When Go Bazoodies! reported on the people who refuse to have children due to "saving the environment" (Did You Know Children Are A Burden To Earth's Environment?) well there are nuts everywhere with the neurons in their brains kind of scrambled. However, these nuts are sincere. Real. The believe in their cause and somehow you have to respect them for it - even if you think they are off in the wild blue yonder. They also did not have the backing of a Marketing Manager - someone who is self-serving and trying to make his reputation on another Bazoodie idea.
However, when something is run by a media firm, and you have an advertising plan and market expert involved, the nose says "something is rotten in Denmark". Such is the case with the new great environmental thrust from these absolute fools who decided that lighting one less candle on the Hannukiah (the name for the menorah used to light Hanukkah candles) will help save the environment.The Jerusalem Post brought this report to the attention of the public:
In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.
The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.
"The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle," said Liad Ortar, the campaign's cofounder, who runs the Arkada environmental consulting firm and the Ynet Web site's environmental forum. "Global warming is a milestone in human evolution that requires us to rethink how we live our lives, and one of the main paradigms of that is religion and how it fits into the current situation."
Cofounder Tom Wegner, who heads the public relations firm Update Marketing Media, spread the campaign via mass e-mails and through social interaction Web sites like Facebook and Hook.co.il. He said no money had been invested in the campaign, but it had already raised awareness around the world and made people realize that they have to consider the environment this Hanukka....
Yeah sure. And all the people who live in poverty in Africa and don't have electricity and use candles should just live in darkness. And hey, don't forget the thousands of candles lit in churches around the world every day! And oh.... ummm.. How many times has Liad Ortar or Tom Wegner traveled on a plane? A car? Yeah, right! Save the environment!If I have ever read a total and complete useless piece about some idea which was completely self-serving to those who brought the idea to public attention, it is this one. Maybe Liad and Tom should enter politics - certainly suits their temperament.
Of course, there are fools who fall for this unadulterated bullshit. Because there is a sucker born every minute, and some people need deep therapy.
What is amazing is Hanukkah is a holiday that has roots all the way back to the Roman Empire, and certainly in legend all the way back to Adam and Eve. It is a holiday who has a central core theme, "Chase Away The Darkness". And you know what? I will add "15 grams of carbon dioxide" to the air to renew the hope in our ability to chase away the darkness. Someone should give these environmental "activists" a lesson in non ego-centric activities. But then again, if it was not a self-serving idea, they would not have thought of it.
I could not agree more with the following in the article quoted above:
Rabbi Benny Lau of Jerusalem's Ramban Congregation, who is himself an environmental activist, praised the good intentions of the people behind the campaign. But he said the environmentalists should be trying to reach out to observant Jews instead of running campaigns that turn them away.Some things you just don't mess with. Some things should simply be left alone. Some things well... make my blood boil. Why? Because they are cynical, stupid, ego-centric, self-serving and unadulterated malarkey. Because they attract every fool and idiot. Because the great thinkers of these ideas take a very important and just fight reducing it to their own self worth, fame and ultimately add to their bank account. Some people, by their very nature, simply spread darkness.
"People in the green movement who have an agenda have unfortunately made it anti-religious," Lau said. "This makes religious people think incorrectly that anything environmentalist is against them. The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit. Tikkun olam [fixing the world] must be done by adding more light and not by adding more darkness."
Light Those Candles.
Chase Away The Darkness.
Bring More Light To Humanity.
Chase Away The Darkness.
Bring More Light To Humanity.
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