Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined Canadian organizers of Earth Hour in asking Canadians to turn their lights off Saturday night along with millions around the world.
But it was in fact a sign that the light is back. For Stephen Harper never celebrated Earth Hour, and you can be sure that Rona Ambrose doesn't either.
Gawd. You just can't teach old Cons new tricks eh? For there they are bombarding the airwaves with their grotesque Porky Action Plan ads again. Even though it's costing a fortune. The Harper government spent $21 million on major advertising campaigns under its Economic Action Plan brand in 2011-12, according to the latest annual report on ad spending. And even though we've told them those crappy ads are driving us NUTS !#@#!!
But Adam Winnick, an animation student at Toronto's Sheridan College, made a little video, using the words of the great astronomer Carl Sagan reflecting on the Pale Blue Dot.
And I think it's awesome...
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
But still we would destroy it. Let Stephen Harper and his Dirty Oil pimps torch our planet. And shame us in the eyes of the world.
