Earth Hour Sunrise Interview- unjammed

ACT on Campus President Rick Giles explains favouring Edison Hour over Earth Hour. This time, without the help of Earth Hour support staffer Oliver Driver jamming his way between words!

1. Symbolic Fail: Earth Hour used up more power, not less!

2. Awareness Fail: Initiative and technological activism are what we need, not the play-dead maneuver!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• earth hour
• act on campus
• philosophy
• Rick Giles
• environment
• capitalism

[johnstubbs2010]

What a twat.....

[thethe6]

Firstly, symbolism isn't about the practical effect of the hour itself you moron. It is not good enough to say that it symbolically failed because it uses more power. That is a practical complaint.

What the symbolism is actually about is showing that there are a bunch of people on this earth who care about the environment. This sends a symbolic message to government that the public is interested in the issue. Can't believe how much you missed the point.

[evilawakening]

What the fuck is an "islamist"?

[DaxxxNz]

@johnstubbs2010 Couldn't have said it better....

[johnyringoz]

@thethe6

Cut the shit man.

You sound just like the politicians that have been talking about this shit over and over for the last decade.

We already have the technology tto harm the environment less we just need to implement it.

Here's what the government needs to do: put words into actions.

[26aye1991]

@hspopple Doesn't change the fact that they are more pollutant then energy sources in NZ

@RisingStarPaintball Geothermal is the second largest source of energy in NZ, first is hydro, both of which are renewable

This guy is right in the first half of the video, second half he is a tosser, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Overall he is twat

[arrenco]

surely rick has been cleverly conjured by a rival party to discredit ACT? because it's clearly working, ACT delivers big on facepalms

[hspopple]

How many people here use petrol powered candles?

No, I joke. But the most common types of candles are made from beeswax or soy wax.

[1second2death]

Dumb ass why don't you look around I don't know were you get these ...uh facts from by the world has evolved from that so why don't you open your eyes and see what earth hour is actually about

[RisingStarPaintball]

one on NZ's biggest generators of electricity is geothermal, and hydro does have a big impact on our country... spoon!

[albusfr]

Is...is this guy serious?? I'm lost for words...Global Warming != the Apocalypse. Wtf man

[moonomatic]

The whole point of Earth Hour is to raise the awareness of our ever increasing consumption of non-renewable resources and to try and make a change so that this so called 'apocalyptic end of the world' never happens. The point is not to stop using technology. It is to find a better way of using the energy we have to promote the creation of new technology that will help us in the future when our energy reserves run out. Because they will run out. It's just a matter of time.