Today marks the celebration of Earth Hour. A day in which millions of people world wide to switch off their light between 8.30pm to 9.30pm to call for actions on global warming healing. Started in year 2007, the campaign has garnered support from all walk of life as an awareness raising call by getting people to pay attention on the impacts of climate change. The rising of temperature due to emission of carbon gas has resulted in ice melting at North and South Pole, rising of sea water level that endanger the island states, the destruction of wildlife and natural plants, the uncertainty of weather and etc. It is about the survival of man kind rather than the Earth as many misconstrued. Earth has been here in the universal well before man kind and It will continue there even without the man kind. So, saving our environment is tantamount of saving our life, not the mother nature.
The question is what next after 9.30pm tonight? We cannot simply switch off our light in an hour once a year and claim that we have acquired the awareness and knowledge of loving our environment. More action-oriented and embedded into daily life style activities can be done. While it is good of having celebrities to appeal for public action during the Earth Hour, it is also right to let general public know the good daily environmental examples practiced by our celebrities, I presume. I am thinking aloud, if allowed that it will be more meaningful and wonderful if those who have signed up for the call of Earth Hour practice what they pledged.
Happy Earth Hour.
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