Earth Hour is a 'psychological plague'

Have you heard this crap about businesses, maybe even entire cities, turning off their lights for an hour to "lower carbon emissions"? The global psychosis is scheduled to hit tonight at 8-9pm local time. Here's the best writing I've found on the subject:

I never get tired of looking at this photograph. It never fails to fill me with wonder and awe at the ingenuity of my species who, against all the odds, have carved these glorious man-made islands of light out of the primordial blackness. Whenever I am heavy of heart, I open up this photograph and stare at it to remind me that, somewhere, there is light and life.

With each passing day I become more convinced that the 'green' movement is actually a millenarian psychosis; a mental and spiritual sickness borne, perhaps, from some degree of civilisational exhaustion. Not just a belief that the end of the world is nigh, but an active desire to bring it about. And soon. Ours is not the first age to witness such pandemics of madness but, in the Middle Ages at least, there was the excuse of a near-universal poverty. In such a state of interminable plight, despair may not be the wisest response but it is at least an understandable one.

Read the whole thing. What do you want to bet that folks who leave their lights on tonight will be attacked here and there around the world?

UPDATE: not much Earth Hour action here in Small Town, Illinois. The neighbors across the street have their house lights off but the streetlamp attached to their garage is still on.