Wow, this is totally going to help. Will they be doing this every day?
Ann Arbor dimming city lights to raise awareness about climate change
For several years, Ann Arbor has joined others around the world in switching off lights on the last Saturday in March as a symbolic gesture to raise awareness about climate change and promote energy conservation.
The city has participated in the Earth Hour movement by turning off lights at city hall and dimming streetlights downtown.
Wait, that’s it? I even used 12 Foot Ladder to remove the paywall, and that’s all there was. One would think in the era of climate doom this would involve a bit more of a story, eh? I’m sure the city thinks they are Doing Something. If this helps so much, just turn them all off, or at least dim all the city lights. But, they’re right that it is a symbolic gesture, because that’s about all Warmists engage in.
Anyhow
‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights of the soul.
She is also part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
With the war in Ukraine prompting a push for ramped up production of fossil fuels, they say it’s ever more pressing to concentrate on all the good climate work, especially locally, that is being done. “People are almost tired of hearing how bad it is; the narrative needs to move onto solutions,” said Ms. Wood, 25, a sustainability scientist who communicates much of her climate messaging on TikTok, the most popular social media platform among young Americans. “The science says things are bad. But it’s only going to get worse the longer it takes to act.”
That seems rather doomy.
Some climate advocates refer to the stance taken by Ms. Wood and her allies as “OK Doomer,” a riff on “OK Boomer,” the Gen Z rebuttal to condescension from older folks.
How cute. Certainly, Ms. Wood and her fellow non-doomers are doing Big Things
Yet people like Ms. Wood, and her thriving community of climate communicators, believe that staying stuck in climate doom only helps preserve a status quo reliant on consumerism and fossil fuels. Via social media, she and her fellow “eco-creators” present alternative narratives that highlight positive climate news as well as ways people can fight the crisis in their everyday lives.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Activism, videos, “climate strikes”, but, absolutely nothing about modifying their own lives.
Our distinguished host quoted:
But, but, but, we reached and passed so very many tipping points, beyond which
global warmingclimate change was unstoppable and irreversible.The Artist Formerly Known as Prince!
North Korea. Winning Earth Day “lights off” competition for 25th year in a row.
We’re saved! Stalled trucks around DC eliminated masks and mandates!!!
No more bad weather for the Ann Arbor area-they’re saved!
Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights of the soul.
R U S S I A! R U S S I A! R U S S I A!
C H I N A! C H I N A! C H I N A!
Well its no wonder that these precious people are so terrified. Every snow storm is a CATACLYSMIC EVENT. EVERY weather channel update is a DIRE CLIMATE REPORT.
And RUSSIA and MOST CERTAINLY CHINA are paying PACS to spread weather disinformation so that the USA destroys their own country from within.
We could be 10x’s stronger than we are if we just all agreed to work side by side to convert to green while pumping oil and gas and or building Nuke power plants, but no.
The fact that they are END FOSSIL FUELS PERIOD. I DON’T CARE IF WE ALL FREEZE TO DEATH means they are paid stooges of RUSSIA and CHINA even if they don’t realize they are paid stooges.
Which is even more sad. They are destroying civilization so they can be ruled by the most vicious country in the history of our planet. CHINA.
Congrats to the ENVIRONAZI’s they have trully found their calling.