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

@thecarpathian you are heating water unless you wash dishes with ice cold water and even then water purification and delivery runs on natural resources. Hard to imagine some of us don’t see a bigger picture. Earth Day is there to make you feel better. It’s as legitimate as valentine’s day just much more useless. 
Nothing you do or don’t do has any impact on the lifespan of this planet. Because you continue to consume even if you think you don’t. There’s absolutely not a microsecond of your life where you stop making impact. It isn’t a thing.

As long as we don’t maliciously destroy things, we’re good.

By the way controlling the population is absolutely not a terrible idea. Some places on this planet are out of control. The long term impact of that particular problem is much more severe than me keeping my dac and phono stage on 24/7. 

Yes, but washing and drying dishes by hand consumes less energy than a dishwasher.

Nothing you do or don’t do has any impact on the lifespan of this planet. 

True, but it impacts the health of the planet. Healthy planet, healthy flora and fauna.

Unhealthy planet, unhealthy flora and fauna.

Like I said, if enough of us do the smallest things in a positive direction, it lessens the impact.

@thecarpathian 👍

@audphile1 

+1 Too many people can't look at the big picture. You and @oberoniaomnia have hit on the world population issue. In the last 50 years, the world population has more than doubled. Do that again in the next 50 years and no amount of legislation is going to make any difference to the end result. The resources of the earth are finite. No getting around that. And mother earth will kick us out when we have exhausted those resources. 

Then there is the issue of energy consumption through data centers. They swamp anything that individuals do, and they are being built everywhere. I work for a power generating company. The company has agreed to take one of the nearly 1000 megawatt units off the grid and dedicate it to a data center in the immediate area. That is enough power for between half a million and a million homes. What is replacing that power on the grid? Windmills and solar power? What a joke that is. Should we have them? Until we have something better, they are a reasonable bridge. But to believe they are the answer is incredibly dumb.  

Am I saying that we should be wasteful? Absolutely not, even though some would jump to that conclusion based on a single statement. I do what I can to conserve within reason. 

I do what I can to conserve within reason. 

My sentiments exactly.