Earth Hour or Human Achievement Hour

Click here to watch a truly great video

Advocates of restrictive global warming policies will be observing “Earth Hour” around the world on Saturday night by turning their lights off. CEI’s Michelle Minton has created Human Achievement Hour to instead celebrate mankind’s technological progress.

The question is: do we believe we need to restrict ourselves or can we progress? North Koreans celebrate Earth Hour every day (see the picture).

Where will we be in 100 years? Fearmongers tell us we are going to have 75 to 125 feet of sea level rise by mid-century from global warming, even though we had only one foot in the last century and ocean levels are currently not rising. They would have joined the great scientist Lord Kelvin in 1892 in saying, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”

Instead we suggest you watch CEI’s video and choose to believe in technology. (I’m personally rooting for thorium power—click here and scroll down to Government’s Winners and Losers) Top-down, command-and-control government policies and regulations will not give us new inventions. Capping carbon with a cap and trade scheme will not even make wind and solar energy cost competitive. Renewable energy mandates subsidize technological failures. Less governmental restrictions, however, can help to promote the future’s energy sources.

So celebrate Human Achievement Hour with us at Freedom Action—by leaving your lights on, playing video games with the kids, flying to visit relatives, or typing on your netbook—whatever way you choose to mark the many ways we in developed countries are blessed to be free from the tyranny of energy poverty.

Yours for freedom,

Julie Walsh

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