers, but only designer ones, every few weeks when the old ones get dirty. Adults are sucked into telly worship so the old model gets ditched for a 42 incher until a bigger one becomes the latest must have.

Of course you then have to buy the celebs’hard-backed autobiographies. Don’t read beyond the preface written by some other blood sucker in the feeding chain. It will be drivel. Just bung it in with the boot sale stuff or get it posted back out of the island to an e-buyer.

When I see this tat I think “All this rubbish has been shipped or flown to Jersey and will have to be sent back if it isn’t disposed of locally”.

Well, there is always La Collette. The sea is not a dustbin – according to notices put up by our rulers. Too right, it’s a landfill site!

Let’s hope that Adrian is right and that nature
will get its own back before Jersey has all its bays filled in.

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REG

How many tonnes of CO2 does the average human create/use during their time on this planet? How much land is utilised for housing due to the growing poplulation which is no longer green and absorbing CO2?
Eponine – my children are so excited!! Whoppee may be by turning the lights off once a year they may reduce their lifetime CO2 output by about 0.000001% – how selfish adults are to have had children that for many decades will continue to polute the earth ….
Climate change is just another industry making billions from the idea that it is something we can stop, climate change occurs with or without humans as the main catalysts of CO2 are the oceans/volcanos etc.

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Bovvered

Yeah so… didn’t do this, Didn’t know I was supposed to.. there was no mention of it anywhere prior to the event… weird, they are obviously very concerned.. websites like Jersey Events etc are there for a reason!

oh well, Doubt i would have done it anyway, like someone else on here said.. taking away an hour of my life to prove some climate change yada yada while the states use that time as an excuse to spend more money just seems pointless… let’s just get on with our lives until someone finds a sensible way ofsorting out these issues properly… “turn off the leccy for an hour”.. then who’s going to pay for all the hypothermia treatment as the island hits an epidemic :S!?

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joker

Actually it’s a well known fact that birth rates are dropping in the western world hence the pension and social time bomb we have on our hands.

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annie du feu

Joker (20, 21), From what I’ve read the pension and social time bomb are nothing. It looks likely that deserts are going to spread far in to southern Europe. It already started Spain has been seeing huge problems with lack of water and has acted by producing vast amounts of energy from Solar and Wind, they managed over 40% of electricity from renewable’s on a windy day recently. So the problem is where are the southerners going to live? and where’s our food going to come from?
hopefully the G20 won’t focus on finance as much as they do on climate.

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FUBAR

Ben du Feu 17. ice levels are continuing to reduce… No one is saying they are not. Ice came and went over the last 4 ice ages, some at a greater rate then now. Humans weren’t around then with research ship’s. Climate change is natural. Humans cannot control everything!!!

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Jambo

Electricity has become soo expensive, we decided to turn our lights on for just one hour!

The irony…

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