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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=779382817-29032010>There was a
recent Sierra Club activity wherein the proles were urged to turn out
all the lights at 830 pm local time:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=779382817-29032010>This brought back
pleasant memories of a game my wife and I used to play often on Saturday
evenings before my son was born. We called it Pioneers, or later, after
reading Willa Cather, renamed Ooohhh Pioneers. To help our
European friends understand, I offer a concise history of the US. In 1849,
gold was discovered in Taxifornia, resulting in bands of rapacious white people
charging across the plains from the American east coast, destroying everything
in their path like swarms of locusts. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=779382817-29032010>My wife and I wished
to emulate these pioneers by turning off or not using any technology that would
have been unavailable to 1850s proles. So, everything that uses
electricity, off. No phone, no lights, no motor cars, not a single
luxury. Young childless couple. What do you suppose happened
next? In all those Ooooohhh Pioneers games, it never
failed.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=779382817-29032010>We haven't played
since Isaac was born, but the Lights Out Saturday Night brought back fond
memories. Interestingly, this would be a perfect example of a principle I
call the Law of Unintended But Easily Foreseen Ultimate Consequences, or
LUBEFUC. Half hour after those lights go out, do let me assure you, the
outcome is as foreseeable as the sunrise. The couple is desperate, wildly
pawing at each other in the darkness, wardrobe malfunctions occur, birth control
devices will be difficult to locate and utilize because the damn lights are
out. Result: nine months hence, right around Christmas of 2010, a number
of little FUCs will come into being.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=779382817-29032010>The Sierra Club
reminds the participants to not light candles, for one candle is twenty times
worse for the environment than a single light bulb. But they fail to
calculate or even estimate how destructive for the environment is the birth of a
single little FUC, especially a modern white prosperous video-game playing
beef-devouring prole. They fail to calculate or even estimate the impact
on a young environmentally conscious couple who will be missing in action for
years if not decades, from their former activity, immediately upon the birth of
their little FUC. Environmental activism will be pushed waaaaaay down
on their list of priorities, which will suddenly have a large number of new,
expensive and urgent line items. Do let me calmly assure you on this
point.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=779382817-29032010>The Lights Out For
the Earth Hour exercise is perhaps the most environmentally destructive activity
ever dreamed up by any organization.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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