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Human Achievment Hour

Posted on Vendredi 27 mars 2009

Demain, les citoyens du monde sont invités à éteindre les lumières entre 20 h et 21 h, heure locale.

Coordonnée par le Fonds mondial pour la nature (WWF), l’Heure de la terre ou Earth Hour se déroule à l’échelle du globe.
Personellement je préfère fêter les succes de l’homme comme le suggère la vidéo du Competitive Enterprise Institute ci-dessous.

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Human Achievement Hour

Watch the new CEI video celebrating Human Achievement Hour!

The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 to coincide with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change. Anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings.

We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible.

Green and private conservation are fine. We have no problem with an individual (or group) that wants to sit naked in the dark without heat, clothing, or light. Additionally, we would have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That is their choice. But when this group stages a “global election” with the express purpose of influencing “government policies to take action against global warming,” we have every right as individuals to express our vote for the opposite

If Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th, CEI plans to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.

lagrette @ 14:33
Filed under: Réchauffement et science
Un peuple sans complexes d’infériorité

Posted on Vendredi 27 mars 2009

Il est rafraîchissant d’apprendre qu’il y a des peuples qui ne font pas de complexes. Des bonnes nouvelles d’Afghanistan par, devinez qui ? Le NYT ! Ah, mais c’est vrai, j’oubliais qu’il s’agît de la « bonne guerre » d’Obama, pas comme l’autre…

March 27, 2009

The Winnable War

By DAVID BROOKS

Khyber Pass, Afghanistan

I came to Afghanistan skeptical of American efforts to transform this country. Afghanistan is one of the poorest, least-educated and most-corrupt nations on earth. It is an infinitely complex and fractured society. It has powerful enemies in Pakistan, Iran and the drug networks working hard to foment chaos. The ground is littered with the ruins of great powers that tried to change this place. Moreover, we simply do not know how to modernize nations. Western aid workers seem to spend most of their time drawing up flow charts for each other. They’re so worried about their inspectors general that they can’t really immerse themselves in the messy world of local reality. They insist on making most of the spending decisions themselves so the “recipients” of their largess end up passive, dependent and resentful. (Lire la suite…)

Mateamargo @ 13:53
Filed under: De la guerre et de la paix andPolitique américaine