Posted on 03/28/2015 9:27:46 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the sails on the nearby Opera House went dark Saturday, as lights on landmarks about Australia have been switched off for the international climate change awareness campaign Earth Hour.
Millions are expected to take element around the world in the annual event organised by conservation group WWF, with hundreds of properly-recognized sights including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Seattle Space Needle set to plunge into darkness.
"It is almost like the point vanished," stated Tony Jennings from Earth Hour right after standing below the Harbour Bridge as the lights went off at eight:30pm (0930 GMT).
In Australia, Earth Hour this year is focussing on farming, with fears that rising temperatures could in the end damage the country's capability to make food. "In Australia agriculture is the most vulnerable sector to the impacts of climate change," stated national Earth Hour manager for Australia, Anna Rose. Increasing temperatures, increased pests and weeds, alterations in planting times, and far more extreme weather events were currently starting to impact farmers, she stated.
"Persons feel about climate alter as some thing that's only going to take place in the future," Rose told AFP.
"In this Earth Hour campaign we want to highlight the reality that increasing temperatures and a lot more intense climate are affecting something we all have in common—our food."
Enlarge Folks in Singapore on March 12, 2915 pose with a WWF (Planet Wide Fund For Nature) panda mascot advertising Earth Hour Earth Hour takes location from 8:30pm nearby time, and encourages citizens, communities, organizations and organisations to switch the lights off for an hour to highlight the plight of the planet.
This year it comes ahead of a crucial UN meeting Paris in December which is bringing collectively the worldwide neighborhood in an work to limit worldwide warming.
The initiative started in Sydney in 2007 but promptly went worldwide.
"More than 170 countries and territories have currently confirmed their participation far more than 1,200 landmarks and close to 40 UNESCO world heritage websites," Earth Hour head Sudhanshu Sarronwala told AFP ahead of the occasion.
These range from the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, the Acropolis in Athens, Edinburgh Castle, Massive Ben, Ecuador's Quito historical centre to New York's Times Square. This year will involve a glow-in-the-dark Zumba party in the Philippines, a coordinated candlelit dinner in Finland billed as the world's biggest, restaurant dinners by candlelight in London, and a energy-creating dance floor to light up the Eiffel Tower immediately after its hour-long sleep, mentioned WWF. Earth Hour's goal is not to achieve measurable electrical energy savings, but to raise awareness of the need to have for sustainable power use, and this year also to demand action to halt planet-harming climate change. "We hope that with every single light switch that goes off, the light cast on people calling for action becomes clearer and paves the way ahead for climate action," said Sarronwala. Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
What a perfect celebration for liberals - shut down civilization.
The Great Dream.
My wife pointed out to me the Bible verse that says ‘Men loved the darkness because their deeds are evil’(John 3:19).
So you wonder why these people like the dark so much?
Bears Repeating:
“This reminds me, Civilization Day is on tonight. I will turn on all my lights to celebrate the triumph of human ingenuity over ignorance and hysteria. I will give special thanks to the coal plants that kept people from freezing to death this winter when the snow covered the solar panels and the windmills were halted.”
Well said!
Some people have lost their minds...if they had them in the first place
Great idea
I was doing some spring clean up this morning and found 5 automobile tires.
Good point. Maybe some of the TV stations should go off air for a while.
That was like driving by a flaming car wreck.
I’ll be celebrating the electric company at 8:30 tonight.
I will start all of my vehicles, and my small engine equipment, i.e., lawnmower, snowblower, etc.,and let them idle.......turn on all the lights on my property inside and out.....fire up the bbq and cook some steaks and take a nice long, hot shower before I go to bed.
“eight:30pm”
Never seen it written that way before.
They’re trying to save the planet, who has time for quality control?
symbolic meaningless acts
Me either. I guess 8:30 must be some type of “ micro-aggression”.
Reminds me of 0-dark-30.
I’ll just go into my back yard and burn a few tires.
Its a start. Remember that when usage goes down, rates go up.
Great post.
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