The bigger picture. (It%26#039;s not about lights)? It%26#039;s not really about the lights.

Has anyone maybe thought about why on a Sat night during premiere TV hours and family time they chose to do this?

Families are together at home with all the lights on with tv%26#039;s, computers, sucking up energy while staring at the tv.

Maybe turning off the lights and other stuff builds some family time to share something bigger and better than staring at the tv, and gives the world something positive to share in rather than what B Spears or Iraq is doing this week.

It%26#039;s a change and a positive change for you, me, our families, and our environment.

It brings people together to share in something that%26#039;s bigger than the 4 walls of the room your sitting in. It has become an actual global event, but shouldn%26#039;t stop an just one hour a year.

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

No, it is stupid. And it really is just about the lights. 67% 4 Votes

Other Answers (9)

• We all sub-conciously do what BIG BROTHER wants us to do. It is all in the game of things. Our parents raised us with those ideas and we are mostly carrying them on in our life and actions. self 0% 0 Votes
• Its a good thought, but in all reality I think you are giving them to much credit. The same people you are talking about are the ones shoving all the doom and gloom down everyones throats why would they want you to stop watching. Good try though! So your going to tell me that using a minuscule amount of data to predict a global climate collapse is not ignorant nor downright irresponsible. Both sides of the argument use paltry data to overstate and exacerbate a situation that we truthfully can do nothing about. Since the beginning of time the earth will and can do whatever it wants when it wants, and man will not and cannot control it. To say otherwise is truly moronic. Why don%26#039;t we worry about something a little less out of our reach, well because humans fantasize and emotionalize every thing doom and gloom.
  
  Lets work on the school system, social security, poverty, crime rates, and other things more in our league before this nonsense.
  
  Getting cleaner is a good thing, but exaggerating it to oblivion isn%26#039;t.
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• Doesn%26#039;t take all that baloney to bring my family together
  
  thanks catso 0% 0 Votes
• You%26#039;re exactly right. Even if you don%26#039;t believe Global Warming is happening (in which case you should probly go dig yourself a hole), if you did it, you realized that you DON%26#039;T need electricity to live (huh!! what a concept!). But, only a very small fraction of the emissions-producing societies in the world actually turned off all electricity. And even in the cities that pledged to turn off the power, do you know how many people DIDN%26#039;T turn it off? You hit it right on the head when you said it shouldn%26#039;t be just one hour out of the entire year. Just this ONE hour of no electricity of what may be the smallest fraction EVER of cities, homes, and businesses turning off the power will have VERY little impact. True, the whole point is to raise awareness, but while you%26#039;re doing that, you could at least put a little more effort into it. 0% 0 Votes
• Your right. I think that everyone should turn their TVs and Computers off for at least one hour a day and just enjoy the company of their family. 17% 1 Vote
• Your right it is not about the lights. It is about the way we produce energy and the way we use it. How many power plants were turned off? If none, what did we save? Read Walt Patterson: Down with conservation. 0% 0 Votes
• No I did not think about why a saturday night was chosen. I agree with what you said. You answered your own question or what there another question hidden in your rambling? 0% 0 Votes
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