An epidemic of OCD. Fuck, these people are nuts!

From Spiked Online (for the full article), via Greenie Watch: Many have gone over to the dark side – literally – and may never recover. In 2007, Peter and Sarah Robinson explained to BBC News how they get up early in the morning, but refuse to put the lights on. They open the curtains just enough to let sufficient daylight into the room to help them navigate their furniture safely, but not so much that too much heat escapes. In the dark mornings of winter, they see by the borrowed light from a streetlamp fortuitously placed outside their window. They own no television and their children are allowed to watch DVDs only on the weekend and only if the brightness control is turned down. Most evenings, the family spends its time in the kitchen in order not to have to switch ‘more lights on than necessary’ in other rooms. Mr Robinson’s Obligatory Carbon Doctrine started after he visited a prison with a group of psychology students. He noticed the repetitive routine that warders used to unlock and secure doors and he was lulled into performing his own rigorous lock-down activity at home. Because of OCD, the Robinsons have turned their home into a personal prison (4). There is a simple cure for OCD sufferers and it is up to us who haven’t succumbed to the Obsessive Carbon Delusion to save them from themselves. We simply need to argue for rationality and reasoned debate. [Either that or just shoot the sad and dimwitted fuckers. I mean really, it's like those ponsy middle-class wankers who buy carbon credits for their pets' farts - don't laugh, there was one on the front cover of a newspaper once - and then go on about the new imported car they've just bought or the upcoming skiing trip to Switzerland. Actually no, staying in the kitchen so you wont turn lights on is way sadder.]

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