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For the past decade legions of the gullible have been signalling their eco-virtue by candles' glow, turning off the lights for 60 minutes as an offering to poor, overheated Gaia. It makes little sense, but promoters are delighted the faithful can still write cheques in the gloom

Bjorn Lomborg: 'If we really want a sustainable future for all of humanity and our planet, we shouldn't plunge ourselves back into darkness. Tackling climate change by turning off the lights and eating dinner by candlelight smacks of the 'let them eat cake' approach to the world's problems that appeals only to well-electrified, comfortable elites.'

Shock Image: It's Always 'Earth Hour' in North Korea: Electricity 'is the difference between the Dark Age and the present age'

More on Earth Hour here.

Earth Hour is back: Bjorn Lomborg: 'The cosy candles that many participants will light, which seem so natural and environmentally friendly, are still fossil fuels and almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs. Using one candle for each switched-off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction; using two candles means that you emit more CO2'

Carlin: 'Are these f*cking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the f*cking planet? I'm getting tired of that sh*t...I'm tired of f*cking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths'

Morano: 'People should abhor Earth Hour. Carbon based energy is one of the greatest liberators of mankind in the history of our planet...One of the most moral [energy] choices we have is coal fired power in the world today...Both solar & wind have competed with fossil based fuels & they had their rear ends kicked & no amount of subsidies or mandates is going change that'

'Earth Hour, the global WWF fundraiser that persuades the young, the naive and the scared to inconvenience themselves on Saturday evening. Enthusiasm for the dim-bulb stunt appears to have waned in line with climate hysteria'

'They start with public policy — the only force that can actually change how the infrastructure and shared systems work... The more we encourage people to think that change is about individual choices, the harder it is to get the real change accomplished'