COME OFF IT!

Tomorrow (Saturday, November 4th), you should all follow the simple instructions offered by Come Off It, an important initiative organized by Dave Hampton– the Carbon Coach. Why? As was thoroughly and frighteningly documented in Al Gore’s film and book ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ planet Earth will be faced with catastrophic climate destruction — with corresponding effects on humans — if we all don’t start working together to reverse the current global warming trend. Carbon dioxide emissions are a byproduct of your exhaust pipes in your cars, of our power plants, and of countless other sources in our industrially developed society– carbon dioxide also happens to be one of the foremost greenhouse gas culprits in existence. The gist of the Come Off It initiative is to get people to switch-out at least one non-efficient light bulb in their house with an efficient one, and turn off unnecessary electricity-consuming appliances and light fixtures in your house– the result is what Dave Hampton refers to as the creation of ‘nega-watts,’ rather than ‘mega-watts.’ If enough people participate, the result will be astounding; but unlike the global warming debacle, it will be astounding in a positive way.