140 Balloon during Earth Hour?? WTH??

Heard that the earth hour organiser in Penang is going to release a total of 140 balloons into the sky during the launching of the Earth Hour, WTH?? Do these people know bout the real issue here? 140 balloons, my goodness!! don't they know how much of polution is that move gonna make to the environment? Do we really need to do all more polution in order to gain publicity and to attract awareness?? Ok mayb the earth hour is for global warming, but how bout the other environmental issues? animal extinction? can u imagine that, 140 balloons alone in Penang and as far as i know not just Penang alone, other places will b doing the same thing as well. Where are all these so-called biodegradable balloons gonna end up by the end? even is gonna fly into the air, but sure it will fall back on Earth again and increase man made rubbish to the Earth. And what if some of this balloons that look like a jellyfish fall into the sea and ocean after inflated? sure it'll look like yummy food to 'choke' and killed the endangered turtles and whales, is not like it never happen b4 duh....Biodegradable?? my foot!! it'll at least take a few weeks (fastest) to few years to degrade, can u be sure that during that period of time, it wouldn't be eaten by those aquatic animals?? Pity them.
To the organiser, the Earth Hour is actually very meaningful and infact i'm so proud n happy to participate, not just light, i'll even switch off other electricals and restrain myself fr using PC and TV (it's my life, feel like dying without this 2), however, pls do things right!!! switching off our light for 60 mins is not enough to compensate for consequences of releasing 140 balloons to the environment.......!!!

Look what u've done to us the children of the 80's Dr M...

Just read through Tun Dr Mahathir's blog regarding his stand n view on the PPSMI. Can say that i was quite impressed by what written there and really hav to agree with him, however i hav a question to ask him, why don't he think so when he was the education minister back in the 80's? why don't he hav this kind of idea and thought back in the 80's when he decided to change everything into BM in the first place? Isn't it already too late for him to start talking all this as he's the one that started everything in the first place? I'm one of his product fr his 80's admistration by learning everything in BM back in school. See what i'v becoming of... English? nah...able to speak but lots of grammatical errors, need to hold tight to a dictionary for all time vocab when trying to read through Twilight and so on... (most of the time give up b4 finishing half the book); BM? wow....unable to follow...keep on changing the tatabahasa fr time to time...use in broken style or the so-called bahasa pasar when going to post office, JPJ or with my indonesian plumber... sometimes i wonder if they can understand me... sigh....
So as u can see, i'm neither good in English nor BM thx to our 1980's education policy which was extended to the end of 1990's until it was replaced by PPSMI. Still the same question, Tun M, why don't u think like what u r thinking right now as what u've written in ur blog back in those day and hav we the 1980's generation to be sacrificed?