Fringe benefits of global warming
posted by saurabh in Ecofascism, Gee-whiz, Starry-eyed |Some of you may already be familiar with Earth Hour, an effort pioneered by the Australians to increase awareness about global warming by symbolically turning off all lights in participating major cities around the world for one hour. It occurs on April 1 (already a great day, now even better) of each year, going since 2007.
When I heard about this my first thought was - “Holy shit! Dark sky!” After all, who gives a toss about stopping catastrophic climate change when there’s the possibility of seeing a really spectacular starry sky? As I’ve hinted here before, I’m more or less committed to sidereal worship, and it’s long been a fantasy of mine to become Lord Commander of Earth so that I can impose just such a venture (viz., forced blackouts) on major cities. I mean, check out the pathetic Bortle Scale map of North America. A guy like me hasn’t a chance in this country.
Or so I thought! But, cloaked in the guise of “environmentalism”, I can advance my umbratory agenda. It seems that Chicago is already on board, and certain other cities seem like ripe targets to follow. If things continue in this vein, I may even abandon my plans to sabotage certain transformers on Walpurgis Night.
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One of the best things about going to Bolivia (I was just in Bolivia!) was that they don’t seem to believe in streetlights. Or rather they can’t afford them. Between that and the fact that maybe half the country is above 4,000 meters (14,000 feet), there are stars. Visible. It also doesn’t hurt that there are no planes. I didn’t see a single contrail in that country. I guess the international gassing-the-public conspiracy hasn’t made it that far south.