It’s been posted before, but it is worth remembering what civilisation looks like. Democratic, free (and affluent) South Korea has the lights on. In starving, communist North Korea it’s always Earth Hour. They simply don’t have the lights to turn on.
In 1914 Sir Edward Grey commented on ‘the lamps going out across Europe’ as world war beckoned. This is the vision the fascists who have attached themselves to the green movement want to see. They want to limit and restrict progress, to keep us all in the same miserable darkness as the North Koreans. Making efficient and sensible use of energy is vital, as is managing the effects of climate change. That does not mean turning the lights out, it means researching and developing future solutions. That is how we’ll get meaningful change.
Orwell wrote of his vision of the future as a ‘boot stamping on a human face – forever’. Our future stamper would be doing it in the dark.
