Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hide your d*ad girlfriend in a suitcase and skip the country day again?

I missed another one.

I always turn my main system off when not listening...  it's all tube so I only fire it up when I have a few hours to kill.  

My second system get used 80% of the time.  It's best feature?   The amp turns off 20 minutes after no signal from the source.  I turn off the source or pause my streamer and it goes to sleep.  

If a significant environmental concern is a turned-on amp, you miss the ultimate cause by a mile:

Too many humans on the planet. The one thing that actually makes a difference is not having children. VERY unpopular fact, I know. To quote Al Gore "An inconvenient truth". All the rest is window dressing.

I have no children, fly around the world, water my garden, eat meat (humans are omnivores), etc. and still have a better eco-balance than anybody with a child, who added to human overpopulation of the planet.

And no, I'm not a planet hater. Actually biology Ph.D., active in biodiversity field, on one of the IUCN specialist groups.

@oberoniaomnia I’m glad I found someone with a sound mind. You are speaking the truth. And the truth hurts.

If only some of the people in this thread who are acting all high and mighty look at the trash they throw away in a week.... It would surprise 99% of them. 

Not having children is extreme but 1-2 is plenty enough. Why are people having 9 and no money to feed the kids. But if you want my ultimate honest opinion, most people aren't fitting parents. 

It’s attitudes like this that are the problem, not the solution.

@thecarpathian You are speaking in idealistic terms that would never happen. If we all stop supporting a bad company, they would go bankrupt overnight. Sounds good but people would never unite. Unity is not humanity’s strong suit.

You are forgetting something. Humans are very bad people. Not all. But a lot of them. And by law of nature, it is 10x easier to break than it is to fix. So 1 good deed does not equal one bad deed. 

This is not a doom and gloomy mentality. This is a realistic take. Humans have been around for about 100,000 years and they have r*ped and killed for just as long. You want people to unite? You can’t even get 20 people in a thread to agree on a post. When was the last time a country was at peace and the government wasn’t corrupted?

You think I don’t care about using energy efficiently? Let me share a story. I used to live in the 3rd floor from 2018 to 2023. It gets really hot in the summer, And anyone that had ever lived in the 3rd floor would know, It gets stupid hot, 80F would mean the room is somewhere between 90-100F. I endured the heat throughout those years not because of cost, but because A/C is very destructive for the environment. So I never once used any A/C in that room.  Look it up. You might learn a few surprising things. I’ve seen how stupid and destructive humans can be and I no longer care lol. 

No solution will make a noticeable difference unless the population drastically decrease. Sorry for being frank. The best anyone can do now is be a good person to family and friends and maybe not spit gum in the urinal.