Earth Hour. Yay! I Did Something Good! (Wizbang)

Let me get this straight: ONE hour out of 8760 per year, people turn off their lights, feel really good about themselves, then it's back to using eeeeevil electricity.

If this is not a monumental example meaningless liberalism at its highest level of hypocrisy, than it comes pretty damn close.

Obama's Clean Car Chimera: Battery technology is still not good enough to jumpstart an electric car revolution - Reason Magazine

Alan L. Madian, director of consulting firm LECG, told The Washington Post that even with "heroic" assumptions that by 2030 new electric cars would only make up 50 percent of new vehicles being sold and only 8 percent of cars on the road.

MyDD :: Are Moderates The New Partisans?

It is [Democrat] Bayh and co. who are actively threatening two pillars of Obama's agenda (and that's just for starters): cap and trade climate change legislation and a cram-down housing bill...

Earth Hour: A Last Stab At The Dark « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

There isn’t much point in continuing to mock Earth Hour’s resounding failure. I think that it fairly “illuminated” the futility of trying to find widespread support for something so classically anti-human. People like lights. They’re shiny and glittery and they make us feel safe and warm inside. Darkness, on the other hand, is something we really only want to see when we shut our eyes. What’s so difficult to understand about that? As if to ram home this point, Earth Hour had less popular support in British Columbia than the Green Party, a so-called environmentalist party against global warming. The consumption of energy during Earth hour was reduced by 1.1%, despite the fact that the party had a 9.4% turnout provincially in the last federal election. I don’t know whether that speaks to the hypocrisy of environmentalists [it does], or to the fact that voters have no idea what they’re doing.

At any rate, I think this proves that while populist consensus for issues as vaguely ubiquitous as global warming is a fairly easy sell, actually doing something about it is an utterly ridiculous proposition. The biggest problem I have with the climate change activists is in their absolutely fervent belief that we could do anything to change our world, even if we wanted to. Humans are, by the very nature of our global economy, a consumptive species. Asking people to change on a global level is probably the most delusional hope going right now. You may as well ask the sun to stop shining so much.