It was a dark and stormy night. Eco-activists, gathering for a globally coordinated assembly, organized near the world’s most potent symbols of nationhood and culture. The Eiffel Tower. The Sydney Opera House. The Pyramids of Egypt. The Las Vegas Strip. And the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
To draw attention to their radical cause, global climate change–minded radicals from some 4,000 cells across the planet effected a worldwide power outtage—plunging the planet into symbolic, carbon-saving darkness. During “Earth Hour,” sites in the District and surrounding counties as well as embassies for such environment-coddling nations as Finland and Canada saw the lights turned out. According to the Washington Post, the National Cathedral is still mired in the blackness of night, although that might be because it’s pretty bright outside today so they don’t really need to turn any lights on. I think.
How many jigawatts were saved during last night’s vigil? Impossible to say. How many planes crashed into the Washington Monument last night? That is far easier to say—for now. But this time next year, only time will tell.
