Mar 28 2009
More Than Just Flicking Off
Between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm, the world was paying tribute to our precious mother earth. Earth Hour seems to be gaining more notoriety and attention as the issue of climate change becomes more and more crucial. Shutting the lights and reducing the power helps every bit, but it’s the awareness that is quintessential to further initiatives and activism.
It is naive for one to think that an hour of energy conservation can make up for 200 hundred years of infinite consumption and disregard of our external environment. The point of Earth Hour is to spread a message, one that warns of a serious and irreversible pandemic, which is inevitable unless collective action is taken.
Earth hour seemed silly to me. Turning off our lights is something that will go unnoticed. If people want to conserve; Good. But earth hour is silly. Nothing will change because a few people turned off their lights. Rather than turn out their lights, go next door and talk to the neighbor, turning out your lights and sitting in the dark seems quite isolationist to me and it is solidarity that can move governements and business to be more conservitive about resources, not sitting in the dark.