HuffPo: Turn Off
Your Christmas Lights
by William Bigelow 25 Dec 2015
According
to The Huffington Post, Christians should be
in the dark during Christmas – literally.
Huffpo
implies that Christians
should turn off their Christmas lights because the total amount of
energy expended by Americans for Christmas lights supersedes the energy use of
countries with lousy economies, as reported in a study
proffered by the Center for Global Development.
The
study, authored by Todd Moss and Priscilla Agyapong, quotes a 2008 report from
the Energy Department claiming decorative seasonal lights totaled 6.6 billion
kilowatt hours of electricity consumption annually in the United States. Moss
and Agyapong write, “That’s just 0.2% of the country’s total electricity usage,
but it could run 14
million refrigerators. It’s also more than the national
electricity consumption of many developing countries, such as El Salvador,
Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nepal, or Cambodia.”
Moss
tweets:
US uses more energy on Xmas lights than Ethiopia does for
whole economy. Maybe we shouldn’t lecture them on dams? pic.twitter.com/thmq9F4MxA
— Todd Moss (@toddjmoss) December 18, 2015
If
countries cannot produce enough energy to afford Christmas lights, perhaps they
should emulate capitalist countries a bit more.
A
study from the World Bank shows how lousy the economies of the countries
mentioned by Moss et al. are: Cambodia ranked 115th worldwide, El
Salvador ranked 105th, Ethiopia ranked 79th, Nepal ranked
108th, and Tanzania ranked 85th. Yet tiny Hong Kong
ranked 38th, with more than five times the GDP of Ethiopia.
A
series of questions for HuffPo: If Christians turn off their Christmas lights,
would that magically turn into energy for Cambodians? If Americans are supposed
to turn off their Christmas lights, just where should that energy be spent?
Does turning off lights mean no more Monday Night Football?
And
most importantly, just how far is HuffPo willing to go to target traditional
Christianity?
Just
asking.
Huffington
Post
Jonathan M. Tisch
is a blogger for the Huffington Post,
and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
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Blumenthal was a columnist for the Huffington
Post, a consultant for the Bill,
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& confidant, the candidate for the 2016
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chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor at
the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Common Cause, the International Rescue Committee, and the Human Rights Watch.
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The son of an impoverished Bedouin
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subsequently enrolling in the Royal Military Academy, Benghazi. Founding a revolutionary
cell within the military, in 1969 they seized power from the absolute
monarchy of King Idris in a bloodless coup. Becoming Chairman of the governing Revolutionary Command Council
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revolutionary militants across the world. In 1973 he initiated a "Popular
Revolution" with the formation of General People's Committees (GPCs),
purported to be a system of direct democracy,
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International Theory that year, publishing these ideas in The Green Book.
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director at the International Rescue Committee, and a director at the Center for Global Development.
Elie Wiesel is an
overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and a friend of Anne Sinclair.
Anne Sinclair is
a friend of Elie Wiesel, and an editor,
French edition for the Huffington Post.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and a lawyer for Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the candidate
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, and a parishioner at the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
African
American Religious Leadership Committee was an advisory group for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Jeremiah A.
Wright Jr. was a member of the African
American Religious Leadership Committee, and is a senior pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
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was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Trumpeter award for the Trumpeter
Newsmagazine, and is the acting head for the Nation of Islam.
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