Earth Hour is Bullshit

This will be quick but topical, with Dirt Hour tomorrow. Turning off your lights for an hour is completely pointless from an environmental standpoint, and anything you could do that would make a significant contribution to lessening electricity demand would drastically reduce your standard of living.

The rising cost of everything is doing a good job of that already, and energy costs are the biggest part of it. Turn off all of your lights for the hour if you want, but I challenge anyone to convince me that it will make any difference to anything. The link shows base load and peak power output, and Earth Day is more likely to put a strain on the system when everyone turns their lights back on at the same time than anything else.